(PHOTO BY Jess Ewald)
The Mynabirds Album Release and Support tour for: It’s okay to go back if you keep moving forward – out on November 7
The Mynabirds have blessed us with a new album, due out this fall!
To support the new release, Laura and her pup Eero will be touring across the US in November and December. They will stop to play in churches, community spaces, studios, and even a zen center. Tickets are limited. All spaces are generously donated by fans. Each show will donate a percentage of sales to a local non-profit.
November 2 : Los Angeles CA
November 7 : Costa Mesa CA
November 11 : Denver CO
November 14 : Lincoln NE
November 15 : Omaha NE – LOW TICKETS
November 18 : Minneapolis MN
November 19 : Chicago IL
November 20 : Fort Wayne IN
November 21 : Cleveland OH – JUST ADDED
November 22 : Philadelphia PA
November 23 : Arlington VA
November 29 : Cincinnati OH
November 30 : Nashville TN
December 03 : Atlanta GA
December 04 : Birmingham AL
December 05 : New Orleans LA
December 07 : Austin TX
December 08 : Austin TX
December 12 : Phoenix AZ
IT’S OKAY TO GO BACK IF YOU KEEP MOVING FORWARD
Across an acclaimed career, The Mynabirds have reinvented themselves with every release. WithIt’s Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward, Burhenn strips it all down to the core.
The new record features three original songs alongside stripped-back acoustic versions of seven Mynabirds favorites. Recorded at 64 Sound and produced by Rilo Kiley’s Pierre de Reeder, Burhenn tracked grand piano and vocals live in the room, joined by musicians playing without overdubs, autotune, or digital instrumentation.
“I felt like I went through a complete ego death with this record — going back to how I first learned to write songs: just me and the piano, late at night, using music as therapy,” Burhenn says. “The record is imperfect, raw, and deeply human, made in a fast-paced, hi-tech time. I joked about calling it ‘AI Could Never.’”
SONGS
01. Different This Time
02. Velveteen
03. Ramona, Patron Saint Of Silence
04. Drinking Song
05. Good Medicine
06. Buffalo Flower
07. Disarm
08. Cocoon
09. Hanged Man
10. LA Rain
VINYL DETAILS
+ 12″ Transparent Blue Vinyl
+ Vinyl pressed at GZ
Out on November 7th via Our Secret Handshake. Available for PRE-ORDER.
BE HERE NOW (NOW) – RE-RELEASE
Speaking on the re-release of Be Here Now (Now), Burhenn says:
“Eight years ago, I went into the studio in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency and wrote a protest album, Be Here Now. Last fall (2024) when I was on tour during the presidential election — the election that would bring Trump back into office, the vinyl sold out of print.
I decided to do an 8-year anniversary limited edition repressing, Be Here Now (Now) — remastered on colored vinyl, with a previously unreleased song from the original recording sessions — as a fresh round of protest.
SONGS
1. Be Here Now
2. New Moon
3. Golden Age
4. Shouting at the Dark
5. Cocoon
6. Witch Wolf
7. Ashes in the Rain
8. Hold On
9. Wild Hearts
10. The Party’s Over
VINYL DETAILS
+ 12″ Transparent Blue Vinyl
+ Vinyl pressed at GZ
Out on November 7th via Our Secret Handshake. Available for PRE-ORDER.
GENERALS – REPRESSING
Generals is both a protest record and concept album. It’s fueled by decades of Burhenn’s political frustration and aimed at finding a revolutionary yet pacifist way in a world where, these days, it seems warring comes quick. Lyrically, Generals sings the voice of the collective frustration, then moves beyond that.
The album’s name comes from a Richard Avedon photo entitled “Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution.” The lineage of women that have stood up to injustice for well over a hundred years, women like Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf, they get their hands dirty. And Burhenn wanted to pay tribute to that.
SONGS
01. Karma Debt
02. Wolf Mother
03. Generals
04. Radiator Sister
05. Disaster
06. Mightier than the Sword
07. Body of Work
08. Disarm
09. Buffalo Flower
10. Greatest Revenge
VINYL DETAILS
+ 12″ Ice Blue Vinyl
+ Vinyl pressed at RTI
+ Limited Edition of 500
Out on November 7th via Saddle Creek. Available for PRE-ORDER.