Shakey Graves
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Fri May 9, 2025 - 8:00 PM
Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
Shakey Graves Dates
Sat Mar 29, 2025 - 8:00 PM
Golden State Theatre, Monterey, CA
Tue Apr 29, 2025 - 8:00 PM
The Civic Theatre, New Orleans, LA
Tue May 6, 2025 - 7:30 PM
The NorVa, Norfolk, VA
Sun May 11, 2025 - 8:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, Louisville, KY

Shakey Graves Biography

Back in December 2017, Shakey Graves proclaimed on his Twitter page, “Next album. New sound. Sell your suspenders.” The tweet was tongue-in-cheek, but Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the Austin native who’s been plying his trade as Shakey Graves since 2007, was making a dead-serious point about his latest album, Can’t Wake Up (Dualtone, out May 4). This ambitious, audacious work heralds an artistic metamorphosis for the 30-year-old veteran, whose risk-taking in painting outside the lines has been rewarded tenfold. “This record is the most I’ve ever intentionally worked on a project, musically speaking, in terms of the scope of it and how much thought went into it,” he says. “It’s a dense album; there’s a lot of information going on.”

That is not a hyperbolic boast. From one moment to the next, Can’t Wake Up veers from the inevitable to the revelatory, its thirteen songs teeming with jarring musical and thematic collisions and thrillingly seamless intersections, gnarly psychological hornswoggles...

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