PORTUGAL. THE MAN Release 10th Studio Album 'SHISH' Out Now
PORTUGAL. THE MAN
RELEASE 10TH STUDIO ALBUM SHISH OUT NOW
ON KNIK/THIRTY TIGERS
NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR KICKED OFF THIS WEEK
Portugal. The Man’s SHISH has arrived. The Alaskan-bred, Portland-based band’s 10th studio album, released on their own imprint KNIK/Thirty Tigers, finds Portugal.The Man on the edge of discovery - pulling the curtain back further. Across its ten distinct tracks, the band leans into discomfort, vulnerability, and the warped pop sensibility that only Portugal. The Man can offer.
SHISH represents a period of intense reappraisals for frontman John Gourley, both in music and in life and it combines Gourley’s most revealing writing yet, not only about the lessons he learned being raised in Alaska, but also some of the lessons he’s already learned raising his daughter, Frances, who was diagnosed with one of the world’s rarest genetic disorders four years ago. With SHISH, Gourley uses Portugal. The Man to sing about the more righteous world he has witnessed at home and that he now envisions for the rest of us—taking only what we need, advocating for others at every turn, and sharing the best of what we’ve learned to give everyone a chance to be better still.
SHISH Tracklisting
Pittman Ralliers
Knik
Shish
Tyonek
Kokhanockers
Father Gun
Last week Portugal. The Man shared their fresh rendition of KPop Demon Hunter’s global hit “Golden,” available now exclusively on Amazon Music. Rolling Stone wrote that their version “turns it on its head as a softer, acoustic ballad that almost gives it a new meaning.” Listen to “Golden” on Amazon here.
To celebrate the album’s release, the band are heading out on their North American headline tour bringing the new record to cities all across the country — including sold out nights in Portland, Los Angeles, and more. In addition to the original tour dates, they announced a limited run of underplay shows called ‘The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man’ that’ll feature rare performances from the band’s catalogue, covers, extended jams, special guests, and a limited run of merch in small venues! In early 2026, the band will head across the pond for a month-long tour across the UK. Find the full list of tour dates below to find a show near you - tickets here.
Portugal. The Man ‘Denali’ North American Tour
Nov 6 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall - Night 1 *SOLD OUT
Nov 7 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall - Night 2 *SOLD OUT
Nov 8 – Tacoma, WA – Spanish Ballroom (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man)
Nov 9 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
Nov 11 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
Nov 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man) *SOLD OUT
Nov 15 - Pomona, CA - The Glass House
Nov 16 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
Nov 18 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man)
Nov 19 - Denver, CO - The Mission Ballroom
Nov 21 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
Nov 22 - Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed / Beyond Hunger Benefit
Nov 23 – Columbus, OH – Skully's (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man) *SOLD OUT
Nov 25 - Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
Nov 26 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man) *SOLD OUT
Nov 27 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY
Nov 29 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner
Nov 30 – Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Lanes (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man)
Dec 2 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (The Lords of Portland Present Portugal. The Man)
Dec 3 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
Dec 4 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Dec 5 - Washington, DC - The Anthem
Dec 7 - Pelham, TN - The Caverns
Dec 8 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
Dec 9 - Atlanta, GA - The Eastern
Dec 11 - Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory
Dec 12 - Austin, TX - ACL Live - Moody Theater
European/ UK Tour Dates
Feb 23, 2026 – Dublin, Ireland – National Stadium
Feb 24, 2026 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Galvanizers
Feb 25, 2026 – Manchester, UK – New Century
Feb 26, 2026 – London, UK – The Roundhouse
Feb 28, 2026 – Paris, France – Elysee Montmartre
Mar 1, 2026 – Luxembourg – den L'Atelier
Mar 2, 2026 – Antwerpen, Belgium – De Roma
Mar 3, 2026 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013 Poppodium
Mar 5, 2026 – Hamburg, Germany – Inselpark Arena
Mar 6, 2026 – Cologne, Germany – Palladium
Mar 8, 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio
Mar 9, 2026 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
Mar 10, 2026 – Warsaw, Poland – Klub Stodola
Mar 11, 2026 – Prague, Czech Republic – ARCHA+
Mar 13, 2026 – Milan, Italy – Fabrique
Mar 14, 2026 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Les Docks
Mar 15, 2026 – Zurich, Switzerland – KOMPLEX 457
Mar 17, 2026 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer
SHISH Bio
John Gourley never went hunting with his father. Raised in and outside of assorted small towns on the fringe of the Alaskan wilderness, Gourley certainly knew how to handle his gun, even as a kid—a way of life and survival, an inheritance from two parents who had moved to the state to belong to its woods. Childhood friends certainly had hunting stories, and Gourley had been mushing with his parents, John and Jennifer, until he almost lost his ears from frostbite. But hunting? No.
When Gourley was 10, though, a massive moose shuffled through the snow in their yard as father and son ate lunch. “Hey, Johnny, do you want to go hunting today?” his dad asked, the young John responding with the enthusiastic assent of overdue expectation. They suited up for the winter and tracked the moose through the snow, watching it a long time as it slowly chewed some bark. A cycle began: His father would raise his rifle, say “Johnny, are you sure?”, and then lower the gun, despite his son’s assurance that he was indeed old enough to watch this mighty animal fall. They never took a shot that day. Instead, older John Gourley taught little John Gourley a lesson—they had food in the refrigerator and money to buy more if needed. This moose should live, so that others may someday survive. Take what you need, and get on with your life.
That is the spirit that suffuses SHISH, the 10th album from Gourley’s band, Portugal. The Man, and the first he’s made not only since leaving Atlantic Records to start a label of his own, KNIK, but also since completing his handicap-accessible home studio in Oregon. The first Portugal. The Man album since completing the bulk of 2023’s Chris Black Changed My Life four years ago, SHISH represents a period of intense reappraisals for Gourley, both in music and in life. Where Chris Black featured a sprawling cast of bandmates and special guests, SHISH was built with a minimal cast at home. And it combines Gourley’s most revealing writing yet, not only about the lessons he learned being raised in Alaska, but also some of the lessons he’s already learned raising his daughter, Frances, who was diagnosed with one of the world’s rarest genetic disorders four years ago. On SHISH, Portugal. The Man’s world gets smaller. Gourley’s musical vision, however, has perhaps never been grander.
When Gourley was considering his major-label exit sometime last year, he started asking around about potential producers. Portugal. The Man had worked with some absolute titans, like Danger Mouse, Jeff Bhasker, and even Mike D. But when an old friend suggested he check out this kid named Kane Ritchotte, a Los Angeles native whose résumé had quickly grown to include work with Blake Mills and Miley Cyrus, Gourley could only laugh. More than a decade earlier, when Ritchotte was still a teenager, he slipped briefly into Portugal. The Man’s touring lineup, a fill-in drummer in an emergency situation. He hadn’t really known the songs, but Gourley had always admired his enthusiasm and commitment. He called Ritchotte and invited him to Oregon, where they had no musical agenda other than following Gourley’s self-proclaimed ADHD into whatever musical direction it may lead. The pair made SHISH—played almost entirely by Gourley and Ritchotte, some help on horns and background vocals and even a little rapping from Zoe Manville notwithstanding—largely that way.
In January, when they were still very locked into shaping the sound of SHISH, Gourley and Ritchotte flew to Alaska to play two benefits for the restoration of a Sitka clan house, named one of the country’s most endangered historic places, and just one of many projects which Portugal. The Man’s foundation, Pass The Mic, supports. The band launched the organization in 2019 and have raised and donated over a million dollars to communities of Indigenous Peoples in the years since, while partnering with local Tribes to raise awareness at every PTM show.
Seeing his home through the eyes of someone who had never been, Gourley came back to Oregon and wrote songs that reflected the lessons of his upbringing, songs that advocated for ways of life that most Americans might know at best from reality TV. There was the image of his mother, up early in the blinding snow to fix a generator so her kids could watch cartoons, at the center of “Tyonek,” a testament to resilience so engrained it lasts a lifetime. And there is, of course, opener and first single “Denali,” where the state’s great sign of encroaching fall—the beautiful fireweed—signals instead the stirring of a revolution. “Oh no kings, or master over me, marching towards a guillotine,” Gourley cheerily sings, a big beat bouncing beneath him. “Pittman Ralliers” bursts open as a bona fide piece of thrash metal, belligerent and urgent and technical, while finale “Father Gun” squeezes Naked City, Queen, Pink Floyd, and maybe a little glam metal into a five-minute prog opus.
But Portugal. The Man’s long-standing center—inclusive and expansive pop, rooted in soul and psychedelia and sincerity—holds here, too. “Tanana” is a shape-shifting beauty about pushing off the weight of the world, about making love and sharing laughs even as bad news mounts outside. Portugal. The Man has rarely sounded so sweet and dreamy as at the start of “Knik,” but its life-affirming coda will inevitably arrive as a complete surprise, a heroic guitar solo wedged between a chorus about the pox of industrial society. And “Mush” is a breathless tale of life on the edge of the wilderness, the song moving with the same speed and wonder and unpredictability as guiding a team of dogs through the woods. End to end, SHISH embodies the energy of exploration, of the possibilities of a new frontier being opened to imagination.
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