Worriers Announce Final Tour Dates
Worriers Announce Final Tour Dates with support from Tiny Stills
and Ricky
New album Trust Your Gut out now on Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Stream: Trust Your Gut on All Digital Platforms
Watch: "Trust Your Gut" video at YouTube
Worriers are announcing their final tour dates. The band will play farewell shows on West Coast with Tiny Stills and Ricky. The upcoming tour will include shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle and Portland.
Information on tickets can be found on Worriers website and a full listing of dates can be found below.
The band's Lauren Denitzio says:
After five albums, two EPs, and countless tours across three continents, I’m wrapping up Worriers as a project. I love so much of what goes into making music, but if you’ve been following along, Worriers has been thrown a lot of curveballs over the years. With ever-changing goal posts, the economics of touring, and the diminishing returns of social media, I’m just not having fun anymore.
I’m still recovering from burnout and need to shake up the creative snow globe of my life. I certainly hope that I tour again, but I want to do other things too like write an EP with friends for fun, produce someone else’s record, write songs for other people, and travel more without having to play shows to get there. If you have ideas for any of that, you know how to find me.
Thank you to everyone who wrote on these records, got on stage with me, believed in my songs, and gave me too many opportunities to count. I’ve met some of the best people I could ever hope to know through playing music, and I’ll never take that part for granted.
Worriers are playing shows in support of their acclaimed 2023 albums Warm Blanket and Trust Your Gut out now on Ernest Jenning Record Co. (order). The album was praised by writers at NPR, Paste Magazine, Flood Magazine, Stereogum, Under The Radar, Brooklyn Vegan, Bandcamp and many more.
The songs featured on Trust Your Gut are part of an unapologetic journey to self-acceptance and each have a distinctive sound all their own. On "Top 5," bold guitars and a Hammond organ wrestle with the victors and villains of the pandemic years. In contrast, the stripped down, indie-rock reflection “Cloudy and 55” quietly longs for the comfort of home while building independence. On the track Lauren Denitzio's voice sounds as simultaneously comforting and devastating as ever.
For the better part of a decade, Worriers have used their own brand of punk-adjacent indie rock to tell stories of heartbreak, gender expression, identity, and love. Trust Your Gut is the band's first studio album in years and features band members Atom Willard (Against Me!, Social Distortion), Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady), Frank Piegaro and Cayetana’s Allegra Anka. The album was self-produced by songwriter Lauren Denitzio and is a pivotal release demonstrating the true depth and complexity of their career with the band.
Worriers became Denitzio’s main focus after the wake-up call of open-heart surgery at just 25 years old. The event shook them into leaving a toxic creative partnership and starting a band that could evolve along with them. That priority takes center stage on Trust Your Gut, as Denitzio’s 2019 move from the East Coast to Los Angeles found them collaborating with Atom Willard (Against Me!, Social Distortion) as a fun exercise, only to realize they had started writing the next album together.
The sonic goals for the album led to the addition of Denitzio’s friend Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady) after tweeting that they were trying to write in his style. His response was “Send me demos!” and the results are now foundational melodies layered throughout the album.
With Frank Piegaro (whose signature guitar style was featured on 2020’s You Or Someone You Know) returning to the lineup, the final addition was Cayetana’s Allegra Anka on bass. It’s not every day an artist gets to share the stage with bands like the above, but Denitzio’s remarkable talent lies in their ability to turn admiration into meaningful collaborations. They credit these partnerships as a springboard to showcase their personal development as a songwriter.
The band’s moniker, Worriers, is a homonym. When introducing someone new to the band, it’s important to specify “Worriers, as in to fret, not to fight.” But Worriers have finally done plenty of fighting on Trust Your Gut. Lest anyone thinks they’ve forgotten the political-punk roots of their debut album Imaginary Life, it wouldn’t be a Worriers record without referencing things like dystopian robot security dogs, dancing on the grave of a fascist, or a nod to the activist-themed novel Stay and Fight.
In a time when people were desperate for connection and leaning into relationships, Denitzio was scrawling a cathartic manifesto denouncing the things that no longer served them. But this is not a record of angst and scorekeeping. Trust Your Gut is an honest and often witty journey through heartbreak on its way to strength. In a way, Denitzio was also starting a new and incredibly vital relationship: one with themself.
To get where you’re going, you have to get away from where you’ve been. Coming up in the DIY scene, Worriers have earned the mark of a seasoned traveler, ready to demonstrate all they’ve learned along the way. Come for the biting self-empowerment and stay for the nods to pop, rock, indie, and folk. On Trust Your Gut, Denitzio emerges from the ashes, not as a phoenix reborn per se, but rather fortified by their past to build a more resilient future.
Worriers Tour Dates
October 11 - Permanent Records Roadhouse *
October 13 - Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial #
October 15 - Seattle, WA @ The Black Lodge #
October 16 - Portland, OR @ Twilight Cafe #
October 18 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill #
* with Broken Baby & Ricky
# with Tiny Stills and Ricky
