{"id":2251,"date":"2025-06-04T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-head-and-the-heart-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:19:00","slug":"the-head-and-the-heart-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-head-and-the-heart-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Head &amp; The Heart Turn The Corner On \u2018Aperture\u2019 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Balancing back catalog with new music is an evergreen challenge for touring bands, but for veteran folk\/rock combo the Head &amp; the Heart, the decision to feature up to 10 songs nightly from their latest album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theheadandtheheart.lnk.to\/Aperture\" target=\"_blank\">Aperture<\/a><\/em>, is a pure reflection of their enthusiasm for the material. The group have <a href=\"https:\/\/theheadandtheheart.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">North American shows<\/a> on tap through early October and will next visit Boston tomorrow (June 5).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is so invested because we\u2019ve all been so heavily involved in the writing process from the beginning,\u201d says vocalist\/guitarist Jonathan Russell. \u201cPlaying these songs live is the next domino to fall, and it\u2019s already feeling much more connected and richer and more spiritual, really. Everyone\u2019s lives are so embedded in these songs. Yes, we\u2019ve been a band for 15 years and know what to expect in terms of touring, butI think we needed to\u00a0almost drop a bomb on that and forget a lot of it, because it was starting to feel a little stale. It\u2019s already feeling much more human and almost silly again. We feel like a fresh band\u00a0that\u2019s really hungry, which is an exciting feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/jeff-buckley-documentary-coming-to-theaters-in-august\/\">Jeff Buckley Documentary Coming To Theaters In August<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/island-time-from-dance-floors-to-yacht-rock-the-ting-tings-ride-a-new-wave\/\">Island Time: From Dance Floors to Yacht Rock, the Ting Tings Ride A New Wave<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/ivy-first-lp-in-14-years\/\">Ivy\u2019s First LP In 14 Years Has Adam Schlesinger On Every Song<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Driving that vibe is the fact that the Head &amp; the Heart self-produced <em>Aperture<\/em>, their debut for Verve Forecast, for the first time since their beloved self-titled debut in 2011. \u201cThe album was almost live takes across the board,. and we finally were able to do that\u00a0based on the way we wrote the songs and the ability to actually pull all that off now,\u201d Russell says.\u00a0\u201cSo when it came to learning the songs for tour, it was kind of the easiest process we\u2019ve ever had. We didn\u2019t really want to change a lot based on how natural and how live the record is. We relied less on production, so the songwriting and the arranging is really the statement. All we have to do is show up clear-headed and try to be present,\u00a0and then the songs do the driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group have enjoyed success with the new album\u2019s first single, \u201cArrow,\u201d which spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Triple-A radio chart, while fellow fresh cuts \u201cFinally Free\u201d and \u201cAfter the Setting Sun\u201d are being played live almost every night. \u201cWhen we were setting up the record, someone said it sounds like the Head &amp; the Heart covering the Head &amp; the Heart,\u201d Russell laughs. \u201cIt has made performing them feel very natural, because the songs feel so in our bodies. On [the 2022 album] <em>Every Shade of Blue<\/em>, we took some leaps with production and genres. By the time we started performing those songs, there were a lot of growing pains. I didn\u2019t play guitar on some of them, so I was just running around the stage singing these intricate and challenging parts. I enjoy that, but it\u2019s not as effortless as this batch of songs, which really allow us to communicate and connect with an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russell is also touring sober for the first time in his life \u2014 a potentially scary proposition made much easier by the support of bandmates Charity Rose Thielen, Matty Gervais, Chris Zasche, Kenny Hensley and Tyler Williams and a new regimen on the road. \u201cFor a long time, I was using things as Band-Aids that were kind of working, but not really, like exercising,\u201d he admits. \u201cThe biggest thing for me is that I got sober, and I\u2019m already noticing that my connection with myself and spirituality has grown. There\u2019s less dissonance in my life. Part of that us doing yoga, going to meetings and meditating. I\u2019m actually really excited to be that present on stage. It has never happened for me before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid an itinerary that includes visits to such storied venues as New York\u2019s Central Park Summerstage and Los Angeles\u2019 Greek Theatre, one particular show sticks out: an Aug. 16 support slot for the Lumineers at the 70,000-capacity T-Mobile Field in the Head &amp; the Heart\u2019s adopted hometown of Seattle. \u201cWe\u2019ve been in those venues very rarely \u2014 like for a hockey game that was being played outdoors,\u201d Russell says. \u201cBut when you\u2019re actually on a bill with a band like the Lumineers, it\u2019s going to be pretty big. We\u2019re only doing one show, so how do you practice for something like that? I\u2019m excited and nervous, but I love that kind of a challenge. It\u2019s still hard to wrap my head around, in all honesty. Maybe we just go straight into AC\/DC mode and be like, this may never happen again and we want pyro, and yes, we\u2019re the opener!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And even though <em>Aperture<\/em> is barely a month old, Russell concedes that \u201cthere are several things that got started and then for whatever reason were not finished\u201d during its sessions and could potentially resurface down the road. \u201cThey\u2019re like little puzzle pieces floating around. My brain is starting to want to gravitate towards\u00a0new again. Still, now that we\u2019re playing in front of people, especially when they\u2019re hearing songs for the first time, we\u2019re almost overtaken by a youthful energy and worried won\u2019t sound professional (<em>laughs<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing back catalog with new music is an evergreen challenge for touring bands, but for veteran folk\/rock combo the Head &amp; the Heart, the decision to feature up to 10&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,1350,1351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pushly","category-the-head-and-the-heart","category-the-lumineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}