{"id":5644,"date":"2025-10-02T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/momma-expand-new-album\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:01:00","slug":"momma-expand-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/momma-expand-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Momma Expand \u2018Sky\u2019 With Outtakes, Heatmiser Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/Momma-by-Avery-Norman-2-secondary-hires-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"985\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ascendant rock quartet Momma are <a href=\"https:\/\/momma-band.ffm.to\/wtmbs-deluxe\" target=\"_blank\">expanding<\/a> their acclaimed latest Polyvinyl album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/04\/momma-welcome-to-my-blue-sky\/\">Welcome to My Blue Sky<\/a><\/em>, on Nov. 14 with four outtakes and a cover of \u201cChristian Brothers\u201d by the late Elliott Smith\u2019s pre-fame band Heatmiser. A head-nodding new single, \u201cCross Your Heart,\u201d is out now in tandem with a video directed by Prophet Media\u2019s Steph Rinzler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually were messing around with this one during soundchecks while we were still touring [the 2022 album]<em> Household Name<\/em>,\u201d band members say of \u201cCross Your Heart.\u201d \u201cWe always knew it had potential but we could never fully crack it, and this was one of the first songs we started working on in the writing process for <em>Welcome to My Blue Sky<\/em>. It\u2019s about a forbidden romance and sneaking around with another person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/record-store-day-black-firday\/\">Dylan, \u2018Wicked\u2019 Among 170 RSD Black Friday Titles<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/smashing-pumpkins-mellon-collie-30th\/\">Smashing Pumpkins Plump \u2018Mellon Collie\u2019 For 30th Birthday<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/folk-bitch-trio-talk-beginning-a-new-little-chapter\/\">\u00a0Folk Bitch Trio Talk \u2018Beginning a New Little Chapter\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rinzler\u2019s video finds band members Etta Friedman, Allegra Weingarten, Aron Kobayashi Ritch and Preston Fulks gallivanting around their adopted hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y. \u201cI wanted to capture Momma in their own world, goofing around, stumbling into moments, and letting the night carry them,\u201d she says. \u201cWhat unfolds is less of a traditional music video and more of a time capsule of a night out. At its core, this project was about keeping the process as fun and unselfconscious as the band is in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"wAzgPs3Nr20\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Two of the other outtakes were recorded live with acoustic guitars (\u201cthat was the best way to give them justice,\u201d band members say), while \u201cChristian Brothers\u201d was chosen because it\u2019s a song Friedman and Weingarten \u201chave been covering and playing live since high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Momma begins a short European and U.K. tour Oct. 31 in Brussels and will then play their biggest New York show to date on Nov. 20 at the 1,800-capacity Brooklyn Steel. After their first visits to Japan and Australia early next year, the band will help anchor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/something-in-the-way-festival\/\">Something in the Way festival<\/a> alongside Sunny Day Real Estate, Explosions in the Sky and the Hotelier from Jan. 31-Feb. 1 in Boston.<\/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>Ascendant rock quartet Momma are expanding their acclaimed latest Polyvinyl album, Welcome to My Blue Sky, on Nov. 14 with four outtakes and a cover of \u201cChristian Brothers\u201d by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3712,3987,3988,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elliott-smith","category-heatmiser","category-momma","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}