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A close-up of Shakey Graves.

Shakey Graves

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media release: The much-anticipated new album from Shakey Graves, Movie of the Week, is out now on Dualtone Records—listen/share HERE. In celebration, the video for new album track “Century City” debuts on release day —watch/share the video HERE.

Through the years, Alejandro Rose-Garcia (a.k.a. Shakey Graves) has always found innovative ways to engage his fan base. He continues to create unique experiences for fans with the release of Movie of the Week—this time unveiling an AI-generated website feature. Building the site was an intricate and complicated project that happily consumed his life for a few years, and the end result allows fans to create their own one-of-a-kind versions of the album, drawing from hundreds of alternate takes recorded over three separate week-long sessions. Visit the site and create your own album HERE.

“Every day, we would listen to some of the general themes/demos I had put together, talk about movies and come up with places to put a fictional character using themes and songs,” Rose-Garcia details. “This approach allowed us to avoid getting bogged down in repeating the same song for a whole day. Instead, we grew as a band, always adapting and seeking the best version of a song on any given day. The experience was exhilarating, and the result: hundreds of unique recordings captured with insane quality that took over two years to pore through and edit.”

He continues, “My ambition was to craft a perpetually evolving album. My vision was to invite listeners to curate their unique Movie of the Week, with the songs serving as its ever-changing soundtrack. Even if users encounter the same songs over time, the sequence and associated imagery would likely differ, making each experience distinct.”

“I eagerly await the diverse creations it will spawn, and I hope to feature or officially release some of these user-generated albums in the future.”

Leading up to the album’s release, he has shared “Big In The World,” “Playing Along,” “Evergreen” and “Ready or Not” (a duet with rising star Sierra Ferrell.)

Shakey Graves is gearing up to head out on an extensive North American tour this fall, kicking off September 21 in Phoenix with further stops in Nashville, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston and more.

Shakey Graves has undergone a myriad of personal and sonic evolutions since its inception in 2011. Beginning as a solo music project, to now being accompanied by a full band, Rose-Garcia depicted the journey in ways such as changing his album covers from black and white to color, mirroring the musical growth. With beginnings in the folk-rock space—even winning “Best Emerging Artist” at the Americana Music Awards—he went on to move away from much of the stripped-down, folk sound and began drawing on influences such as The Beatles, The Kinks, Elliot Smith, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill and other 90’s indie rock bands.

In the past, Rose-Garcia has burned CDs and put them in personalized bags, built intricate scavenger hunts sending fans around the city following trails of clues to find exclusive tapes, shared Bandcamp-only releases in the age of the DSPs and more to create different adventures for each fan.

Rose-Garcia grew up surrounded by the arts, his mother a playwright and his father a set designer. He had acting roles in Friday Night Lights as well as Spy Kids, and found himself going out to Los Angeles regularly to audition for parts.