{"id":2252977,"date":"2026-01-27T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252977"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:21:29","slug":"footballhead-share-new-song-diversion-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/footballhead-share-new-song-diversion-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballhead Share New Song &#8220;Diversion&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Right now, we&#8217;re looking at a whole ton of young bands who make Deftones-style guitar-churn music with heavy riffs and vulnerable vocals. Chicago emo-grungers Footballhead <em>definitely<\/em> fit that mold, and they take the late-&#8217;90s thing further than most. Consider: They shot their new video in what appears to be a high-school gym, and frontman Ryan Nolen is wearing some absolutely enormous jeans. If you&#8217;re the right age, everything about this song and video might take you back.<\/p>\n<p>Footballhead&#8217;s new album <em>Weight Of The Truth<\/em> is on the way, and we&#8217;ve posted the early tracks &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2323159\/footballhead-hesitate\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hesitate<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2479971\/footballhead-used-to-be\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Used To Be<\/a>.&#8221; &#8220;Diversion,&#8221; their latest, is a propulsive riff-stomper with a video from directors Tom Conway and Chris Owsiany. If you stuffed these kids in a time machine and booked them to play the second stage of an alt-rock radio station festival in 1998, they&#8217;d fit right in. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"footballhead - &quot;Diversion&quot; - (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wd72zmfk5a4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Weight Of The Truth<\/em> is out 3\/20 on Tiny Engines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, we&#8217;re looking at a whole ton of young bands who make Deftones-style guitar-churn music with heavy riffs and vulnerable vocals. Chicago emo-grungers Footballhead definitely fit that mold, and they take the late-&#8217;90s thing further than most. Consider: They shot their new video in what appears to be a high-school gym, and frontman Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Footballhead-Share-New-Song-Diversion-Listen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252979,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252977\/revisions\/2252979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}