{"id":2368718,"date":"2026-04-11T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2368718"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:18:49","slug":"alabama-shakes-tackle-these-crazy-times-on-new-song-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alabama-shakes-tackle-these-crazy-times-on-new-song-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Shakes Tackle These Crazy Times on New Song &#8216;American Dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Ahead of trio&#8217;s North American spring tour, Brittany Howard and company share second new track since reuniting<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alabama-shakes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alabama-shakes\" data-tag=\"alabama-shakes\">Alabama Shakes<\/a> have shared the new single \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d the second track the trio has dropped since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alabama-shakes-surprise-reunion-first-show-since-2017-1235211436\/\">their surprise reunion<\/a> in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a snapshot of what we\u2019re living through in 2026,\u201d singer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brittany-howard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brittany-howard\" data-tag=\"brittany-howard\">Brittany Howard<\/a> said of \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d in a statement. \u201cI look around and wonder how we got to a place where there\u2019s so much strain and so little support. I mean, it shouldn\u2019t be impossible to take off work so you can bring your child to the doctor\u2014that\u2019s actually insane. My hope is that one day people will hear this song and say, \u2018Yeah, shit was crazy back then, but we made it through.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alabama Shakes - American Dream (Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AaWUQstLC7o?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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter nearly a decade of inactivity, Alabama Shakes \u2014 now Howard, bassist Zac Cockrell, and guitarist Heath Fogg \u2014 staged <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alabama-shakes-surprise-reunion-first-show-since-2017-1235211436\/\">a surprise reunion gig<\/a> in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in December 2024. That was followed by a 2025 tour and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alabama-shakes-another-life-first-song-10-years-1235418296\/\">Another Life<\/a>,\u201d the band\u2019s first new song in over a decade.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlabama Shakes will reportedly release their third studio album and first since 2015\u2019s <em>Sound &amp; Color<\/em> later this year. The LP will be the band\u2019s first with Island Records, who they signed with in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cAmerican Dream\u201d arrives just days before Alabama Shakes return to the road on April 16 for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alabama-shakes-spring-reunion-tour-1235483264\/\">a North American amphitheater tour<\/a>. Along the way, the band will also serve as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/zach-bryan-2026-tour-dates-1235471612\/\">opening act<\/a> for Zach Bryan concerts in Eugene, Oregon and Dover, Delaware.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of trio&#8217;s North American spring tour, Brittany Howard and company share second new track since reuniting Alabama Shakes have shared the new single \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d the second track the trio has dropped since their surprise reunion in late 2024. \u201cIt\u2019s a snapshot of what we\u2019re living through in 2026,\u201d singer Brittany Howard said of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2368719,"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":[357667,353323],"class_list":["post-2368718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alabama-shakes","tag-brittany-howard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alabama-Shakes-Tackle-These-Crazy-Times-on-New-Song-American.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368718","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=2368718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368720,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368718\/revisions\/2368720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}