We hope you’ll make plans to join us for a special Laura Jane Grace listening party on Tuesday, February 13th, where we’ll be spinning a copy of her upcoming album, Hole In My Head! The album will also be available for early purchase (3 days before release, in store only!) While supplies last event attendees will receive an exclusive Large Jane Grace poster and as well as a raffle ticket for our grand prize drawing—a signed copy of Hole In My Head on vinyl plus one pair of tickets to see Laura Jane with Matt Patton & Mikey Erg and special guests Thelma And The Sleaze and Dikembe, Sunday March 17th at The City Winery Nashville. (For concert tickets and venue information visit The City Winery Nashville.) Our Laura Jane Grace Hole In My Head Listening Party is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all!
Hole In My Head is Grace’s twelfth album and an exciting hallmark in Laura Jane Grace’s colorful and extensive career. Recorded at Native Sound in St. Louis, Missouri with David Beeman and mixed & mastered by Matt Allison (engineer for acts such as Lawrence Arms and Rise Against), the album is a sonic curio cabinet containing multitudes. Hole In My Head features warm 50s-rock-influenced guitar riffs, saved-for-later lyrics, love letters to St. Louis, dysphoria apparel, and thoughtful reflections on a punk life lived.
A musical force since Against Me!'s debut in the late 90's, Grace has never shied away from themes of political commentary, environmentalism, social critique, and candid self-exploration. Following the 2012 public announcement of her gender transition in the pages of Rolling Stone, Laura Jane racked up several accolades. Against Me! released its most acclaimed record to date, Transgender Dysphoria Blues in 2014, which was followed by an Emmy-nominated 10-episode companion documentary, True Trans with Laura Jane Grace. In 2016, she teamed up with journalist Dan Ozzi, to co-write her acclaimed memoir TRANNY: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist which went on to be featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and rightfully named one of Billboard’s “100 Greatest Music Books of All Time”.
