Goodnight, Texas Drops New 'Dry Heat' Single

Goodnight, Texas have just dropped their latest single "Dry Heat" today, March 7th. This is the second single from the roots-rock duo's forthcoming full-length LP.

Singer-songwriter Avi Vinocur shares some insight into the new single: "We wanted to kick off Signals (our new album of heavier material) with a fun, rocking song that felt like it fit on the Southwestern highways we've spent a lot of time on recently. We've started touring more in Arizona and New Mexico this past year and there's nowhere like it. The best scenery and food in the world. We wanted a fun and somewhat ridiculous (see the mind-numbing choreography in the music video) highway song to slap the steering wheel to and keep time with the lines in the road: a companion to peeling out of a dirt parking lot of a run-down gas station while pointing at the sky. Sometimes when you're working on a computer in the dark all you want to do is escape to the desert in an old car - and nothing cures my anxiety like a day on the open road, even if I'm only imagining it."

Goodnight, Texas is a band you've almost certainly heard by accident somewhere. And now on second look, you're deep in their catalog and they're telling you stories about trapped coal miners and lovebird bank robbers. Banjos and mandolins twinkle. Now you're seeing them live and they're swelling to a fever pitch, suddenly singing quiet harmonies off-mic, and then rocking out again.

You're talking to them at the merch table for a good while and you're legitimately excited about their new album Signals because, more than ever before, it captures the vast dynamic range of the show and blends it with their expansive and intricate songwriting.

Without doubt, the new album kicks. Lead single “RUNAWAYS” even features a blazing guest solo from none other than Metallica's Kirk Hammett, who admired the band's version of “Of Wolf and Man” on the 2022 covers album The Metallica Blacklist.

But beyond the memorable sock-you-in-the-face riffs, GN, TX is reaching its roots deeper in every direction on Signals. Their first album-sized trip into the studio expands their sonic range, thanks to Oakland's Ian and Jay Pellicci (Deerhoof, Tune-Yards). Stories of the Americana of yore bleed into the near past and present via DB Cooper and North Dakota oil field workers. Electric guitars pound like hammers, but the mandolins still twinkle like stars. Is that song a little tongue in cheek? Are those strings?   

Further googling reveals that NME, Rolling Stone, No Depression and Consequence of Sound have recently featured the band, and that in 2023 they appeared at SXSW, Red Wing Roots and Austin City Limits Festival. They've toured with Larkin Poe, Shakey Graves, Trampled by Turtles, The Brothers Comatose, Donavon Frankenreiter, and John Craigie.

Back in 2020, their song “The Railroad” was the opening montage theme for Tiger King, which had 53 million streams in its first week. Maybe that's where you heard them in the first place. Or maybe it was the Coors Banquet commercial with Sam Elliott. Wait a minute, they have a quarter of a billion streams across platforms. Maybe it was at a bar or in your friend's car, who knows. 

Still at the merch table at last call, you learn: Goodnight, Texas is a hamlet of 27 people and dozens of dogs, the exact mile-for-mile midpoint between co-founders Avi and Patrick Dyer Wolf's homes in San Francisco and Chapel Hill (as the van drives). The band is hoping to make it back and play another show for their friends there in the near future. 

Goodnight, Texas' new single "Dry Heat" is out now on all digital / streaming platforms. Click here to stream / purchase. Their new studio album Signals drops July 19th via 2 Cent Bank Check Records.

GOODNIGHT, TEXAS U.S. 2024 TOUR DATES

Mar. 08 - The Bluebird - Denver, CO

Mar. 10 - Sheridan Opera House - Telluride, CO

May 22 - 27 - Strawberry Music Festival - Grass Valley, CA

[additional dates to be announced soon]

photo: Dani Saputo

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