Matt Costa Premieres TIME TRICKS Video, Sets Additional Fall Tour Dates

Southern California-based singer/songwriter Matt Costa's fifth full-length album-and first in five years-Santa Rosa Fangs is out now on Dangerbird Records and available for purchase/streaming at http://radi.al/SantaRosaFangs. Costa is now premiering the new video for the track "Time Tricks," watch/share it at https://youtu.be/5Z0ToeTkeOA.

Costa is continuing to tour in support of the record, confirming an intimate, fan-hosted "The Road to Santa Rosa Fangs" living room tour this September in which he tells the stories behind the new record and plays songs spanning his entire career. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.mattcosta.com/livingrooms.

Costa will also tour North America later this fall with Tennis. Tickets are available at http://mattcosta.com/tour, see below for a complete list of dates for both tours.

Additionally, the special Novella Edition of Santa Rosa Fangs-a digital-only reissue of the critically acclaimed record-is due October 5 via Dangerbird Records. The new edition features new narration, never-before-heard b-sides and interstitial tracks from Costa, fleshing out the album's story of a fictional young woman named Sharon, her two brothers Ritchie and Tony, and their tale of love, loss and coming of age in California, replete with long distance love affairs and nostalgic romances. Pre-order the Novella Edition athttp://smarturl.it/MattCostaNovella.

Rather than setting out to create a specific narrative for the new record, Costa began noticing a theme in the new songs as he wrote them: an unconscious embodiment of the surroundings in which he himself had grown up.

"I've interwoven my own stories into a fictional idea of what Santa Rosa Fangs is, from my own time spent living in Northern and Southern California and years driving up and down the coast, seeing the landscape and where life can pull you within one state," Costa explains. "It's the characters' story and my story, too, contemporary but still tortured by the past. It's a window into a time period but spoken as if it's the present. The beauty of love and loss doesn't have a date on it; it's timeless."

Produced by Peter Matthew Bauer (The Walkmen) and Nick Stumpf (French Kicks),Santa Rosa Fangs follows Costa's 2013 self-titled effort, which was hailed by MTV News as "a full-blown orchestral-pop affair, with strings and horns urging the songs to grand heights and dramatic dynamic shifts," while American Songwriter included it in their Top 50 Albums of 2013, noting that "everything is meticulously arranged, often with strings, horns and layered backing singing. They effortlessly capture a sweet, innocent, truly captivating folk pop whimsy that never seems forced, pretentious or outdated, even with its obvious reverence for an earlier time."

In the early 2000s Costa was on his way to becoming a professional skateboarder when he was derailed by a serious injury. He changed his focus to his songwriting and an early demo found its way to No Doubt's Tom Dumont, who ultimately produced Costa's early recordings. In the time since Costa's last full-length record he has kept busy by soundtracking the award-winning documentary Orange Sunshine and independently releasing a series of EPs.

MATT COSTA LIVE

September 12	Austin, TX	Cactus Cafe*
September 13	Cypress, TX	Private residence/living room*
September 14	Dallas, TX	Private residence/living room*
September 15	Portland, OR	Private residence/living room*
September 16	Reedsport, OR	Private residence/living room*
September 21	Vista, CA	Private residence/living room*
September 22	Hemet, CA	Private residence/living room*
September 25	Los Angeles, CA	Private residence/living room*
September 26	Ojai, CA	Private residence/living room*
September 27	Sacramento, CA	Private residence/living room*
October 4	Santa Fe, NM	Meow Wolf†
October 5	Phoenix, AZ	Crescent Ballroom†
October 6	Los Angeles, CA	Troubadour†
October 7	Solana Beach, CA	Belly Up Tavern†
October 9	San Francisco, CA	The Chapel†
October 11	Portland, OR	Doug Fir Lounge†
October 12	Seattle, WA	The Crocodile†
October 13	Vancouver, BC	Biltmore Cabaret†
October 15	Missoula, MT	Top Hat Lounge†
October 16	Salt Lake City, UT	Metro Music Hall†
October 28	Los Angeles, CA	Rock 'n' Roll L.A. Half Marathon
November 6	Minneapolis, MN	Cedar Cultural Center†
November 7	Chicago, IL	Thalia Hall†
November 9	Toronto, ON	Long Boat Hall†
November 10	Montreal, QC	Bar Le Ritz†
November 11	Cambridge, MA	The Sinclair†
November 13	New York, NY	Le Poisson Rouge†
November 14	Washington, DC	The Black Cat†
November 16	Atlanta, GA	Aisle 5†
November 17	Birmingham, AL	Saturn†
November 18	Nashville, TN	3rd & Lindsley†

* "The Road to Santa Rosa Fangs" Tour
† with Tennis

photo credit: Alex Ramirez

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