After eight long years, Living Colour is back with new music from the upcoming release of Shade, due out September 8 on Megaforce Records. After releasing the first single, “Come On,” the hype has been built and the excitement continues with today’s release of their second single, “Program.” The forthcoming record Shade marks the band’s sixth album, following 2009’s The Chair in the Doorway. Frontman Corey Glover says the band has been busy perfecting this new work of art for quite a while, and that the result is “a long look at the blues and its incarnations, musically as well as emotionally.”
As the press release states, the socially charged track features an opening sample of Scarface discussing the band, while the song’s lyric addresses the impact of modern media on the collective consciousness of society. In an exclusive premiere with Loudwire, Corey Glover explains: “Back in the day, the news was called a ‘loss leader.’ It wasn’t for profit. News wasn’t made to sell stuff. News was there to be purely informational. That’s all the news was supposed to be, a public service that lets you know what’s going on in and around the world you live in. Not to be an arm of some sort of political ideology.”
Living Colour’s music bends back and forth between heavy metal, funk, jazz, hip-hop, country, and alternative rock, inviting a variety of listeners to enjoy their music since 1984. Listen to the new track below:
Shade Track Listing
1. Freedom of Express (F.O.X.)
2. Preachin’ Blues
3. Come On
4. Program
5. Who Shot Ya
6. Always Wrong
7. Blak Out
8. Pattern In Time (Skin In The Game)
9. Who’s That
10. Glass Teeth
11. Invisible
12. Inner City Blues
13. Two Sides
Living Colour Tour Dates
August 19 – Hampton, VA – Downtown Hampton Block Party
September 2 – New Lenox, IL – Triple Play Concert Series
September 3 – Chicago, IL – City Winery
September 4 – Chicago, IL – City Winery
September 8 – Eindhoven, NL – City Rock Festival
September 9 – Leeuwarden, NL – City Rock Festival
September 10 – Manheim, DE – MS Connexion Complex
September 12 – Munich, DE – Backstage Halle
September 14 – Vienna, AT – Porgy & Bess
September 15 – Bologna, IT – Zona Roveri
September 16 – Rome, IT – Orion
September 17 – Bellusco, IT – Bloom
September 19 – Solothurn, CH – Kofmehl
September 20 – Bochum, DE – Matrix
September 21 – Vaureal, FR – Le Forum
September 26 – Glasgow, UK – The Garage
September 27 – Wolverhampton, UK – Robin2
September 28 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
September 29 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
September 30 – Manchester, UK – Club Academy
October 1 – London, UK – ULU
October 4 – Norwich, UK – Waterfront
October 6 – Liverpool, UK – Hangar34
October 7 – Newcastle, UK – Riverside