| Release Date: | 111326 |
| Currently: | Out of stock... OR coming soon - Check That Release Date one line up! (MM/DD/YY) |
| Please note: | Already on order! Simply click "Add to wishlist" at the bottom of this page to be notified (via email) when more arrive! |
November 13th 2026
Black Vinyl
In celebration of 20 years riding the bus to never-ever land, Howlin Rain delivers "Watermelon", a glittering gift of deep-cut cover tunes drawn from a late-night FM transmission that never was, evoking an era when LPs, waterbeds, and bongs sat side-by-side in headshops strewn across the coasts and flyover states.
"Watermelon" sums up band founder Ethan Miller's long, strange trip from the blown-out Blue Cheer nebula of Comets On Fire, to Howlin Rain's ongoing love letter to 1970s rock radio (and their stint with Rick Rubin's American imprint), then a stopover in the acid-folk lily fields of Heron Oblivion before launching into the ecstatic silver currents of interstellar space with The Odyssey Cult and Orcutt Shelley Miller. With "Watermelon", Miller has reinvigorated Howlin Rain's ever-changing roster once again, with only drummer Justin Smith from the last couple of lineups, and notable guests Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes), Ty Segall, and David Nance.
The new band doesn't quite return to the manicured hedges of "The Russian Wilds", despite its exploration of some of those AOR tropes, but casts the lessons Ethan learned in the major-label wilderness into a mirror of the band's more modest, stripped-down roots, refracted back through the tighter psych moves of its more recent Silver Current releases.
Track list: