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Dana and Alden by Rob Klassen
SPEEDO OUT JUNE 27TH VIA CONCORD JAZZ
Eugene, Oregon musical duo Dana and Alden share the latest offering from their forthcoming album with new single “Childhood Crush”. A reunion with frequent collaborator and vocalist Cinya Khan who featured on viral track “Let’s Go To Trader Joe’s”, the new single winds the clock back for the brother duo through a fictional love story, revisiting a more innocent time before it was fractured by fame and the realities of lives as touring musicians.
Preceded by eclectic lead single “Don’t Run Away”, “Childhood Crush” extends the range of what fans can expect from the duo’s new album even further, dipping into funk-laden basslines and an inescapable indie pop-esque chorus. Speedo is out June 27th via Concord Jazz and represents a leap into the unknown for the duo, chasing novel sounds they’ve never heard before in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire Charif Megarbane.
“‘Childhood Crush’ is the fleeting feeling of liking someone in your adolescence and then watching them ascend to stardom,” Dana and Alden say of the single. “We played this driving G-funk groove and Cinya weaved through the layers with her silky voice. The saxophone floats around the song responding to the narration almost like the crush is reacting to her words.”
The duo just wrapped up an extensive North American tour with Remi Wolf and on the heels of Speedo’s release, will head off to Europe for a series of headline shows and festival dates throughout July.
The two brothers, Dana and Alden McWayne, the latter of which you may recognize as @gucci_pineapple, both grew up enthralled with the music that surrounded them in Eugene, from Bob Dylan and Talking Heads, to the Grateful Dead and familial Irish folk. They first made music together as a duo with their 2021 debut EP Brothers, which unfurled into 2023’s Quiet Music For Young People featuring viral breakout track “Let’s Go to Trader Joe’s (featuring Cinya Khan)” and last year’s Coyote, You’re My Star. The brothers and their backing band – Andrew Mitchell on bass, Ebba Dankel on vocals and keys, Eli Torgersen on vocals and guitar, and Salim Charvet on sax and synths – have found their groove having toured with Benny Sings, and the aforementioned just-wrapped dates with Remi Wolf.
While Speedo is freeform in its mutations from song-to song both sonically and thematically, the body of work as a whole represents two brothers and musicians coming into their own. Recorded over a rainy, feverish two-week stretch holed up in Lisbon, Dana, Alden and Charif experimented with rare synthesizers and analog toys to craft an imaginative new full-length that fully realizes the imaginative ideas presented on their first two albums. Still rooted in jazz, Speedo gets intentionally “messy”, folding in elements of funk, indie rock, pop, hip-hop and more. The album’s imagination also leads to moments of clear-eyed focus. “Making music as a political weapon is one of our main motivations,” Dana says, highlighting album opener “Norm”, which was written for scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein, who has long championed the Palestinian cause. “This album is a continuation of our politics, which have always been anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.”
Upcoming Dana and Alden Live Dates:
7/7 – Paris, France @ PopUp!
7/8 – London, England @ Jazz Cafe
7/10 – Cologne, Germany @ Artheater
7/11 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ North Sea Jazz Festival
7/13 – Ghent, Belgium @ Gent Jazz
7/15 – Montreux, Switzerland @ Montreux Jazz Festival
7/16 – Frankfurt, Germany @ Zoom
7/18 – Pori, Finland @ Pori Jazz Festival
7/19 – Molde, Norway @ Molde Jazz Festival
7/21 – Gothenburg, Sweden @ Skeppet GBG
7/22 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Kollektivet Livet
7/24 – Hamburg, Germany @ Hebebühne
7/25 – Berlin, Germany @ Kantine am Berghain
7/26 – Heidelberg, Germany @ Metropolink Festival
Dana and Alden
Speedo
June 27, 2025
Concord Jazz
1. Norm
2. Lisbon in Rain
3. Melange
4. Don’t Run Away
5. Fisherman’s Dream
6. Wyckoff Deli Chicken Over Rice
7. Childhood Crush
8. Obsidian
9. Leila
10. Super Beaver Full Moon Love Song
11. Rick Pablo
12. Daydrinking in Springfield
13. Kelp Forest Palace
14. Charif’s Theme
15. Why Do You Even Talk to Me
16. Cacio e Pepe
17. Speedo
18. Baby, You’re Gonna Miss That Plane
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