Youth Lagoon, has returned with new single “Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas),” the track is off the artist-producer’s aka: Trevor Powers’ forthcoming album Rarely Do I Dream available on February 22nd via Fat Possum, and follows previous single “Speed Freak.” “Someone said my music makes them feel like they died in the forest, and I’ve honestly never heard a better compliment,” Powers says. “I don’t think I have a song that’s more suited for that description than ‘Gumshoe.’ I usually write out of pure love, delirium, or just to get the devil off my back, and this one checks all three boxes… it may be the closest I’ve come so far to finding real freedom in music.”

Along with the new single, Powers announces a EU/UK tour with dates in Berlin, London, Paris, and more. Next month, Powers kicks off a North American tour. kicking off on March 27th in Spokane, WA.

On “Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas),” Powers sings: “It was the world I had // Scenes I wish I never saw // The summer taught me that life’s a baseball bat to the jaw.” In Powers’ words, the song is “a love letter to my 1990s small-town boyhood — taking all of those fragments of memory and stitching them into a present-day folktale. I grew up homeschooled in a house full of brothers where there was enough mischief and make-believe to make any mother crack. Our world was whatever we wanted it to be, and I don’t think that ever changed for me.” The self-directed video for “Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)” is “a stew of home movies, family archive, and footage I took just a few months ago around my current neighborhood.”

In the fall of 2023, Powers discovered a shoebox filled with home videos in his parents’ basement. “When I took the tapes home and popped in the first one, it was my brother Bobby and I at the state fair. I was 4 years old choking on a corn dog,” he laughs. “If anything’s a summary of life, that is.” Powers spent the following week recording his favorite moments off the TV — Easter egg hunts, backyard baseball, bloody noses, birthday parties, road trips, and all the life in-between. The vivid intimacies of life and boyhood depicted in Powers’ home movies began shaping and infusing with his songs. He started sampling the audio and manipulating it into a kind of musical cinematography, fusing past with future.

Youth Lagoon 2025 Tour Dates

Thu. Mar. 27 – Spokane, WA @ District Bar @ Knitting Factory
Fri. Mar. 28 – Missoula, MT @ ZACC
Sat. Mar. 29 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Fest
Thu. Apr. 3 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
Fri. Apr. 4 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
Sat. Apr. 5 – Victoria, BC @ Upstairs
Sun. Apr. 6 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
Tue. Apr. 8 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
Wed. Apr. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent
Thu. Apr. 10 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
Fri. Apr. 11 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
Sat. Apr. 12 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Mon. Apr. 14 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Tue. Apr. 15 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
Wed. Apr. 16 – Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co
Fri. Apr. 18 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
Sat. Apr. 19 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Altar)
Sun. Apr. 20 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
Mon. Apr. 21 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Tue. Apr. 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
Thu. Apr. 24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Fri. Apr. 25 – Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
Sat. Apr. 26 – New Haven, CT @ Space Ballroom
Sun. Apr. 27 – Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
Tue. Apr. 29 – Montréal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
Thu. May 1 – Toronto, ON @ Axis
Fri. May 2 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
Sat. May 3 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Sun. May 4 – Louisville, KY @ Whirling Tiger
Mon. May 5 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
Wed. May 7 – Chicago, IL @ Outset
Thu. May 8 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
Fri May 9 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
Sat. May 10 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Mon. May 12 – St. Louis, MO @ Atomic Cowboy
Tue. May 13 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
Thu. May 15 – Denver, CO @ Marquis
Fri. May 16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
Tue. June 3 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Wed. June 4 – Bordeaux, FR @ Le Rocher de Palmer
Sun. June 8 – Zurich, CH @ Exil
Tue. June 10 – Vienna, AT @ B72
Wed. June 11 – Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
Thu. June 12 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
Fri. June 13 – Cologne, DE @ Helios 37
Tue. June 17 – Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo
Wed. June 18 – Antwerp, BE @ Trix Club
Thu. June 19 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall

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