Today, sees the release of Atlanta’s Gringo Star new single “Watchdog.” The track is off the trio’s forthcoming release Back To The City, out August 24th via Nevado Music. Gringo Star hit the road for a North American tour, starting August 23rd in Boone, NC.

Gringo Star are described as “insouciant explorers, tossing the paddles overboard and drifting on the currents of their lackadaisical curiosity across a rippling sonic ocean, out to the far edges of rock & roll.Their guitars, keys and vocals create the psychoactive ingredients of their echo-slathered, doo-wop-indebted psychedelic garage bangers, gritty R&B shuffles and spaghetti western weirdness, with inspiration from Santo & Johnny, The Stooges, Ritchie Valens, Marc Bolan, Percy Faith, Sam Cooke, the men working on the chain gang—uh! ah!—they’re all here, their electric ghosts reaching across time, tapping Gringo Star on the shoulder like the crossroads devil to Robert Johnson, bestowing secrets, passing torches.

The band has toured the world with everyone from Cat Power and Feist to The Black Angels and Weezer, and also touring with Wavves, Best Coast, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Orwells, and fellow Atlantans The Black Lips

Gringo Star
Tour Dates

August 23 – Boone, NC – Boone Saloon
August 24 – Washington DC – Black Cat
August 25 – New Haven, CT – Café Nine
August 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade
August 27 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar
August 28 – Toronto, ON – Baby G
August 29 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
August 30 – Grand Rapids, MI – Dizzybird Anniversary Summer Party
August 31 – Cincinnati, OH – Northside Tavern
September 1 – Greenville SC – Pour Taproom
September 2 – Asheville, NC – The Mothlight
September 8 – Atlanta, GA –The Earl
September 13 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
September 14 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas
September 15 – El Paso, TX – The Monarch
September 16 – Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge
September 17 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
September 19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Hi Hat
September 20 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of The Hill
September 21 – Redding, CA – The Dip
September 22 – Portland, OR – Bunk Bar
September 23 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
September 24 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
September 25 – Denver, CO – Walnut Room
September 26 – Kansas City, MO – Riot Room
September 28 – Macon, GA – The Hummingbird