The All-American Rejects have returned with new music, main the best way with their new single ‘King Kong.’ The observe represents the sound and course on their forthcoming full-length Sandbox album, and signifies a brand new chapter for the band. With stay dates already out, they’re additionally on the brink of see their followers once more on stage.
In a press launch, The All-American Rejects’ administration introduced that the Sandbox album is due out on Might twenty sixth.
As for the brand new single “King Kong”, it’s about leaving Los Angeles,” frontman Tyson Ritter shares. “I’m from a small city in Oklahoma, and I moved again house. After I received to L.A., I fell into an attention-grabbing crowd. It was the quintessential, ‘I’m in L.A. in my twenties and early thirties’, life. It’s a city the place everyone seems to be chasing the identical business. There’s no actual life about it for me that I skilled till I left. Nick introduced out the standard within the music. It was a really pure mixture of our efforts.”
Watch the lyrics video for “King Kong”:
Pushed by an acoustic guitar that creaks beneath a sunny vocal, ‘King Kong’ builds with a hypnotic pulse and a slippery bassline anchoring the verses earlier than erupting right into a biting, simple refrain: “You’ll all the time be round to let me…DOWN.” Sky-scraping electrical guitar cuts by way of the observe as teases, “You wish to play like Godzilla? You’d higher chew down laborious!”
‘King Kong’ follows the momentum of beforehand launched singles ‘Straightforward Come, Straightforward Go’ and ‘Get This,’ each of which have helped gas the band’s resurgence throughout streaming platforms, different radio, and viral charts. With Sandbox marking their first album in over a decade, The All-American Rejects are getting into a defining new period with renewed inventive momentum and a deepening reference to followers throughout generations.
Along with the brand new launch, the band introduced final month at SXSW that they are going to be hitting the street as soon as once more for a second iteration of their wildly well-liked Home Social gathering Tour. Constructing on the viral success and fan-driven vitality of the primary run, the upcoming tour guarantees much more intimate, unpredictable, and high-energy performances in distinctive areas throughout the nation. Extra particulars and dates shall be revealed quickly.
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The All-American Rejects UK stay dates 2026
Sat thirteenth June – Obtain Pageant, Leicestershire. UK
Solar 14th June – Academy, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Tue sixteenth June – O2 Discussion board Kentish City, London, UK – SOLD OUT
Concerning the All-American Rejects
Starting a renaissance within the 2020s, the band managed to quietly promote out venues throughout the nation on their first correct headline tour in over a decade: 2023’s Moist Sizzling All-American Summer season Tour. They magnetically attracted tens of 1000’s of followers to see them at free guerilla pop-up live shows at USC, in a cornfield, and out of doors of a home in Nashville throughout 2025’s wildly well-liked “Home Social gathering Tour”.
Surveying their affect, Selection put it greatest, “They gained over younger listeners with sticky songs about damaged hearts and adolescent lust which have resonated throughout the a long time.” For as a lot as their bulletproof again catalog is engaging to generations of followers, it’s the uncontainable vitality of the collective that conjures up all listeners to stay round.
Now and without end, The All-American Rejects are proudly “a band of the individuals,” reducing by way of the bullshit, silencing the noise, and assembly audiences precisely the place they’re with music that they want. This spirit surges by way of their fifth album, first INDEPENDENT launch, and first full-length LP in 14 years, Sandbox. It’s the sound of rock’s unsung antiheroes doing what they do greatest, pulling no punches, and delivering sticky, sharp, and typically candy anthems.
