WATERPARKS ANNOUNCE ‘(ALMOST) NO BARRICADE TOUR’; “TELL ME WHY” MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW

RELEASE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “TELL ME WHY

ANNOUNCE ‘THE (ALMOST) NO BARRICADE TOUR’

TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW AUGUST 14 AT 10AM LOCAL TIME

NEW ALBUM ‘JINX’ OUT NOW

CHECK OUT AWSTEN KNIGHT’S APPEARANCE ON ‘THE MARK HOPPUS SHOW’ NOW ON APPLE MUSIC

Fresh off of the release of the band’s new album ‘JINX’, Waterparks have released the official music video for the album’s opening track “TELL ME WHY”.

The song, which includes features from Mark Hoppus, Dillon Francis, Eric Nally As God and  Danny Elfman As The Devil, explores existential anxiety through a darkly comedic near-death experience, following Awsten Knight as he confronts mortality, the afterlife, and the questions that haunt him about life’s meaning.

Watch the music video for “TELL ME WHY” here: https://youtu.be/PgT0izVBLKc

Waterparks also announced dates for ‘THE (ALMOST) NO BARRICADE TOUR’. Dates will kick off on October 27 in Salt Lake City, UT at Soundwell. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday, August 14 at 10am local time and can be found at: www.waterparksband.com/tour. VIP packages will be available.

Waterparks ‘THE (ALMOST) NO BARRICADE TOUR’ – DATES

🙂 – NO BARRICADE

☹️ – BARRICADE

October 27 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell 🙂

October 29 – Denver, CO – Oriental Theater ☹️

October 31 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater 🙂

November 2 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theatre ☹️

November 4 – Milwaukee, WI – Rave Bar 🙂

November 5 – Milwaukee, WI – Rave Bar 🙂

November 6 – Milwaukee, WI – Rave Bar 🙂

November 8 – Lakewood, OH – The Roxy 🙂

November 10 – New Haven, CT – Toads ☹️

November 12 – Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents 🙂

November 13 – Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents 🙂

November 14 – Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents 🙂

November 16 – Towson, MD – The Recher 🙂

November 17 – Towson, MD – The Recher 🙂

November 20 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell) ☹️

November 21 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell) ☹️

November 22 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell) ☹️

November 24 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues ☹️

November 28 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar 🙂

November 29 – Houston, TX  – Scout Bar 🙂

December 2 – Tucson, AZ – La Rosa 🙂

December 4 – Santa Ana, CA – Observatory OC

December 6 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades ☹️

December 7 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades ☹️

Tickets are on sale tomorrow – Friday, August 14 at 10am local time at www.waterparksband.com/tour

On JINX Waterparks turn inward and outward at once, unpacking existential dread, the disorienting cost of visibility, and all-consuming relationships to expose a world where nothing quite makes sense, but the desperation to find meaning, connection, or even escape never lets up.

The album opens with cinematic flair juxtaposed with emotional intimacy: “TELL ME WHY” is a story of death, purgatory, confrontation, and return. That deliberate juxtaposition runs throughout JINX, with each song asserting its purpose rather than blending into a palette. “PROWLER” is a study in isolation and reckoning. “RED GUITAR” snaps in the opposite direction, with swaggering hooks. “IF LYRICS WERE CONFIDENTIAL” folds cutting internal commentary into a song that thrives on tension. Even at its most aggressive or surreal, JINX remains tightly composed, its chaos less accidental than thoughtfully curated.

That multiplicity has always defined Waterparks. The band lives in the tension between charm and abrasion, sincerity and irreverence, building songs that can disarm as quickly as they hit. It’s a balance that runs across all six albums thus far. Each era raises the stakes. The scope widens, the ideas sharpen, and the band keeps moving forward, faster than expectations can settle around them.

“This album came from so many versions of me,” Knight observes, with a knowing laugh. “There’s, like, ten versions of me on it, looking back. Like, ‘Damn, we had the whole crew here.’”

“My creative competition is me,” Knight continues. “And I’m hard to beat.”

Track list

  1. TELL ME WHY (FEATURING DANNY ELFMAN, MARK HOPPUS, ERIC NALLY, AND DILLON FRANCIS)
  2. RED GUITAR
  3. IF LYRICS WERE CONFIDENTIAL
  4. PROWLER
  5. BETTER THAN THERAPY
  6. NOBODY BUT YOU
  7. GWEN STEFANI
  8. NO NO NO NO NO
  9. PLAYING MUSIC
  10. MIRAGE
  11. TASTES LIKE TANGERINE
  12. ANY MINUTE NOW
  13. GIRLS NEED GUNS

Stream JINX in full here: https://waterparks.lnk.to/JINX

Waterparks writes anthems that define artistic eras, emotionally precise, sonically distinct, and color-coded. Awsten Knight, Geoff Wigington, and Otto Wood have built one of modern rock’s most vibrant, shapeshifting catalogs, reaching 1 billion streams and a No. 1 Alternative Album in the U.S.

For more information: https://www.waterparksband.com/

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