[Cover photo credit to Veronica Sams]

Duff McKagan has has released two new songs, “Heroes” and “True To The Death Rock ‘n Roll Ballad”. The first track is a cover of David Bowie’s classic, and the other side of the double single is an original. They arrive to kick off McKagan’s Lighthouse Tour ‘24, a world headline run getting underway September 30th, 2024 at Dublin, Ireland’s The Academy. US dates begin November 4 at Boston, MA’s Paradise Rock Club.

Duff McKagan explains:

We thought it was good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour. Choosing David Bowie’s HEROES seemed to be a natural subject matter for me (I am of course, a massive history nerd)…star-crossed lovers in the shadow of the mid-70’s cold-war era Berlin Wall. To try and compliment this era, I chose a sort of 70’s glam-rock song that I wrote some time last year, TRUE TO THE DEATH ROCK N ROLL BALLAD, another lyric where love and lust and time are the central figures. We hope you dig this ‘single’ and thank you all for just being you!

McKagan has also announced a Black Friday Record Store Day (Nov. 29, 2024) exclusive RSD vinyl LP release of his performance at Easy Street Records in Seattle, WA on December 8, 2023. The set contains tracks from McKagan’s recent album Lighthouse and This is the Song EP.

SEPTEMBER

30 – Dublin, Ireland – Dublin Academy *

OCTOBER

2 – Glasgow, Scotland – The Garage *

3 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy 2 *

5 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall *

7 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg *

8 – Cologne, Germany – Die Kantine *

9 – Munich, Germany – Freiheitshalle *

11 – Brno, Czech Republic – Sono Centrum *

13 – Warsaw, Poland – Klub Stodola *

14 – Berlin, Germany – Heimathafen Neukölln *

16 – Milan, Italy – Magazzini Generali *

17 – Solothurn, Switzerland – Kulturfabrik Kofmehl *

19 – Liege, Belgium – OM *

20 – Paris, France – La Trianon *

22 – Stockholm, Sweden – Nalen *

NOVEMBER

4 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club †

6 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge †

8 – Chicago, IL – Outset †

10 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater †

13 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey ^

18 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater +

20 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox +

* w/ James and the Cold Gun

† w/ Lee Ving’s Range War

^ w/ Grace McKagan

+ w/ Joey “Sh*thead” Keithley