[Cover photo credit to Christian Harder]
New York-based artist The Bones of J.R. Jones has released his new single “Shameless,” the latest offering from his sixth studio album, Radio Waves, due out June 20, 2025 via Tone Tree Music. The new song arrives with a neo-noir-inspired music video, produced by Blackhorse Lowe (Reservation Dogs) and Bryan Norvelle with Anora Cinematographer Drew Daniels as Director of Photography, and tells the story of a lover’s betrayal.
The project’s creative center, Jonathon Linaberry, says about “Shameless”:
‘Shameless’ is taking the long way home to retread your past. The inevitable inner conflict and perhaps guilt that rise up from past decisions, that were maybe made in haste and in passion. I think we all struggle with the ‘what could have been’ question. What arrogant fool can’t look back and wonder? I am just trying to recognize that in this song.
On the music video, he adds:
I have always been drawn to an unsatisfying ambiguous ending. Endings that are never explained, nor make sense in the straight line of a narrative. I think because much of life feels this way. We never get to make sense of so many things. Human nature isn’t logical … it just doesn’t work that way. It’s chaos and we do our best to control it. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we fail. It’s this recognition that makes the noir genre so appealing and that’s what we tried to create here in three short minutes.
Radio Waves Album Release Tour:
5/8 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street *
5/9 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge *
5/10 – Ithaca, NY – Hangar Theatre
5/13 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle *
5/14 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 *
5/15 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood *
5/16 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5 *
5/17 – Nashville, TN – Row One Stage *
6/12 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s +
6/13 – Boston, MA – Brighton +
6/14 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse +
6/15 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground +
6/17 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz +
6/18 – Ottawa, ON – Rainbow Bistro +
6/19 – Toronto, ON – Sound Garage +
6/21 – Andes, NY – Andes Hootenanny
* with Ruen Brothers
+ with Nigel Wearne
