Evan Stephens Hall: Last News

Pinegrove have announced a hiatus, as well as the departure of drummer and founding member Zack Levine – marking “the end of an era”.The band have announced that they will be going on an indefinite hiatus “on a more casual basis”, with each member focusing on different side projects. Frontman Evan Stephens Hall shared in a lengthy Instagram post that “Pinegrove is not over, but it seems this era is.”“After a lot of touring in ’22 you may have noticed we’ve been taking some time to regroup,” Hall wrote.

Pinegrove have shared their first new music of 2021: a single, entitled ‘Orange’.The song, released today (August 26), follows on from the band’s quasi-live record ‘Amperland, NY’ from January. It ostensibly served as the soundtrack album to the band’s film of the same name, which was performed in and around the house in which the band’s core members lived together up until said house was sold.‘Orange’ is also the first new studio recording from the band since their third album, 2020’s ‘Marigold’.

Pinegrove have released an updated version of their 2012 song ‘Morningtime’, taken from the soundtrack for their new film Amperland, NY.Based on a short story by Pinegrove frontman Evan Stephens Hall and directed by Kenna Hynes, the film is inspired by the upstate New York home the band lived in and recorded their albums ‘Skylight’ and ‘Marigold’ in.According to Hall, Amperland, NY is a “surreal, giddy narrative” that features “reimaginings of our songbook and first-time-imaginings of Pinegrovian tall tales”.The feature-length film will premiere during a ticketed streaming event on January 13, during which Pinegrove will hold a Q&A moderated by Busy Philipps. It will then be released digitally on January 15.