| ROLE MODEL RELEASES KANSAS ANYMORE (THE LONGEST GOODBYE) VIA INTERSCOPE RECORDS Deluxe Digital Version Of His New Album Includes Viral Lead Single, “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out,” Plus Three Additional New Tracks Sold-Out North American Leg Of No Place Like Tour World Tour Launches February 24In Phoenix  |
| On his acclaimed 2024 sophomore album, Kansas Anymore, Role Model laid his heart bare and fans embraced him as he grieved his previous relationship on the set of folk-tinged, lyric-driven songs. Combined global streams of the album quickly surpassed 139 million and 90 thousand tickets to the No Place Like Tour were snapped up around the globe. Now Role Model is back, charting his emotional journey with four new songs included in the album’s digital deluxe edition. Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye) was released today via Interscope Records. Listen HERE. See below for track listing. Noah Conrad (Niall Horan, Ashe) – one of Role Model’s collaborators on the album’s 13 original songs – produced each of the four new songs, with Mason Stoops co-producing the final track, “The Longest Goodbye.” On the infectious “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out,” Role Model ventures tentatively into a new romance, pleading, “Sally/That feeling’s coming around/Please don’t go falling in love/Then disappear when the wine runs out.” Listen HERE. After Role Model teased the track, “Sally” began trending on TikTok and now has 35,000 creates and 150 million views on the platform. Role Modelintroduced “Sally” earlier this month on the Australian/New Zealand leg of his tour. Lyric videos debuted today for each of the four new songs. View HERE. “Old Recliners” is a slice of bittersweet nostalgia, celebrating simple but meaningful rituals. Role Model finds it hard to resist his guardian instincts on “Some Protector”and, as he brings things to a conclusion with the old-timey “The Longest Goodbye,” he confides, “And I don’t think I love you anymore/But I don’t think I’ll ever be so sure.” On February 24, Role Model will kick off the North American leg of the No Place Like Tour world tour in Phoenix at The Van Buren. As the dates quickly sold out, additional shows were added. The run includes shows at New York’s Brooklyn Paramount (March 15) and The Wiltern in Los Angeles (April 1& 2). Debbii Dawson is supporting on all dates except Denver. See below for itinerary or visit https://RoleModel.lnk.to/NPLTour. Following the tour, Role Model will play numerous festivals, including The Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Hinterland. After releasing Kansas Anymorein summer 2024 and supporting Gracie Abrams on her sold-out fall tour, Role Model found many new fans and has seen explosive growth on social media, gaining over 340 million new followers. He’ll join Abrams on the summer 2025 North American leg of The Secret of Us tour. Awarding Kansas Anymore four stars, DIYmarveled that “a record ostensibly about heartbreak and homesickness can be so overwhelmingly fun, using both genre and trope in parallel ways with just the right level of self-awareness and humour along the way…” In another four-star review, Dork observed, “Role Model’s latest is an artful deviation from his debut, ‘Rx.’ It more boldly leans into folkish roots, choosing breezy, sun-tinged melodies even when navigating the album’s subject matter feels treacherous.” Track Listing – Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye)(new songs in bold) 1. Writing’s On The Wall2. Look At That Woman3. Scumbag4. Oh, Gemini5. Frances6. Superglue7. The Dinner8. Deeply Still In Love9. Slut Era Interlude10. So Far Gone (feat. Lizzy McAlpine)11. Slipfast12. Compromise13. Something, Somehow, Someday14. Old Recliners15. Sally, When The Wine Runs Out16. Some Protector17. The Longest Goodbye Role Model The No Place Like Tour World TourNorth American Leg February 202524 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren + SOLD OUT27 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues + SOLD OUT28 – Houston, TX – House of Blues + SOLD OUT March 20252 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater + SOLD OUT4 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues + SOLD OUT5 – Tampa, FL – The RITZ Ybor + SOLD OUT7 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle+ SOLD OUT8 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works + SOLD OUT9 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore + SOLD OUT 11 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club + (not a Live Nation show) SOLD OUT12 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club + (not a Live Nation show) SOLD OUT14 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore + SOLD OUT15 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount + SOLD OUT16 – Boston, MA – House of Blues + SOLD OUT18 – Montréal, QC – MTELUS + SOLD OUT19 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY + SOLD OUT20 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore + SOLD OUT22 – Columbus, OH – The Bluestone + SOLD OUT23 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre + SOLD OUT25 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee + SOLD OUT26 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore + SOLD OUT28 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore SOLD OUT29 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center + SOLD OUT April 20251 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern + SOLD OUT2 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern + SOLD OUT3 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater + (not a Live Nation show) SOLD OUT5 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom + SOLD OUT6 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo + (not a Live Nation show) + SOLD OUT7 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom + SOLD OUT8 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom + SOLD OUT10 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo + (not a Live Nation show) + SOLD OUT + Debbii Dawson supporting  |
| Role Model Photo Credit: Neema Sadeghi About Role ModelRole Model’s been in love. He was so in love he wrote his entire debut album Rx about it. But not all romances last forever, and the 27-year-old’s grieving of his last relationship is at the center of his sophomore album Kansas Anymore. With over 139 million streams to date, Kansas Anymore is a folk-tinged, lyric-driven album that encapsulates the warmth and comfort Role Model was seeking out when he wrote it. Featuring viral singles “Deeply Still in Love” and “Frances,” the album was a two-year writing process, and includes production from Noah Conrad, Ian Fitchuk, Scott Harris and Jonah Shy. Now 27, Role Model initially gained traction with a string of independent singles in 2017, receiving co-signs from Benny Blanco and the late legend Mac Miller. He unassumingly caught fire with projects such as the oh, how perfect and our little angel EPs. In 2021, “forever&more” racked up 60 million Spotify streams as OnesToWatch christened it “one of our favorite songs of the summer.” DIY pegged him among its “Class of 2022,” and he embarked on a massive world tour with stops at Coachella, Hangout Music Festival, Bonnaroo and more. After attaining hundreds of millions of streams and selling out headline shows, Role Model released his full-length debut album, Rx, in 2022, which earned acclaim from HYPEBEAST, Interview, FLAUNT, People, CLASH Magazine and more. With the deluxe edition of his new album out now, Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), Role Model is thrilled to be playing these songs live, but more than anything, he’s embracing the sense of pride — and closure — he feels about making the album, about turning a personally heavy season of life into something that might move others. As rough as it was to ride that roller coaster of heartbreak and homesickness, Role Model feels these are the greatest songs he’s made yet. |
