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Feb 25, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Avery Norman

Brooklyn-based band Momma are releasing a new album, Welcome to My Blue Sky, on April 4 via Polyvinyl/Lucky Number. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “Bottle Blonde,” via a music video self-directed by the band. Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Momma is Etta Friedman (songwriter/vocalist/guitarist), Allegra Weingarten (songwriter/vocalist/guitarist), Aron Kobayashi Ritch (producer/bassist), and Preston Fulks (drummer).

Friedman and Weingarten wrote “Bottle Blonde” and collectively had this to say about it in a press release: “We wrote this song as a letter to our past selves, when we were 23 and 24, stumbling through an extremely grueling tour that ended up taking a huge toll on our hearts and minds. We both had bleached hair and were in the midst of making huge decisions that would change our lives and also our perceptions of ourselves. The song started out as kind of an affirmation to our younger selves, that everything would be ok if you just follow your heart, but now looking back on it the lyrics could also be read as us talking to each other.”

Welcome to My Blue Sky includes “Ohio All the Time,” a new song the band shared in October that was one of our Songs of the Week. When the album was announced the band released its next single, “I Want You (Fever),” which was #1 on our Songs of the Week.

Ritch produced the album, which was recorded live with the full band at Studio G in Brooklyn.

“With this album we were less concerned with sounding cool and heavy and rock & roll and much more focused on good, clean songwriting that hopefully inspires people to sing along and mean every word,” said Weingarten in a previous press release.

In 2023 Momma released the single “Bang Bang.” It was also one of our Songs of the Week, but it’s not featured on the new album.

Momma’s last album, Household Name, came out in 2022 via Polyvinyl.

Read our review of Household Name.

Momma 2025 Tour Dates:

4/25 - Columbus, OH - Skully’s Music Diner ^
4/26 - Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall ^
4/28 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West ^
4/29 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East ^
4/30 - Memphis, TN - Growlers ^
5/2 - Houston, TX - Last Concert Cafe ^ !
5/3 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips ^ !
5/4 - Austin, TX - Mohawk ^ !
5/6 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
5/9 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre *
5/10 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall *
5/12 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater *
5/13 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret *
5/14 - Seattle, WA - Neumos *
5/16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Block Party
5/16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge (KBP After Party) *
5/17 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theater *
5/19 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line *
5/20 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall *
5/22 - Toronto, ON - Axis *
5/23 - Ottawa, ON - Club SAW *
5/24 - Montreal, QC - Theatre Fairmount *
5/28 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair *
5/29 - Washington, DC - The Atlantis *
5/30 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
5/31 - New York, NY - Warsaw *
06/04 - 08 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera Sound
06/12 - 15 - Porto, PT - NOS Primavera Sound Festival
06/13 - London, UK - Outbreak Festival
06/14 - Manchester, UK - Outbreak Festival

^ with support from Brennan Wedl
! with support from On Being An Angel
* with support from Wishy

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