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b'We had the pleasure of interviewing Rare Americans over Zoom video!\\xa0

Vancouver\\u2019s\\xa0Rare Americans\\xa0invite listeners into a new world of percolating alt-pop and carnivalesque, backpack hip-hop with the announcement of their new album\\xa0Rare Americans 3: Jamesy Boy & The Screw Loose Zoo\\xa0out October 21st. Along with the announcement the band has shared the summer-soaked single\\xa0\\u201cHey Sunshine\\u201d\\xa0featuring a fleeting romance between a horse named Alfred and a cat.

Co-produced by the band alongside\\xa0Grammy\\xa0and\\xa0JUNO\\xa0winner\\xa0Chin Injeti (Drake,\\xa0Eminem)\\xa0and\\xa0Ben Kaplan (Snoop Dogg, Bootsy Collins, Shakira) who also won a\\xa0JUNO\\xa0for his work on Rare Americans\\u2019 \\u201cBrittle Bones Nicky\\u201d and also featuring two-time Grammy-nominee\\xa0D Smoke,\\xa0RA3\\xa0is set in the animated universe of Rhythm Kitchen.\\xa0
The story begins after Jamesy Boy (the album\'s protagonist) is invited to the Rhythm Kitchen by his mentor, who notices he is grappling with internal demons. Documented through a series of animated music videos, the new concept album\\xa0RA3\\xa0takes place during Jamesy Boy\\u2019s (AKA frontman James Priestner\'s) trip through Rhythm Kitchen. Each song is a memory rooted in\\xa0Priestner\'s real life.\\xa0\\xa0

But this album isn\'t just about Priestner - album track \\u201cPHD,\\u201d for example, highlights a fan and now close friend of the band, Nick, who was able to turn his life around after being misdiagnosed with bi-polar disorder at the age of 12. Nick is now in the process of receiving his \\u201cPHD\\u201d to help other kids in similar positions. Listeners will be able to see more of his story celebrated with an animated video character in the new album this fall.\\xa0

Since their debut in 2018,\\xa0Rare Americans\\xa0has amassed over\\xa0150M streams\\xa0as an independent band, were featured in Warner\\u2019s\\xa0Scoob! The Movie\\xa0and broke through the\\xa0Billboard Hot 100 album charts\\xa0with their independently released album\\xa0RA2. Their song \\u201cBaggage\\u201d recently\\xa0surpassed\\xa05 Million YouTube views\\xa0and is currently outranking\\xa0Machine Gun Kelly\\xa0and\\xa0St. Vincent\\xa0with the number two spot on Canada\\u2019s Breaking Alt "Alternative Specialty" chart. Revisit the \\u201cBaggage\\u201d video\\xa0HERE.

On\\xa0RA3\\xa0the four-piece band experiments not only with a new character-driven universe but with its widest variety of instruments to date. Listeners can expect ukulele, acoustic guitar, piano, Moog sub-bass, programmed drums, a melodica and more. Stay tuned for more to come from Rare Americans soon.
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ABOUT RARE AMERICANS
Rare Americans began its journey while James and his older brother of 11 years Jared, a co-writer but not performing member in the band, were on a vacation together in the Caribbean. James recalls jokingly saying to Jared, \\u201cWe should write some songs together,\\u201d to which Jared responded, \\u201cFuck that, what about an entire album?\\u201d A week and a half later, the two of them had created 15 songs in what would later become their eponymously-titled debut album. Since then, Rare Americans have rounded out the crew with the addition of Slovak guitarists Lubo Ivan and Jan Cajka, Ginger Chen on bass and drummer Duran Ritz. They\\u2019ve racked up over half a million monthly listeners on Spotify in the process.\\xa0

Rare Americans are telling their stories directly to anyone who wants \\u2014 or needs \\u2014 to listen. These tales are easy to relate to for anyone who\\u2019s been down or has struggled to keep up, yet are also laced with devilish optimism and hope. \\u201cWe\\u2019re trying to inspire and empower our fans,\\u201d Priestner states while discussing the band\\u2019s mission. \\u201cWe\\u2019re an independent band, the underdogs, and I think a lot of our fans relate to that.\\u201d

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