Earlier this year, August Ponthier released their debut full-length album, Everywhere Isn’t Texas. They even celebrated the release with an in-store performance earlier this year at Spinster Records. To add to this landmark year, Ponthier is heading out on the road and will start hitting pen and paper.
Later this month, Ponthier will support Of Monsters and Men on tour throughout the Midwest and West Coast. Following that leg, they will support Lord Huron for a number of select shows in the Southeast. These shows will be performed as a duo and will be Ponthier’s first time playing many of these cities in support of Everywhere Isn’t Texas.
Appropriately to the album’s title — and despite our own personal feelings of FOMO — Ponthier has no Texas dates on the itinerary. Yet?
Also, last week, it was announced that Ponthier will expand their songwriting skills into prose. They recently signed a book deal with Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The title is already a familiar one.
Their debut novel, Everywhere Isn’t Texas, “follows a queer employee at a used electronics store in ’80s small-town Texas who is drawn into an alternate dimension through a mysterious TV,” per the publisher.
The book is slated for a June 2027 release during Pride month and timed for your summer reading selection.
–Rich Lopez