Japanese Breakfast play their song "Road Head" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, California on November 7, 2021. Road Head first appeared on the American Sound EP (2014) with a newer version released on the album Soft Sounds From Another Planet (2017). Japanese Breakfast is an indie rock band headed by Michelle Zauner (lead vocals / guitar / keyboards) with Peter Bradley (guitar), Craig Hendrix (drums), and Deven Craige (bass). Joining them onstage were Adam Schatz (saxophone / keyboards) and Emily Wells (violin / keyboards).

Zauner discussed Road Head with NPR: "I wrote it about someone I dated who made me feel like I wasn’t cut out for my own music career. It’s sort of about that really ugly moment when you try to do something sexually wild to save a relationship, only to make it more painfully apparent that it’s not going to work. The second verse has a quote from something I read about Tammy Wynette. I really fell for Tammy about a year ago. I love the sort of tongue-in-cheek melodrama of her songs. I read that when she left her first husband to pursue a career in music, he told her ‘dream on, baby.’ Years later, after she was famous, he attended one of her shows and asked for her autograph. She signed it ‘dream on, baby.’"

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Road Head lyrics:

You gave road head
On a turnpike exit
Going home, going home
Last ditch desperate, like a makeshift siphon
Pump and run, pump and run
Pump and run, pump and run

Run!

“Dream on, baby,” were his last words to me
“Dream on, baby”
So dreaming baby took that corkscrewed highway
Lightless miles of big rigs
Lightless miles, miles and miles

Home
Home
Home
Home
Home

Written by Michelle Zauner

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Japanese Breakfast official bio:

From the moment she began writing her new album, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (@jbrekkie) knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time—a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother‘s death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world.

In the years leading up to Jubilee, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: “I’ve never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer, a producer, an arranger.” She pours that sentiment into the album from the very beginning.

Jubilee is an album about processing life and love in the quest for happiness, and how that process sometimes requires us to step outside of ourselves. Throughout Jubilee, Zauner is hardly fictionalizing her lyrics, instead pouring her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution—these things take real time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it.

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Jubilee live tour dates:

Sept. 9-10 - Boston, MA @ Royale
Sept. 11 - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony Summer Stage
Sept. 12 - Harrisburg, PA @ Midtown Arts Center
Sept. 14 - Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre
Sept. 15-16 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sept. 17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
Sept. 18 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Sept. 19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Sept. 21 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight
Sept. 23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
Sept 24 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
Sept. 25-27 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
Sept. 28 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Sept. 30 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct. 1 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct. 2-3 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theatre
Oct. 4 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Oct. 5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
Oct. 7 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Oct. 8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Oct. 9 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
Oct. 10 - St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
Oct. 11-12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Oct. 14-17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Oct. 29 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory
Oct. 30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Oct. 31 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation)
Nov. 1 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Nov. 3 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
Nov. 4 - Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium
Nov. 7 - Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre
Nov. 9 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
Nov. 11 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery
Nov. 12 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ The Alex Madonna Expo Center
Nov. 13 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
Nov. 14 - Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Nov. 15-16 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House

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