On March 8, 2024, the band’s ninth studio album Super Magick was announced, and the single “Live a Little” was released. After some brief delays, Super Magick was released on May 3, 2024, on Round Hill Records.
In October 2022, during their “Legends of the Fall” tour, Griffin revealed that the band would be releasing a new album in 2023. “Mystified”, a single from the forthcoming album, was released on July 18, 2023. The band’s latest single, “Contact High”, was released on November 3, 2023.
On August 13–14, 2021, Better Than Ezra played a pair of sold-out shows at the House of Blues New Orleans in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their second album Friction, Baby . During these shows, the band played the album in its entirety, as well as some other…
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On February 10, 2014, it was announced that the band had signed with The End Records for the release of their eighth studio album. The album, All Together Now , was released on September 9, 2014.
On August 29, 2014, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Surprise was released. According to original drummer Cary Bonnecaze, “The family of Joel Rundell (our original guitarist who passed away in 1990) and I own the original recording, and we thought that with 2014 being the 25th anniversary of its original…
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On May 22, 2013, Griffin confirmed that the band plans to release their first new album since 2009 later in the year.
Closer was released on August 7, 2001. Better Than Ezra launched a tour in support of the album on July 26, 2001. The first single off the album, “Extra Ordinary”, which had been mixed by DJ Swamp, was inspired by an AC/DC song. The album’s promotion hit a snag after…
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Longtime drummer Travis McNabb left Better Than Ezra in February 2009 and their last performance together was Family Gras in Metairie, Louisiana . The primary reason given for his departure was the demand on his time by country and bluegrass group, Sugarland , with whom McNabb had previously been touring…
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A Greatest Hits collection was released on March 15, 2005, through Rhino Entertainment , a division of the Warner Music Group .
The band’s sixth studio album Before the Robots (Artemis Records) was released on May 31, 2005. In 2005, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry used the band’s song ” Juicy ” as the background music for the second season of the show’s promotional advertisements, which Griffin credited with bringing attention to…
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