The Wallflowers

The Wallflowers perform at the Lensic this September! On July 9 they release Exit Wounds, their first new album in nearly a decade.

Exit Wounds was produced by Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Weezer), mixed by Chris Dugan (Green Day), and features the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne on four songs. While it’s been nearly a decade since we’ve heard from the group with whom Jakob Dylan first made his mark, he always knew they’d return. “The Wallflowers is much of my life’s work,” he says simply. The much-anticipated record finds the band’s signature sound—lean, potent, and eminently entrancing—intact.

For the past 30 years, The Wallflowers have stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands—a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse as well as more recent and exploratory fare like 2012’s Glad All Over.