NEW MUSIC: TRAIN | AM GOLD

As the world gradually returns to normal, San Francisco rockers. Train is getting back on track with a new album and tour. "AM Gold," the band’s 11th studio album and first in five years, is set to drop May 20 via Columbia Records — and the energetic, lush title track is available now. Not long after "AM Gold" drops, Pat Monahan and Co. will hit the road for an extensive summer tour featuring special guests Jewel and Blues Traveler. “Writing songs for two and a half years in front of video screens instead of being in the presence of other humans has been a long, strange trip. And now here we are,” frontman Monahan says. “It has to start with love. Love that goes into work comes out of work. We love this song, this album, and our fans. Thank you for waiting so long for us.” Jewel and Blues Traveler — along with Thunderstorm Artis and Will Anderson on select dates — will support Train on their Save Me San Francisco Wine Co Presents Train – "AM Gold" Tour, which kicks off on June 8 in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Following stops in New York State and New Jersey, the band will head through Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The tour will then hit Nashville on June 21, ahead of a swing through Florida. Although Train hasn’t released an album since 2017’s "A Girl, A Bottle, A Boat," which reached No. 8 on the Billboard 200, the pandemic wasn’t entirely quiet for Pat Monahan. His Taylor Swift co-write “Babe,” initially turned into a top 10 Hot Country Songs hit by Sugarland, found its way onto Taylor Swift’s Billboard 200-topping album "Red (Taylor’s Version)" last year.