{"id":539470,"date":"2026-07-08T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:09:11","slug":"devendra-banhart-gyan-riley-and-noah-georgeson-launch-new-band-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539470\/","title":{"rendered":"Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley, and Noah Georgeson Launch New Band Hug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/288-devendra-banhart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devendra Banhart<\/a> has unveiled a new band with guitarist Gyan Riley and producer\/multi-instrumentalist Noah Georgeson called Hug. The trio will release their self-titled debut album on September 11, via David Byrne\u2019s <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.luakabop.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.luakabop.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luakabop.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luaka Bop<\/a> label. Check out their fall tour dates below, along with lead single \u201cCow With Half Moon Parasol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banhart and Georgeson are longtime collaborators, including on the 2021 ambient album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/devendra-banhart-noah-georgeson-refuge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Refuge<\/a>. Riley, the son of minimalist composer <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/11388-terry-riley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry<\/a>, and Georgeson were childhood friends. Riley said in a press release, \u201cBeing thirteen and completely obsessed with classical guitar, there were few people I could bond with over that\u2026. Basically just my teacher and Noah.\u201d When Georgeson finally introduced Riley to Banhart, years later in Brooklyn, \u201cEverything was sparkling and I felt like a little kid,\u201d says Banhart. \u201cAnd so I knew\u2014we must play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hug:<br \/>10-08 New York, NY &#8211; Le Poisson Rouge<br \/>10-09 North Adams, MA &#8211; MassMoCA<br \/>10-11 Frenchtown, PA &#8211; ArtYard<br \/>10-14 Minneapolis, MN &#8211; McGuire Theater at Walker Art Center<br \/>10-15 Chicago, IL &#8211; Constellation<br \/>11-18 Grass Valley, CA &#8211; The Center for the Arts<br \/>11-20 San Francisco, CA &#8211; Bimbo&#8217;s 365 Club<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Home Decor\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/%5BAlbum%20Art%5D%20HUG%20-%20.jpeg'HUG'.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hug:<br \/>01 Cow With Half Moon Parasol<br \/>02 Cucullatus Dream<br \/>03 Arunachala<br \/>04 Sarva Mangalam<br \/>05 Bathypelagic<br \/>06 Forgotten Gate<br \/>07 Homunculus in the Foliage<br \/>08 Near Death Ibiza<br \/>09 Petrichor<br \/>10 Lippuvuori<br \/>11 Catatumbo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devendra Banhart has unveiled a new band with guitarist Gyan Riley and producer\/multi-instrumentalist Noah Georgeson called Hug. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[643,93,61,60,278,1206],"class_list":["post-539470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}