{"id":674968,"date":"2026-11-04T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674968\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:48:11","slug":"greta-van-fleet-interview-changing-audience-new-album-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674968\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Van Fleet Interview: Changing Audience, New Album, Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen Greta Van Fleet<\/a> played their first major shows in Nashville in 2017, at the now-defunct Mercy Lounge, the audience skewed heavily male, older, and classic rock. Led Zeppelin<\/a> T-shirts were ubiquitous. But when the Michigan group headlined Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena in 2023, a sea change had seemingly occurred: fans were younger, wearing sequins and glitter, and, in some cases, waving tiny rainbow flags.<\/p>\n

\n\tGreta Van Fleet\u2019s lead singer, Josh Kiszka, says the band noticed it firsthand from the stage. He chalks it up, in part, to the members\u2019 own ages \u2014 they\u2019re all 30, or just shy of \u2014 and their embrace of timeless rock & roll.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur reach became much further and there were these kids hearing that music for the first time and seeing people their age playing that music. \u2018Oh, this is mine? This is part of my culture too,\u2019\u201d Kiszka tells Rolling Stone\u2019s Nashville Now podcast. \u201cRock & roll is very eclectic and elastic and all encompassing. I think that\u2019s a testament to the music and the message, but also it\u2019s still so relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKiszka moved to Nashville with his guitarist brother Jake Kiszka in 2020; their other brother Sam Kiszka, who plays bass, and drummer Daniel Wagner followed shortly after. Since then, they\u2019ve become a vital part of Nashville\u2019s rock scene and recently headlined three intimate club shows at the Basement East. The audience there, like at Bridgestone Arena, leaned younger, but Josh Kiszka, who publicly came out<\/a> in June 2023, says it\u2019s often a mix.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe noticed that in all of these bigger venues we\u2019re playing, these kids, their parents, and their grandparents, in that order, from the front of the stage. We have generations going on,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd it didn\u2019t matter where they were from, or their age difference, everybody was excited to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGreta Van Fleet released their latest album Palace for the People in October. They\u2019ll return to arenas in February when they kick off the Into the Beginning Tour. (The group pledged to sell all tickets at face value, plus fees. No platinum tickets will be available.) The shows hit venues like Barclays Center in Brooklyn, TD Garden in Boston, and Bridgestone in Nashville. There\u2019s also a string of U.K. and European dates, including a May stop at London\u2019s O2 Arena.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDownload and subscribe to\u00a0Rolling Stone\u2019s country-music podcast,\u00a0Nashville Now<\/a>, hosted by deputy editor, head of country Joseph Hudak, on\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/a>Spotify<\/a>\u00a0(or wherever you get your podcasts). New episodes drop every Wednesday and feature interviews with artists and personalities like Shania Twain, Shaboozey, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Lainey Wilson, Sheryl Crow, Ashley McBryde, Brothers Osborne, Midland, Maggie Rose, Hardy, Charley Crockett, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Kings of Leon, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, the Black Crowes, Braxton Keith, Carly Pearce, Amy Grant, Luke Grimes, Brandon Lake, Breland, Bryan Andrews, Noeline Hofmann, Adam Mac, Aaron Raitiere, Devon Gilfillian, Gavin Adcock, Amanda Shires, Shooter Jennings, Margo Price, Michaela Anne, Ink, Ne-Yo, Rival Sons\u2019 Jay Buchanan, Halestorm, Dusty Slay, Lukas Nelson, Ashley Monroe, Old Crow Medicine Show\u2019s Ketch Secor, Clever,\u00a0Love on the Spectrum\u2019s Tyler White, Willie Nelson scholar John Spong, and authors Marissa R. Moss, Josh Crutchmer, Mark Gray, and Jonathan Bernstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Greta Van Fleet played their first major shows in Nashville in 2017, at the now-defunct Mercy Lounge,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,63977,61,60,278,86280],"class_list":["post-674968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-greta-van-fleet","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-nashville-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674968","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=674968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}