{"id":563732,"date":"2026-08-09T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563732\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:10:08","slug":"role-models-new-era-comes-full-circle-with-sold-out-hometown-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563732\/","title":{"rendered":"ROLE MODEL&#8217;s new era comes full circle with sold-out hometown show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/676813_7872622_updates.jpg\" alt=\"ROLE MODEL\u2019s new era comes full circle with sold-out hometown show\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ROLE MODEL\u2019s new era comes full circle with sold-out hometown show<\/p>\n<p>ROLE MODEL brought his latest musical chapter back to where it all began. <\/p>\n<p>Returning to his home state of Maine on Saturday night, August 8, the singer, whose real name is Tucker Harrington Pillsbury, performed at a hometown show celebrating the release of his third studio album, Chuck Timely &amp; The Hourglass.<\/p>\n<p>A Little More Time singer performed at Thompson\u2019s Point in Portland for the sold-out Chuck Comes Home \u2013 Album Release Show.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine-born artist has increasingly leaned into a more guitar-driven, emotionally open sound over the course of his career.<\/p>\n<p>His 2022 debut, Rx, was a confessional, genre-blurring pop record, while his 2024 follow-up, Kansas Anymore, moved further toward folk-tinged songwriting and explored homesickness, heartbreak and personal change.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Timely &amp; The Hourglass continues that evolution. The 12-track album includes songs such as High Hopes 3000, Love I You, Chasing Midnight, Joy, Honeydew, Stain, The Wedding and Harmony.<\/p>\n<p>The project also finds ROLE MODEL balancing humor with more vulnerable reflections on love, time and growing older.<\/p>\n<p>The album&#8217;s title character, Chuck Timely, has been described as representing a feeling of being emotionally stuck while trying to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>The hometown performance wasn&#8217;t simply another stop on an album-release run.<\/p>\n<p>It marked a full-circle moment for an artist who started making music nearly a decade ago and has since moved from the bedroom-pop scene into a much broader pop and folk-influenced sound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROLE MODEL\u2019s new era comes full circle with sold-out hometown show ROLE MODEL brought his latest musical chapter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-563732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}