Sammy Rae & The Friends recently announced their glorious debut album, Something For
Everybody out September 20th via Nettwerk. Today, the collective shares the laid-back and
steamy “No Rulebook,” the latest single from the forthcoming album, along with a scholastic
video directed by Ryan Sheehy.

“If you look too deeply into it, it’s a song about taking the pressure off of being physically intimate
with someone for the first time, and just going with the flow,” notes Sammy of the track. “Mostly,
its a song about taking the pressure off of absolutely everything in life and going with the flow. It’s
a song about doing your own thing and making your own rules, because that’s actually what
everyone else around you is also doing. It’s a song about what a lot of Friends songs are about…
not taking anything too seriously.”

As a child Sammy Rae had an “aha” moment, while watching an episode of Vh1’s Behind The
Music on Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Though she was already writing songs and
playing music at a young age, a different type of ambition struck her – she wanted to be a band
leader. It was at this moment that the idea for her musical project was born. She went on to
establish a group of remarkable musicians, each with their own unique talent and together an
unstoppable collective. In the last few months Sammy Rae has released “I Get It Now,” “Thieves”
and “Coming Home Song,” and together they mark the first three releases of new recorded music
since she burst onto the scene with her two EPs The Good Life (2018) and Let’s Throw a Party
(2021). Since those early releases, Sammy Rae & The Friends have become a juggernaut. With
a live experience that fans liken to church…or communion, however you see it, it’s an exultation
and a cathartic release like no other musical act can offer. In the few years since she started
workshopping her live show at NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall, she’s grown to selling out 5000 cap
venues from London to LA and continues to add to her fervent fanbase.

Sammy Rae & The Friends have announced a major North American tour taking place this fall.
The dates will kick off on September 30th at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, PA and include several
multi-night residencies including Showbox SoDo in Seattle, WA on October 11th and 12th, two
hometown shows at Terminal 5 in New York City on November 8th and 9th, Academy of Music
in Northampton, MA on November 12th and 13th and a return Roadrunner in Boston on
November 15th and 16th. Drag Queen and environmental and LGBTQ activist Pattie Gonia will
open several of the dates on the tour. A full list of tour dates are below and for more details and
to purchase tickets visit https://www.sammyrae.com. A portion of the proceeds from this tour will
go to the Ally Coalition and their work supporting LGBTQ youth across the country.
In addition to the US dates, Sammy Rae & The Friends have just announced new EU and UK
dates where her global success is on full display. In London she’ll play the 02 Brixton Academy,
a 5000 capacity venue and will play other venues throughout the UK with which can hold
thousands of her fans. Her remarkable ticket sales success has been due in large part to her
exhilarating live show, launching her into bigger and bigger venues with each return.

For as much as Sammy Rae & The Friends may be a band, this collective of dreamers and artists
considers themselves a family first. They flourish in any spotlight with a combination of all-for-one
and one-for-all camaraderie, palpable chemistry, deft virtuosity, and vocal fireworks. Their sound
is a mélange of Sammy’s influences, rooted in classic rock, folk, and funk and sprinkled with soul
and jazz. Complete with a rhythm section and two saxophones, The Friends had a stellar year of
high-energy performances throughout 2023 playing their biggest shows and festivals to date,
including Central Park Summerstage, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, and their first-ever
international headline tour, which saw them selling out venues from North America to the UK and
Europe, including London’s 5,000 cap Apollo Theatre two times.
Rae has been building toward this moment since moving to NYC from Connecticut in her early
20s. Finding herself without a built-in peer group, she simply built it herself: the literal and
proverbial “Friends.” When she started playing shows, she made sure the audience was part of
the family too. Everything that’s happened since, from the EPs to sold-out shows in major markets
and secondary markets alike across North America and the UK & Europe, to high-profile festival
sets around the world, including Bonnaroo’s main stage, Sound on Sound and more, has been
based on friends telling friends.

As they prepare for the release of Something For Everybody, Sammy Rae & The Friends have
come to represent more than just a band: they are a full-on movement being adopted with a
refreshingly diverse clientele.

2025 NL tour dates
Feb 11 – Netherlands, Den Haag – Paard
Feb 12 – Netherlands, Amsterdam – Paradiso
Feb 13 – Netherlands, Eindhoven – De Effenaar