Muna premiered the official music video for their new single “Loudspeaker.”
This video was a very collaborative process between us and the director, Zaiba Jabbar. We wanted to portray ourselves and our friends as empowered anti-heroines who reclaim a space to explore and be free. As one of the few self-produced girl bands signed to a major, we have learned to be as self-assured as we are self-sufficient—and we’ve learned to thrive on that. Breaking into a building and claiming it as our own is kind of a metaphor for that experience. Though the song deals with using one’s voice to recover from different forms of abuse, we were interested in filling this video with triumphant imagery rather than imagery of subjugation. It was also important for us to include people in the video who have found their own mediums for self-expression in spite of a multiplicity of silencing forces. Anaka, Pierre, Phoenix, Jasmine, Arin, Sarah, and Ashlen are writers, photographers, designers, poets, musicians, and general creatives that inspire us and our music, so it felt right to pay homage to that in the video. Having a community filled with people we can be open with without shame has allowed us to grow into the band we are today.
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The Los Angeles trio will be supporting Grouplove on their North American Fall tour kicking off October 5th in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tour Dates with Grouplove:
WED 10/5 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
THU 10/6 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
FRI 10/7 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
MON 10/10 Vancouver, Canada Commodore Ballroom
THU 10/13 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
FRI 10/14 Seattle, WA Crocodile Café
MON 10/17 Salt Lake City, UT Grand at the Complex
TUE 10/18 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
SAT 10/22 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
SUN 10/23 Madison, WI Orpheum Theater
TUE 10/25 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room – Old National Centre
THU 10/27 Columbus, OH Express Live!
SAT 10/29 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
SUN 10/30 Toronto, Canada Danforth Music Hall
MON 10/31 Montreal, Canada Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre
TUE 11/1 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
THU 11/3 Boston, MA House of Blues
SAT 11/5 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
WED 11/9 Washington, D.C. Echostage
THU 11/10 Norfolk, VA The Norva
SAT 11/12 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom
SUN 11/13 New Orlans, LA House of Blues
TUE 11/15 Dallas, TX House of Blues
WED 11/16 Houston, TX House of Blues
FRI 11/18 Austin, TX Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater