Portugal. The Man: The Denali Tour
SaSaZu, Bubenské nábřeží 306, 17000 Praha 7 Directions
Sat 21.11.2026 00:00
Uplatňuje se transakční poplatek ve výši 30 Kč. DOORS: 19:00 Portugal. The Man darují €1 z každé prodané vstupenky na podporu iniciativ Pass The Mic a Frances Changed My Life. Američtí rockeři a držitelé Grammy Portugal. The Man míří na sólovou show do Prahy! Kromě nejnovějšího singlu "Denali" přivezou fanouškům i svoje osvědčené hitovky. Kapela vystoupí 21. listopadu 2026 v SaSaZu. Portugal. The Man se proslavili svou originální kombinací rocku, psychedelie, popu a elektroniky. Jejich hudba je charakteristická chytlavými melodiemi, vrstevnatým zvukem a texty, které často nesou společenský nebo politický podtext. V roce se 2017 posunuli na úplně novou úroveň díky albu Woodstock, které si vysloužilo platinovou desku od RIAA. Největší zásluhu na tom měl jejich chytlavý hit „Feel It Still" -- ten kapele přinesl cenu GRAMMY za Nejlepší popové duo/skupinové vystoupení, sedminásobnou platinovou certifikaci, rekordních 20 týdnů na prvním místě alternativního rádia a silné zastoupení v hitparádách Top 40. Za hudebními úspěchy ale stojí i jejich dlouhodobý zájem o sociální spravedlnost. Právě spojení hudby a aktivismu je pro Portugal. The Man nejpřirozenější. V roce 2020 proto založili Pass The Mic Foundation, která se zaměřuje na lidská práva, zdraví komunit a ochranu životního prostředí, přičemž velký důraz klade na podporu původních obyvatel. Mezi organizace, které nadace podporuje, patří například Alaska Native Health, poskytující špičkovou zdravotní péči domorodým komunitám na Aljašce, nebo Seeding Sovereignty, jež se věnuje otázkám půdy, potravin a suverenity domorodých národů.
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Portugal. The Man
Well, we’re two full months into 2017 and the world continues to burn like an avalanche of flaming biohazard material sliding down a mountain of used needles into a canyon full of rat feces. But hey, it’s not all bad: Portugal. The Man has a new album coming out called Woodstock.
PTM’s last album came out over three years ago—a long gap for a band who’ve dropped roughly an album a year since 2006. And in true, prolific band fashion, they’ve spent almost every minute since 2013 working on an album called Gloomin + Doomin. They created a shit-ton of individual songs, but as a whole, none of them hung together in a way that felt right. Then John Gourley, PTM’s lead singer, made a trip home to Wasilla, Alaska, (Home of Portugal. The Man’s biggest fan, Sarah Palin) and two things happened that completely changed the album’s trajectory.
First, John got some parental tough love from his old man, who called John on the proverbial carpet or dogsled or whatever you put people on when you want to yell at them in Alaska. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?” John’s dad said. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” Like fathers and unlicensed therapists tend to do, John’s dad cut him deep. The whole thing started John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and, more importantly, about how to get off of it.
Second, fate stuck its wiener in John’s ear again when he found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. It seems like a small thing, but talking to his dad about Woodstock ’69 knocked something loose in John’s head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them. With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and they threw it out.
It wasn’t easy and there was the constant threat that the band's record label might have them killed, but the totally insane decision paid off. With new, full-on, musical boners, the band went back to the studio—working with John Hill (In The Mountain In The Cloud), Danger Mouse (Evil Friends), Mike D (Everything Cool), and longtime collaborator Casey Bates (The one consistent producer since the first record). In this new-found creative territory, the album that became Woodstock rolled out naturally from there
Remember that mountain of burning needles we were talking about? Good. Because Woodstock is an album (Including the new single “Feel It Still”) that—with optimism and heart—points at the giant pile and says, “Hey, this pile is fucked up!” And if you think that pile is fucked up too, you owe it to yourself—hell, to all of us—to get out there and do something about it.
