On the road with Momma

That is Tour Diary, the place artists give us a behind-the-scenes have a look at life on the highway. All yr lengthy, Momma have been driving the excessive of 2025’s Welcome to My Blue Sky, a deeply hooky, coming-of-age album that friends into heartbreak, touring life, and friendship. Throughout its promotional cycle, vocalist/guitarist Allegra Weingarten advised an interviewer, “I feel we simply acquired higher at songwriting. I’m making an attempt to deflect a number of the assumptions that we sat down and have been like, ‘We’re going to make a pop document. We’re going to make radio hits.’ In a approach, the document appears like that, however that wasn’t as a result of we have been making an attempt to do it.” Certainly, Welcome to My Blue Sky actually does sound like that. It’s acquired grunge-y odes to Ohio, throwbacks to ’90s MTV, and isn’t afraid to get slightly nü steel — all whereas sounding true to themselves. The album introduced them their very own headlining tour, slots with Courtney Barnett, and appearances at numerous festivals.

Learn extra: Backstage with Basement

Earlier than they go on tour with Basement subsequent month, Momma took us via among the highlights from their present run. That included consuming oysters at nighttime, catching a Trixie Mattel DJ set, and celebrating bassist/producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch’s birthday. See for your self beneath.

First day of Lollapalooza <3 At all times really feel like rock stars driving round in a golf cart.

What Preston and Aron have been doing most likely.

Publish DJ Trixie Mattel gossip sesh.

Actually good hangover treatment.

Joey taking our pic Had an evening off in Seattle earlier than Capitol Hill Block Celebration.

The bar had no AC, so I needed to improvise and switch my lengthy sleeve right into a tube prime :0

Publish-Exterior Lands dinner Needed to eat oysters by the sunshine of our flashlights as a result of the facility went out within the restaurant the second we sat down…