Laura Stevenson is sharing a new track, ‘I Couldn’t Sleep’ from her upcoming album Late Great (Really Records), out June 27, 2025, on lifelong collaborator Jeff Rosenstock’s label. The track is accompanied by a video that Stevenson created herself with found public domain footage. She has also announced a fall North American tour with stops in all major cities. Tickets for the shows go on-sale this Friday at 10am local time, and all tour dates can be seen below. 

“This song is about opening yourself up again to someone new and being somehow relieved that the experience wasn’t what you built it up to be,” explains Stevenson of the track. 

Singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson has long been renowned for her singular voice and intimate, exposed music, and has been cited as an important influence for some of today’s biggest indie rock darlings, including Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. 

In the four years since the release of her last record, Stevenson has found herself in an entirely new place. Pandemic-era motherhood, a painful split, a new career path, and new love have seen her rebuilding from the deepest layers of her being. Late Great sees her letting go and taking charge. “It’s a document of loss for sure,” she explains, “but it also draws the map of this exciting precipice that I’m standing on. I am making my own life now. With the record, with everything, this is the first time I get to call all the shots.”

This spring sees Stevenson graduating from with her Masters in music therapy, a new career path that has held all sorts of parallels for her as she navigates the messy emotions of heartbreak and motherhood. “Music is a resource we can tap into to heal ourselves. When I started this career path a few years ago, I kind of quieted my own healing relationship to music, because I honestly didn’t have time, but this record is me getting back to it.  This is me processing and reconnecting with that part of myself, and it carried me through.”

Late Great was recorded and produced with John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Hop Along) in an old church in Marlboro, New York. The album boasts numerous friends and collaborators of Stevenson’s including Sammi Niss (Laura’s longtime drummer, who also plays in Real Estate), James Richardson (on bass and guitars), Shawn Alpay (cello), Kayleigh Goldsworthy (strings), Chris Farren (of Chris Farren) on synths, Kelly Pratt (of Beirut, Arcade Fire, Father John Misty on horns), Mike Brenner (of Magnolia Electric Company/Songs Ohia on pedal steel) and Jeff Rosenstock (piano, guitar, saxophone and arrangements).

Tour Dates
Sat-Sep-20 Amherst, MA @ The Drake
Sun-Sep-21 Boston,MA @ The Sinclair
Mon-Sep-22 New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Wed-Sep-24 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Sun-Sep-28 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
Thu-Oct-02 Chicago, IL @ Schubas
Fri-Oct-03 Detroit, MI @ The Sanctuary
Sat-Oct-04 Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee’s
Tue-Oct-14 Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom
Wed-Oct-15 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
Fri-Nov-21 Los Angeles, CA @ Scribble
Sat-Nov-22 San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall
Sun-Nov-23 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
Mon-Nov-24 Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project