Lowertown is the songwriting partnership of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg. The Atlanta-based duo has released a new track, “Big Thumb,” ahead of their upcoming fourth full-length album, due out this May. The song is steeped in palpable emotion: while Aisha’s shaky vocals barely hold things together, Olivia’s harmonica and harmonizing vocals add a haunting layer that reinforces the track’s teetering, fragile feel.
The band’s upcoming album, Ugly Duckling Union, was inspired by the post-pandemic corporatization and commodification of both in-person and digital spaces – places that once allowed communities and fandoms with shared interests to form and strengthen. “Big Thumb” is an ode to a directionless generation who feels the paths previously laid out are no longer usable, leaving them to either drift aimlessly or carve out something entirely new.
“‘Big Thumb’ was written during Olive’s obsession with collecting newspaper clippings and found pieces of writing. She had always wanted to write a song in the way the 90’s industrial scene had by using newspaper clippings to inspire lyrics. Olive collected many different clippings and writings for us and spread them out on the ground, so that when we would begin to play together, Olive on harmonica and me on 12-string guitar, we could sing the words that inspired us most.
What stuck was an almost mantra-like repetition of the words ‘Holding out the Big Thumb’ which became the song’s conceptual core. The song became a reflection on the feeling of directionlessness in our generation, and how the paths of life that were carved out for previous generations are now void. We are left to drift along aimlessly or hopefully carve out some brand-new path.”
-Avsha Weinberg on “Big Thumb”
“Big Thumb” is released ahead of Lowertown’s upcoming album, Ugly Duckling Union, out May 22nd via Summer Shade. Pre-order available here.
Listen to “Big Thumb” below:
Lowertown 2026 Tour Dates
April 28th – Philadelphia, PA @ The Loft
April 29th – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
May 1st – Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean
May 2nd – Montreal @ Ministere
May 4th – Ottawa, CAN @ 27 Club
May 5th – Toronto, CAN @ Hard Luck Room
May 7th – Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s
May 8th – Indianapolis, IN @ HiFi
May 9th – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
May 10th – Whitefish Bay, WI @ The Argo
May 12th – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
May 13th – Des Moines, IA @ xBK
May 14th – Lawrence, KS @ The White Schoolhouse
May 16th – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
May 18th – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
May 19th – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
May 22nd – Seattle, WA @ Baba Yaga
May 23rd – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
May 26th – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
May 29th – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
May 30th – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
May 31st – San Diego, CA @ Quartyard
June 8th – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
June 11th – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
June 12th – Austin, TX @ 29th St Ballroom
June 13th – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
June 15th – Nashville, TN @ The End
June 17th – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (HELL)
June 19th – Jacksonville, FL @ Hard Love
June 20th – Orlando, FL @ Conduit
June 22nd – Miami, FL @ Lincoln’s Beard
June 23rd – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
June 25th – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
June 26th – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
June 27th – New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
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