Following the critical and commercial success of their 2023 Grog LP, cult New York indie duo Frog have returned with a festive new single and announcements for a new LP and their largest tour to date.

‘Did Santa Come’ is the first preview of Frog’s upcoming sixth album, 1000 Variations on the Same Song, which will be released in February and followed by a North America tour in March and April.

Frog have touched on the sadness of the holidays in the past with songs like ‘Wish Upon a Bar’ and 'Space Jam’, but new single, ‘Did Santa Come’, leans into the season with newfound enthusiasm and naiveté, inspired by Daniel Bateman’s young son: “This song is about my son when he was two years old at Christmas time. Every morning for 2-3 weeks after, he would wake up and ask, “Did Santa come?” Seeing the world through the eyes of your children makes it all very beautiful.”

Since Frog returned from hiatus in 2023 with the addition of Daniel’s brother Steve Bateman on drums, they’ve received significant critical acclaim and enjoyed a run of sold-out shows in the Tri-state area. These 2025 dates will see the band joined by Frog co-founder Tom White on bass and will take them to cities like Los Angeles, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Boise (Treefort Music Fest), and more for first-time-ever shows.

2025 Tour Dates:

8 MARCH - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US

22 MARCH - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US

23 MARCH - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, US

25 MARCH - The Black Lodge, Seattle, WA, US

26 MARCH - The Fox Cabaret Projection Room, Vancouver, BC, Canada

27 MARCH - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US

28 MARCH - Treefort Music Fest, Boise, ID, US

3 APRIL - Bowery Ballroom, New York (NYC), NY, US

11 APRIL - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, US

Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Ciao Malz (Malia DelaCruz) has announced her debut EP, Safe Then Sorry, to be released via Audio Antihero Records (Frog / Magana / Nosferatu D2 / Cloud) on December 6. It will be preceded by the free/pay-what-you-want ‘Two Feet Tall’ single this Friday. Her music first reached the Audio Antihero label when she issued a cover of Frog’s ‘You Know I’m Down’ sleeper hit in 2023, and the label then offered to work with her on this debut.

Inspired by artists like Elliot Smith, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Men I Trust, she combines witty introspection, informed by her experience as a young woman of color, with a layered musical bounce. While her self-released demos earned supporters at NPR: WFUV, Loud Women, and others, this is her most mature, eclectic, and complete work to date.

Safe Then Sorry ranges from the breakneck indie rock frustration of ‘Two Feet Tall’ (“Drinking all the milk and missing all the three-pointers / Think about it still, find new ways to disappoint her”) to alt. country on ‘Bad for the Bad Guy’ (“I feel like Mary Shelley in 1818 / Getting bored and do something extraordinary / Strike the pen to the paper, making sense of it later”) and aching folk pop for ‘Take Me Out of Here’, (“Occasionally my patience leaves the room / Here comes that busted attitude / That I can’t stand how the sky’s blue / But what I would do, to give it to you”) and ‘Gold Rush’ (“Got no temptation, to sit around have the same conversation / Going in circles, going berserk / There’s nothing that I have not heard”).