11/17/2023

DORA JAR RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE “PUPPET”

DORA JAR RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE "PUPPET"

Single Artwork - Photo by Erica Snyder

Today, emerging alt-pop star Dora Jar makes a glorious return with a psychedelic and introspective new single “Puppet” out via Island Records. Inspired by a message Dora had for her past self, “Puppet” asks one thing of its listener: “Can you help me cut my thread?” Featuring crunching synths, tinkering droplets of xylophone, whimsical harmonies, pulsating drums, and a cathartic screaming chorus, Jar denounces the existence of acting as a puppet and shares desires to return to her own autonomy; even if it comes at her detriment. Expressive in its throaty cries and self-aware and curious in its mystical lyricism—with references to the wonder of Pinocchio and the pineal third eye—“Puppet” catapults Dora Jar into a new glam rock, vaudevillian era. While “Puppet” itself is a thrashing, cleansing and whimsical sonic boom, its creation process was quite the opposite. 


Dora Jar shares about the song: “Puppet came together earlier this year while I was off social media, in a remote part of Alaska. I wrote the lyrics in a cabin overlooking a river full of salmon who swim upstream in august to return to where they were born, lay their eggs and die. Being off the internet my awareness shifted away from how I was perceived online to a strong feeling that everything around me was alive, and aware. The wood of the cabin walls was watching me as I stared at them in search of patterns, and the guitars we passed around seemed to tell their own stories.”


After completing her first North American headline tour earlier this year, Dora Jar set out to command the stage as the opening act on a national arena tour with The 1975, playing sold-out shows at TD Garden in Boston and returning to Madison Square Garden in New York City. Over the course of 2022, she blessed fans with alluring singles “Bumblebee” and “Bump” and “Spell”, and joined Billie Eilish for the Happier Than Ever World Tour in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Born in New York but raised in LA, the 24-year-old singer’s formative sound has already captured the attention of NPRThe New York TimesW MagazineBillboardPigeons & PlanesPitchfork and more. 


LISTEN TO “PUPPET”

https://DoraJar.lnk.to/Puppet

DORA JAR TOUR DATES


October 31, 2023 - Detroit, MI - LITTLE CAESARS ARENA


November 2, 2023 - Indianapolis, IN - GAINBRIDGE FIELDHOUSE


November 3, 2023 - Columbus, OH - NATIONWIDE ARENA


November 5, 2023 - Pittsburgh, PA - PPG PAINTS ARENA


November 7, 2023 - Newark, NJ - PRUDENTIAL CENTER


November 8, 2023 - Baltimore, MD - CFG BANK ARENA


November 12, 2023 - Boston, MA - TD GARDEN


November 14, 2023 - New York, NY - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN


November 15, 2023 - New York, NY - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN


November 17, 2023 - Montreal, Canada - BELL CENTRE


November 18, 2023 - Toronto, Canada - SCOTIABANK ARENA


November 22, 2023- Grand Rapids, MI - VAN ANDEL ARENA


November 27, 2023 - Boise, ID - EXTRAMILE ARENA


November 29, 2023 - Vancouver, Canada - ROGERS ARENA


December 1, 2023 - Portland, OR - MODA CENTER


December 2, 2023 - Seattle, WA - CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA



Photo by Erica Snyder

ABOUT DORA JAR / BOILERPLATE


Hailing from New York and California, Dora Jar refuses to be confined by genre and categorization. She grew up immersed in music, thanks to her mother's acting career and the charity concerts at the Bridge School—where her sister attended—that exposed her to a plethora of different artists, like the Foo Fighters and Regina Spektor that inspired her. In 2011, when her sister passed, Dora decided that she needed to get away, heading to a boarding school on the east coast and eventually to London. In London, she honed in on her craft, catching the eye of various producers, with tracks like "Did I Get It Wrong," and "Multiply". She quickly grew an audience with her eclectic, playful, but mature songwriting skills, releasing her debut EP, Digital Meadow in 2021, followed by 2022’s comfortably in pain.

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