Amoeba Music

Join us at Amoeba Berkeley, Amoeba San Francisco, and Amoeba Hollywood on Friday, August 22nd at 5pm for special release day listening parties for Deftones' new album, private music! Come hear private music with your fellow fans, take a picture of yourself in front of the Deftones backdrop, get a free poster (while supplies last) and enter the raffle for prizes!

We'll start playing the album and giving out raffle tickets at 5pm. Amoeba Hollywood will take a quick break at 5:30pm to announce the winners, then continue playing the album. Amoeba San Francisco and Amoeba Berkeley will announce the winners after the album is finished.

** These listening parties are free & all-ages events.

** No purchase or RSVP needed to attend.

** Limit 1 raffle ticket per person. Must be present to win.

Please note: the band will not be in attendance. These are fan events only.

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Deftones have always defined boundless creativity in the music space. Across nine studio albums, they have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity — ferocious yet dreamlike, while making space for constant refinement and surprise. Now, decades on from the groove-forward sound of their era-defining debut, Adrenaline, and following a long line of masterpieces including 2000’s White Pony, 2010’s Diamond Eyes and 2020’s Ohms— an album that earned them their second and third Grammy nominations — they return with one of the most focused statements of their career: private music. Joining the band’s creative core of Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham and Frank Delgado (as well as touring bassist Fred Sablan, who appears on the album) is producer Nick Raskulinecz, who previously worked on Diamond Eyes and 2012’s riveting Koi No Yokan. The result is a lean, masterfully paced 11-song set that plays like a new Deftones benchmark. Meditating on the beauty and peril of nature, the challenge of cultivating a positive mindset and visions of a journey beyond the physical realm, private music showcases Deftones at their most evolved. At once a psychedelic voyage and a skull-rattling wallop, it’s the latest peak in a catalog filled with immersive, emotive triumphs.

private music will be available August 22 via Reprise on CD, clear vinyl, indie exclusive CD with alternative cover art, and indie exclusive fog vinyl with alternative cover art.