Rostam In-Store Performance & Album Signing at Amoeba Hollywood
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time
- Wednesday, May 20, 2026 5pm - 7pm
Location
Amoeba Music
6200 Hollywood Blvd
Details
Rostam celebrates his new album, American Stories (out 5/15 via Matsor Projects), with a live in-store set and album signing at Amoeba Hollywood Wednesday, May 20th at 5pm!
Show is free/all-ages. To attend the post-performance signing, purchase American Stories in-store at Amoeba Hollywood starting 5/15. You'll receive a hard ticket for one person to attend the signing. No ticket required to watch the show.
See Rostam live - May 30, 2026 @ The Ford, Los Angeles. Tour dates here.
Rostam’s third album, American Stories, arrives May 15, his first new music in over five years. The Iranian American artist and acclaimed producer returns with a record that explores his life across dual cultural worlds. The music weaves together elements of Americana and Persian traditions, blending fingerpicked guitars, pedal steel, and strummed chords with microtonal Persian melodies. “That marriage of east and west felt like music that I needed to make for this album.” Interweaving his own experiences, Rostam's lyrics are a collection of stories and reflections, “The Weight” takes place on college campuses in America in the spring of 2025. In “Forgive is to Know,” Rostam processes real events and the act of songwriting itself. Rostam makes sense of the end of a relationship in “Hardy ft. Clairo” and contends with humanity’s uncertain future. The result is a record that feels deeply individual yet unmistakably American. “Ultimately I hope listeners find comfort in this record and I want to leave people with a feeling of optimism.”
Bio: Rostam Batmanglij, known mononymously as Rostam, is a GRAMMY® Award-winning songwriter, producer, and composer. One of the founding members of Vampire Weekend and producer of their first three albums, he has been described as one of the great pop and indie-rock producers of his generation, having produced for some of the most important artists of the last decade including Frank Ocean, Clairo, Charli XCX, Maggie Rogers, HAIM, Solange, Lykke Li, Santigold, Carly Rae Jepsen, Hamilton Leithauser and many others. In recent years, he has maintained an astonishingly varied and intensely busy career, releasing two critically acclaimed solo albums—2017’s Half-Light and 2020’s Changephobia—while also producing records for HAIM (2020’s Women in Music Pt. III, nominated for Album of the Year at the 63rd GRAMMY® Awards and 2025’s I quit, nominated for Best Rock Album at the 68th GRAMMY® Awards), Clairo (2019’s Immunity), Vagabon (2023’s Sorry I Haven’t Called), Leith Ross (2025’s I Can See the Future), and Georgia (2023’s Euphoric), as well as composing for film and television, including 2016’s The OA and 2023’s The Persian Version. 2026 sees the release of his third studio album American Stories.
