Clare maloney & the great adventure
“Pure Rock & Roll” - Big Boss Sausage
LISTEN: “The Flood” - new single out now.
RECENT PRESS: Relix Magazine - Artist You Need to Know (2023)
Photo credit: Avida Love Photography
New York-based rock & roll quartet Clare Maloney & The Great Adventure are pushing out past the safe waters of their harbor and into the great unknown of the open ocean on their sophomore record. Flood, Fire & Honey takes the band and the listener on an electric rock odyssey where they encounter tremendous floods, fires and disorienting rearrangements, and find themselves asking the big existential questions. On the lead single and album opener, "The Flood" (released May 15, 2025), Maloney’s powerhouse, opera-trained vocals soar alongside an improvised vocal and guitar duet and a thundering rock sound. Recorded live in one take, the song sets the stage for the album’s sweeping tale of survival and renewal.
Born from a long dark night of the soul, Maloney reveals that Flood, Fire & Honey was inspired by her struggles with depression and self reckoning. “Floods and fires became powerful metaphors for the internal storms I was facing,” she shares. “They mirrored the destruction of everything I thought I knew about myself—and the painful but necessary process of sifting through the wreckage to understand what was worth rebuilding. The songs on this album became my way of expressing and making sense of that chaos, of finding beauty in the breakdown, and of charting a path to being a better, stronger, and more compassionate person.”
Since their first album (Daybreaker, 2022), the band has grown together. They wanted Flood, Fire, and Honey to convey this, so they booked five consecutive days at a studio, rented the apartment upstairs, and resolved to get everything (including two unfinished songs) recorded in that time. Isolated and working on a short deadline, the bandmates relied on each other for every aspect of the process. They brought prowess on their chosen devices: Clare Maloney and Nate De Brine on vocals and guitar; Caleb Estey on drums and vocals; and Russell Gottlieb on bass and banjos. Beyond that, they brought knowledge and determination, keeping an inner ear on the big picture and an outer ear on the fine details, and stayed devoted to the underlying emotional current of the art. When it came time to hit record, the band decided to record everything live to capture the magic of their live performance and the raw intensity of the new songs. The result is a thrilling five song concept album that traces the arc of the hero’s journey from the time the hero is faced with a devastating set back to their ultimate and triumphant return home, beaten but not defeated, worn but wiser.
The foursome developed their spellbinding live sound over the last few years by becoming a force on the touring circuit, playing 250+ shows and opening for legends like Pat Benatar, Los Lobos, The Wailers, and Kevin Bacon’s Bacon Brothers, Donna the Buffalo, Bailen and more. They will be releasing each song from Flood, Fire & Honey throughout the summer of 2025, one song at a time until the full album is out in fall 2025.
Highlights //
Direct Support
- Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band at The Pourhouse (Charleston, SC) 2025
- Los Lobos at The Hamilton (Sold Out - Washington, DC) 2024
- The Bacon Brothers at Tarrytown Music Hall (Tarrytown, NY) 2024
- Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo at Bergen PAC (Sold Out - Englewood NJ) 2023
- Bailen at 107.1 The Peak Summer Stage (Rye NY) 2023
- The Wailers at Bedford Music Festival (Bedford NY) 2023
- Donna the Buffalo at Park City Music Hall (Bridgeport, CT) 2022
- Scars on 45 at 107.1 The Peak Summer Stage (Rye NY) 2022
Festivals (all main stage)
- Sleepy Hollow Music Festival (Sleepy Hollow, NY) 2024, Grateful Camp Out (Brunswick, ME) 2024, Grateful Fest (Nelson Ledges OH) 2023, Bears Picnic (Blain PA) 2023, Dead of Summer Fest (Manchester VT) 2023, Bedford Music Festival (Katonah, NY) 2023, Pleasantville Music Festival (Pleasantville, NY) 2022
Pre-shows
- Robert Plant & Allison Krauss at Bethel Woods (Emerging Artists Stage - Bethel NY) 2023
- Aimee Mann at Tarrytown Music Hall (Tarrytown, NY) 2023
- Phil Lesh & Friends (x2) at Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, NY) 2023
- Twiddle at Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, NY) 2022
Venues Headlined
- The Levitt Pavilion (Westport, CT) featuring a sit in from Jeff Arevalo of Goose
- World Cafe Life (Philly PA), 118 North (Wayne PA), Beachland Ballroom (Cleveland OH), Rambling House (Columbus OH), Reggie's (Chicago IL) Sportsmen's Tavern (Buffalo NY), Abilene (Rochester NY), The Hollow (Albany NY), Egremont Barn (Egremont MA), Rockwood (Boston MA), The Bitter End (NYC). Park City Music Hall (Bridgeport CT), Towne Crier (Beacon NY).
- Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Halloween Parade (14,000 in attendance - Tarrytown NY)
Socials //
Radio play //
WXPK 107.1 The Peak (NY), WDST 100.1 Woodstock Radio (NY), WFDU 89.1 Farleigh Dickenson (NJ), WHUS 91.7 UConn (CT), 102.7 WEQX (VT), WVOF 88.5 Fairfield (CT), WSBS 860AM / 94.1 FM Great Barrington (MA), WOND 1400AM / 92.3 FM Atlantic City (NJ), 98.1 WKZE (NY), WBCR (MA)