Jordan Benjamin is the Los Angeles-based creative mastermind behind the rising indie rock project grandson. Benjamin’s highly-anticipated sophomore grandson album, the Mike Crossey-produced INERTIA is slated for a September 5, 2025 release through XX Records/Create Music. The album reportedly marks an urgent, unfiltered chapter for Benjamin as an artist and songwriter, who’s operating on his own terms and speaking truth to power.
INERTIA‘s second and latest single “SELF IMMOLATION” is a Rage Against the Machine-meets-Incubus-era nu metal bruiser that sees Benjamin pairing a punchy and impassioned delivery with pummeling boom bap-like percussion, bursts of DJ scratching and a rousingly anthemic and mosh pit friendly, Tom Morello-like crunchy power chord-driven hook and chorus. Thematically, the song sees the rising Los Angeles-based artist unpacking what it means to have a cause to fight for — and to potentially die for.
“’Self Immolation’ was inspired by the Palestinian liberation movement across college campuses, inspired by the late Aaron Bushnell who gave his life in protest of the actions of the very military he served, inspired by the dead students of Kent State 1970, and written about what it means to have a cause to live for, to die for,” Benjamin explains. “I wrote it with my friends, each of us playing an instrument live together, in a stoned, free, creative place in Andrew’s studio one afternoon, and it was a feeling we locked into across the whole album. It was a blast to create, and we all felt a great deal of purpose and meaning in the session that day.”
The accompanying video for “SELF IMMOLATION” is split between Benjamin and his backing band performing the song as two funereally-dressed women headbang and mosh behind him, edited footage from Kent State, protests, uprisings and fires.
Along with the new single and video, the rising Los Angeles-based announced a headlining, fall North American tour that includes a November 7, 2025 stop at Warsaw. Check out the rest of the tour dates below.
grandson North American Tour Dates
10/21/2025 – San Francisco – The Fillmore
10/23/2025 – Portland – Crystal Ballroom
10/24/2025 – Spokane – Knitting Factory
10/25/2025 – Seattle – Showbox SoDo
10/28/2025- Salt Lake City – Rockwell at The Complex
10/31/2025 – St. Louis – Delmar Hall
11/1/2025 – Chicago – Riviera Theatre
11/2/2025 – Minneapolis – The Fillmore
11/4/2025 – Detroit – Majestic Theatre
11/6/2025 – Boston – Royale
11/7/2025 – Brooklyn – Warsaw
11/8/2025 – Philadelphia – Union Transfer
11/9/2025 – Washington – 9:30 Club
11/11/2025 – Atlanta – Buckhead Theatre
11/12/2025 – Nashville – Brooklyn Bowl
11/14/2025 – Dallas – House of Blues
11/15/2025 – San Antonio – Paper Tiger
11/18/2025 – San Diego – Observatory North Park
11/19/2025 – Los Angeles – The Bellwether
12/3/2025 – Vancouver – Commodore Ballroom
12/5/2025 – Calgary – MacEwan Hall
12/6/2025 – Edmonton – Midway Music Hall
\12/8/2025 – Winnipeg – Burton Cummings Theatre
12/12/2025 – Toronto – Phoenix Concert Theatre
12/13/2025 – Montreal – MTelus
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