Michelle Branch Shares Reworked Version Of The Game Of Love Featuring New Radicals From Upcoming EP
Thursday, 16 July 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Alexa King Stone
Michelle Branch has announced a new EP.
'Everywhere and Back Again' will arrive through BMG on November 6 and features reimagined recordings of some of the Grammy-winning pop artist's most popular songs from the past 25 years, including Everywhere, All You Wanted, Goodbye To You and Breathe, alongside artists from different genres who grew up with her music. She explained:
“Getting to hear these songs, many I wrote as a teenager, performed by friends and peers that I so greatly admire has been such a ‘pinch me’ moment as a songwriter. Suddenly these adolescent songs about love lost and found take on an entirely new meaning and weight when sung by artists of all different genres and in a different era."
She continued: "Being able to celebrate a 25-year career while firmly believing my best work is still ahead of me is the dream of any artist. And having fans that have grown up beside me who are still listening and still care after all these years is the greatest gift."
To mark the announcement, Branch has shared the first track from the EP, a stripped-back, soulful reworking of The Game Of Love featuring New Radicals' Gregg Alexander. He originally co-wrote the track with Rick Nowels for Santana, with Branch contributing vocals. Released in 2002, it won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
"The Game Of Love has been such a special song in my life made possible by one of my personal musical heroes, Gregg Alexander from New Radicals," Branch shared. "Many people don’t realize that Gregg wrote The Game Of Love and being able to sing this together with him is really a full-circle moment and captures the original spirit of the demo."
Alexander said: “Michelle has been acknowledged as inspiring so many artists and Michelle is one of the kindest artists I’ve ever worked with. Our sometime mentor Clive Davis brought icons Tina Turner and Macy Gray to the studio to “try out” “The Game Of Love” in 2001. Yet Clive envisioned a brand new voice delivering my idealistically innocent lyric and melody. So when 19 year old Michelle waltzed in delivering a jaw dropping one take vocal, we won a Grammy a year later. New Radicals and Michelle recently raised the “mix faders” at NYC’s Hit Factory with both our 2001 and 2026 vocals side by side, us both realizing singing our hearts out is perhaps just what the doctor ordered amidst today’s anxiety and global crises! And Clive, the music world misses you already… this record is dedicated to you. So let’s turn this motherfucker up and dance like no one’s watching!"
Branch will support the EP and celebrate the 25th annivrsary of her 2001 major label debut album, 'The Spirit Room', with a run of North American dates billed as the Everywhere And Back Again Tour, kicking off on September 27 in Seattle. Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (July 17).
The singer-songwriter released her fifth studio album, 'The Trouble With Fever', in 2022.
'Everywhere and Back Again' tracklist:
1. The Game of Love by New Radicals and Michelle Branch
2. Everywhere
3. Breathe
4. Goodbye to You
5. You Get Me
6. All You Wanted
7. Are You Happy Now?
8. The Game of Love Remix
Michelle Branch Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue September 27 2026 - SEATTLE Washington - Showbox (USA)
Tue September 29 2026 - PORTLAND Oregon - Mcmenamins Crystal Ballroom (USA)
Fri October 02 2026 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Castro Theatre (USA)
Sat October 03 2026 - LOS ANGELES California - Wiltern (USA)
Sun October 04 2026 - DEL MAR California - Sound (USA)
Tue October 06 2026 - SAN LUIS OBISPO California - Fremont Theater (USA)
Thu October 08 2026 - SALT LAKE CITY Utah - Grand at Complex (USA)
Fri October 09 2026 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Zouk (USA)
Sat October 10 2026 - ASPEN Colorado - Belly Up Aspen (USA)
Sun October 11 2026 - BOULDER Colorado - Boulder Theater (USA)
Wed November 04 2026 - BOSTON Massachusetts - Royale (USA)
Thu November 05 2026 - NEW YORK New York - Beacon Theatre (USA)
Fri November 06 2026 - ASBURY PARK New Jersey - Stone Pony (USA)
Sat November 07 2026 - NANTUCKET Massachusetts - Muse (USA)
Tue November 10 2026 - CHICAGO Illinois - House of Blues Chicago (USA)
Wed November 11 2026 - MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota - First Avenue (USA)
Thu November 12 2026 - MILWAUKEE Wisconsin - Pabst Theater (USA)
Fri November 13 2026 - LEXINGTON Kentucky - Manchester Music Hall (USA)
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