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High Moon RecordsJackson Browne, The Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir and Jefferson Starship‘s David Freiberg have lent their vocal talents to “Made for Love, a new song that will appear on veteran all-female rock band Ace of Cups‘ upcoming second album, Sing Your Dreams.

The track is available now digitally, while an accompanying video premiered today on RollingStone.com and is also on YouTube. The song showcases Browne’s voice on the choruses, and spoken-word verses by Ace of Cups member Denise Kaufman.

“On our upcoming album, ‘Made for Love’ is the second half of a two-song medley,” Kaufman explains in a statement. “We decided to excerpt ‘Made for Love’ as a separate release, because we wanted to offer this message into the world right now…[The song] is a reminder…that we, ALL the people, didn’t come here for hate, greed and war. Every single one of us was made for love.”

The video is a collaboration between Ace of Cups and dancer/choreographer Stacey Printz, director of San Francisco’s Printz Dance Project. Printz and her dancers recorded specially choreographed dance sequences individually while in lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The clip also features photos of Ace of Cups members, as well as friends, family and musical collaborators.

Sing Your Dreams will be released on August 18.

Kaufman tells Rolling Stone, “The date that we chose is the 100-year anniversary of when women in the U.S. got to vote.”

Ace of Cups formed in 1967 and were part of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene, alongside The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, but broke up in the early ’70s without having released an album. After reuniting a few years back, the band made its first-ever studio record, a self-titled collection that hit stores in 2018.

By Matt Friedlander
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