Rising pop trio Trousdale takes on Grey Eagle this May

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — One month from now, pop band Trousdale will take the stage at the Grey Eagle for their “Growing Pains (Deluxe)” tour. “Growing Pains” was recently featured on 828newsNOW’s Best Albums of 2025 list. Read our interview with the band below.

When is Trousdale coming to Asheville?

Doors open for the Trousdale show at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 30 at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave., Asheville.

Opening for the band is verygently, a singer-songwriter trio out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Find tickets for the show here.

Who is Trousdale?

Trousdale is a Los Angeles, California pop trio comprised of Quinn D’Andrea, Georgia Greene and Lauren Jones. Like the Powerpuff Girls, each of the members are typically styled in one color: Greene is pink, Jones is blue and D’Andrea is green.

The band released their first album, “Out Of My Mind,” in 2023, and followed it up two years later with “Growing Pains.”

The deluxe edition of “Growing Pains” will be released on May 15, 2026, with eight additional tracks, including collaborations with artists like Rachael Price and Tors.

Interview with Trousdale member Lauren Jones

In advance of Trousdale’s Grey Eagle performance, I sat down with Lauren Jones to discuss the deluxe album, drawing inspiration from country music and the challenges of playing music professionally as an up-and-coming artist.

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

Q. I want to start with a colors question. Y’all have your blue, green and pink fits, and as someone who loves to dress monochromatically, that’s something I’m a huge fan of. I’m curious how y’all landed on those colors to start with and how you picked who got what.

Jones: It was honestly such an accident. We had already been starting to wear a lot more bright colors on stage, kind of that more monochromatic look, and I had a roommate that was like, ‘Oh, you should check out this place called Big Bud Press.’

We went to check out some jumpsuits that they had, and they were pretty expensive for us, so we were like, okay, we’re going to get these, but if we’re going to spend this much money on a fit, then we really need to wear them.

Then we started playing shows, and everybody was like, ‘You guys look like The Powerpuff Girls!’ [laughs] We were like, oh yeah, I guess we do.

I don’t know, people really loved it. It was a way for people to connect with us. People started being like, I love the green one, or the blue one, the pink one or whatever. It was like a way for them to identify our personalities without really knowing our names.

Q. I was going to ask if you’re bucking against that now. Like, I really wish I was purple, this is so awful?

Jones: We’re definitely getting a little tired of the colors, for sure. But it’s tough, though, because people come to our shows dressed in the colors too. It’s become such a community activity, almost. It’s like you show that you’re a Trousdale fan by wearing the colors, so we do love it. It was definitely a very happy accident.

Q. You guys have a deluxe version of “Growing Pains” coming out, and I’m always so curious about the pipeline from a normal album to a deluxe edition of it. When you already have an album that’s so tight and considered and of a whole, which I feel like “Growing Pains” is, how do you add onto that?

Jones: Honestly, I think a lot of it is just after putting out the album and doing a tour, you kind of get a sense of the world that the music is living in. Definitely general themes, general messages.

We always like the idea of having a cover on each deluxe, because that’s such a part of our story as well. We have been playing [Neil Young’s] “Old Man” as a cover for so long and we had wanted to release it in the past. But the last time we had considered releasing it was when Neil Young and Joni Mitchell had taken their music off of Spotify in protest of streaming services, so we were like, this doesn’t feel like the right time to put that out. But that has passed now, so, we’re looking for a cover to put on the album? This would be a good time to do that.

Then, “Both Can Be True,” we had had that start of the song. Like, the chorus was written when we were working on the album, and we couldn’t ever finish it. Then, some time after the tour, we had gone in with our collaborators, John Mark Nelson and Ken Yates, and we finished the song. It feels like it’s still very much part of that meaning. That you’re growing, and it can be difficult, but it’s also for the best.

It’s kind of just going through the archives and figuring out what feels right. It’s such a gut feeling, honestly, most of the time.

Q. A lot of “Growing Pains” is sort of a shift away from “Out Of My Mind,” in that it’s a twangier, downbeat, country-infused sort of sound. I know y’all aren’t strangers to melancholy music, but I do feel like “Secondhand Smoke” and “Sleeping at the Wheel” are a different version of that. I was curious if you could talk about where those country or sadder influences came from for this one.

Jones: I mean, country music is definitely in my upbringing, for sure. I grew up in a really small town in Michigan, definitely listening to a lot of country radio, as well as pop music. I think that was a really formative sound and genre in my musical mind, and Quinn and Georgia both really love country music as well, kind of more of a later in life thing. It pops, it shines through in different areas.

I think, also, there’s such a rich history of three-part harmony in country music. Like, there’s such a home for harmony in country music that we like to play with those flavors and lean in when we can. We definitely lean more heavily into the Nashville style of songwriting as well. “Secondhand Smoke” is definitely an example of that. The chorus is definitely, the way that it’s arranged, it feels like a country song.

It’s interesting that you say “Sleeping at the Wheel” is more of a country song, because I never think of it as one of the country-leaning songs. But it is definitely more acoustic, and it does have that Nashville style, writing where you’re using a metaphor to drive the whole song home.

Q. With three-piece harmony, a lot of times you’d have family units performing together, too. I feel like the message of sisterhood really comes through with a lot of the ways y’all combine your voices and instrumentation. Is that something you guys think about when you’re putting songs together?

Jones: Oh, for sure. I think there’s a certain energy that harmony, and especially a three-part harmony, brings out, and it is very familial. So often people think that we’re sisters, and in a lot ways, we are now, because we have been doing this for so long. It’s like we’re our chosen family in a lot of ways.

Q. When you’re sitting in the booth and you have all the songs in front of you, do you have personal favorites? Or are they all kind of your babies and you can’t decide?

Jones: They’re all babies. I think the three of us definitely have songs that feel more personal to each of us. Once we start touring, there are songs that are, even though I’ve loved working on all of them in the studio, sometimes they’re not as easy to do live. So, you end you up being like, oh, I don’t want to do that one. Like, that sounds really hard right now.

“Vertigo” is one of those. I love that song, but it’s so much energy. It takes so much vocal energy for me to get through that song that I’m like, oh my god, I can’t do this one right now. But the title track, “Growing Pains,” has remained one of my favorites. I’m really proud of that song. It feels very succinct to a feeling that we have been going through.

Q. Could you speak to that more? How would you describe that feeling?

Jones: It’s like when you want something so badly and you are… You know, we’re working towards this dream, and we have been for years now, and we don’t make enough money to do it still, you know? And that’s definitely something that wears on us. Quinn and Georgia are still living with their parents, I’m taking from my savings, and it’s not easy to be pursuing this thing that we love so much. But it’s this song about trusting in yourself and dealing with the growing pains, and knowing that when you fail, it’s only a learning opportunity. Like, it’s painful right now, but it means that you’re growing.

Q. That’s a great answer, and thank you for sharing the personal angle, too. I feel like y’all’s music is so optimistic and uplifting, and I find that inspiring that even when you’re coping with personal hardship, even making music, that you’re still striking that tone. Is that difficult for you to negotiate?

Jones: Yeah. I mean, definitely. It ends up being a huge part of what we talk about all the time. I think that’s like “Both Can Be True,” the song that we put out. That’s exactly what that is. It’s holding both truths, because there can be a lot of shame sometimes. I have been really struggling with some burnout recently, and sometimes the inclination can be to say, like, you’re literally writing songs and performing songs for a living. You’re a musician, you’re following your dreams, and you’re still not happy? Really?

The inclination is to shame yourself or be like, I can’t believe that you’re having a hard time with this right now, when really, you have to be compassionate with yourself. Both can be true at the same time. It can be really hard and also like you’re pursuing your dreams, and holding those truths and holding space for both of things can be really challenging. So, if anything, I feel like it definitely adds to our music. I think that is one of the most human things, to allow yourself to go back and forth between those two states.

Q. The last thing I’ll leave you on is that this is your first time headlining in Asheville, which is really exciting. Do you have much of a relationship with the city, either a musical or a personal connection?

Jones: Not a personal one, but I was so excited. I don’t think we had much of a chance to really see Asheville, because when we opened for Lake Street Dive [in October 2025], it was a pretty busy day. We didn’t have a chance to really explore. But I’ve heard so many amazing things about Asheville. I’ve heard it’s like the Seattle of the South, like this amazing artistic community, so I’m really excited to be there for a headlining show.

Q. Lauren, thank you so much. Please give my best to Georgia and Quinn.

Jones: Thank you so much!

“Growing Pains (Deluxe)” track list