{"id":2014774,"date":"2026-06-27T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014774"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:27:43","slug":"noah-kahan-asks-fans-to-stop-stealing-road-sign-in-his-home-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014774","title":{"rendered":"Noah Kahan asks fans to stop stealing road sign in his home town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Noah-Kahan.-CREDIT_-Robin-Marchant_Getty-Images-for-Netflix.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Noah Kahan asks fans to stop stealing road sign in his home town<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t disturb these places or people&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Laura Molloy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-27T09:27:43+01:00\">27th June 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Noah-Kahan.-CREDIT_-Robin-Marchant_Getty-Images-for-Netflix-696x442.jpg\" alt title=\"Noah Kahan: Out Of Body SXSW Premiere - Austin, TX\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Noah Kahan. CREDIT: Robin Marchant\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Noah Kahan is asking fans to stop stealing a street sign in his Vermont hometown, which is referenced in his song \u2018The View Between Villages\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"878\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Noah Kahan in London: rising folk-pop superstar graduates to arenas<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The track comes from Kahan\u2019s \u20182022\u2019 album \u2018Stick Season\u2018, and includes the lyric \u201c<em>Past Alger Brook Road, I\u2019m over the bridge\/A minute from home, but I feel so far from it<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since then, some fans have taken to stealing the Alger Brook Road sign as a souvenir. It\u2019s unclear how many times this has happened, but it\u2019s become such a nuisance to local people that Kahan has offered to \u201cpay for any replacements\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The singer requested fans cease the behaviour in a post on social media, writing, \u201cTo fans traveling to the upper valley, I\u2019ve been informed that the Alger Brook Road sign in Strafford has been repeatedly stolen. It is a total disrespect to the folks who live on that road and a headache for the town to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate that because I put the road name in a song that some people have taken that as an invitation to disrupt the lives of the hardworking and kind folks who frequent it,\u201d Kahan continued in an Instagram story. \u201cI\u2019m really sorry you\u2019re dealing with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kahan also asked his fan community, which has \u201cgrown much larger\u201d over the past few years, to please respect his family\u2019s privacy. \u201cI feel I should again remind you all about how deeply protective I am over my family\u2019s privacy, and of the sanctuary of where I am from,\u201d Kahan wrote. \u201cPlease don\u2019t disturb these places or people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8| Noah Kahan speaks on the repeated theft of the \u201cAlger Brook Road\u201d street sign in his hometown that he included in the lyrics of one of his songs and reminds fans to show respect to his hometown if they choose to visit it<\/p>\n<p>\u201cplease don\u2019t disturb these places or people\u201d pic.twitter.com\/948mJwkaGR<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Kahan Archive (@KahanArchive) June 26, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kahan released his fourth studio album, \u2018The Great Divide\u2019, on April 24, and\u00a0has since announced a world tour to go alongside the new album. He plays around Australia and New Zealand in September and October, before heading to the UK and Ireland in November and then mainland Europe. You can find all the dates\u00a0here\u00a0and the remaining tickets here.<\/p>\n<p>He will also embark on the North American leg this summer \u2013\u00a0find any remaining tickets here. The artist has\u00a0also been lined up for Bonnaroo 2026\u00a0alongside\u00a0The Strokes,\u00a0Turnstile,\u00a0Skrillex\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<p>Kahan has spoken about the themes that define his new album.\u00a0\u201cFrom a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiralling dreams that have materialised in front of me,\u201d he has said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cInstead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee. The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. 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festival<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span>                <\/article>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Noah Kahan is asking fans to stop stealing a street sign in his Vermont hometown, which is referenced in his song \u2018The View Between Villages\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"878\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Noah Kahan in London: rising folk-pop superstar graduates to arenas<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The track comes from Kahan\u2019s \u20182022\u2019 album \u2018Stick Season\u2018, and includes the lyric \u201c<em>Past Alger Brook Road, I\u2019m over the bridge\/A minute from home, but I feel so far from it<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since then, some fans have taken to stealing the Alger Brook Road sign as a souvenir. It\u2019s unclear how many times this has happened, but it\u2019s become such a nuisance to local people that Kahan has offered to \u201cpay for any replacements\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The singer requested fans cease the behaviour in a post on social media, writing, \u201cTo fans traveling to the upper valley, I\u2019ve been informed that the Alger Brook Road sign in Strafford has been repeatedly stolen. It is a total disrespect to the folks who live on that road and a headache for the town to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate that because I put the road name in a song that some people have taken that as an invitation to disrupt the lives of the hardworking and kind folks who frequent it,\u201d Kahan continued in an Instagram story. \u201cI\u2019m really sorry you\u2019re dealing with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kahan also asked his fan community, which has \u201cgrown much larger\u201d over the past few years, to please respect his family\u2019s privacy. \u201cI feel I should again remind you all about how deeply protective I am over my family\u2019s privacy, and of the sanctuary of where I am from,\u201d Kahan wrote. \u201cPlease don\u2019t disturb these places or people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8| Noah Kahan speaks on the repeated theft of the \u201cAlger Brook Road\u201d street sign in his hometown that he included in the lyrics of one of his songs and reminds fans to show respect to his hometown if they choose to visit it<\/p>\n<p>\u201cplease don\u2019t disturb these places or people\u201d pic.twitter.com\/948mJwkaGR<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Kahan Archive (@KahanArchive) June 26, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kahan released his fourth studio album, \u2018The Great Divide\u2019, on April 24, and\u00a0has since announced a world tour to go alongside the new album. He plays around Australia and New Zealand in September and October, before heading to the UK and Ireland in November and then mainland Europe. You can find all the dates\u00a0here\u00a0and the remaining tickets here.<\/p>\n<p>He will also embark on the North American leg this summer \u2013\u00a0find any remaining tickets here. The artist has\u00a0also been lined up for Bonnaroo 2026\u00a0alongside\u00a0The Strokes,\u00a0Turnstile,\u00a0Skrillex\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<p>Kahan has spoken about the themes that define his new album.\u00a0\u201cFrom a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiralling dreams that have materialised in front of me,\u201d he has said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cInstead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee. The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kahan also reflected on the success of his hit song \u2018Stick Season\u2019 during an interview with\u00a0<i>NME<\/i>\u00a0in 2023. \u201cI never thought this was\u00a0gonna\u00a0happen to me,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/noah-kahan-asks-fans-to-stop-stealing-road-sign-in-his-home-town-3953596&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Noah-Kahan.-CREDIT_-Robin-Marchant_Getty-Images-for-Netflix.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News Noah Kahan asks fans to stop stealing road sign in his home town \u201cPlease don\u2019t disturb these places or people&#8221; By Laura Molloy 27th June 2026 Noah Kahan. 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