Silversun Pickups

Silversun Pickups’ sixth album Physical Thrills came together as a serendipitous accident during a dark time. The LA band began 2020 by touring in support of their record released the previous year, Widow’s Weeds. But the pandemic halted those plans, with the members including guitarist and singer Brian Aubert, bassist Nikki Monninger, drummer Christopher Guanlao, and keyboardist Joe Lester, finding themselves stuck at home.

The band finally was able to gather in person for a live-streamed acoustic performance on Halloween for The Dark Zone Network’s virtual music festival Queen Mary, and it was there that Aubert revealed new material to his bandmates. They readily embraced the new direction—and so did producer Butch Vig. The band reunited with Vig, who first worked with Silversun Pickups on Widow’s Weeds, recording the record at the famed producer and Garbage member’s home.

Hannah Cole is a Nashville-based indie alt-rock singer-songwriter known for her blend of '90s shoegaze nostalgia, heavy rock textures, and intimate, autobiographical storytelling. Originally from the small town of Covington, Louisiana, she has built a reputation in the indie music scene for rejecting corporate, commercial routes in favor of a raw, authentic artistic path.

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