Peep this dreamy pop-synth tune by husband / wife duo, WIllix.
"This is a song I started writing four years ago in my car driving back and forth between Orlando and Lakeland. My wife and I were long distance at the time and I was struggling with being so far away from her. I started writing this song while driving over a really long bridge somewhere in Florida."
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New single “I Don’t Wanna” avail everywhere Aug 26.
5 FAST FACTS:
1. Jordan and I both played basketball at different colleges in Wisconsin. We met in Milwaukee in 2013 and have since either worked together, lived together, and/or played music together almost everyday for the last seven years. We also have the same favorite color. It's blue.
2. We quit our jobs and moved to Nashville. We rented our first house sight unseen and found jobs once we got here. We spent the first month or so living off tour money, eating pasta and watching "Narcos" on Netflix basically every day. Sure wish we hadn't watched it looking back, because it would have made for some great quarantine T.V.
3. We've been shooting our own music videos during quarantine. For the last video, "Smoke and Mirrors" we bought a bear mascot suit online and filmed out the back of a car while we danced down neighborhood streets. Jordan danced so hard he tore a hole in the suit. Prior to that we filmed a social distancing concert for our song "Wake Up" on Jordans' 2005 Mercury Sable in an empty parking lot. The car is rusted through in spots, so during filming a piece of the door fell off. What we are trying to say is, we do our own stunts.
4. We bought a red van and named it Rosie. We put almost 150,000 miles on it in 2 years, playing every show we could, from festivals, to colleges, to clubs. It broke down multiple times including twice on a trip to SXSW, one of those times in the middle of the interstate. Our tow truck driver strapped our instruments to the back of his truck bed and recommended some delicious BBQ. We drove it until it wouldn't turn on anymore and we had to scrap it for 200 bucks.
5. Our new song, "I Don't Wanna", drops on August 26th. It's about not wanting to be someones stepping stone on the road to finding love and instead being that person they want to be with. We've used quarantine to write a ton of new music that we are really excited about and to create lots of new content. We can't wait to play shows again and we've put a lot of time into creating that as well. Looking forward to seeing all of you soon!
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CHECK OUT THE DREAMY NEW VIDEO FOR INDIE POP ARTIST, ABIGAIL ROSE’, NEW SINGLE, “BALANCE”
“Balance is the song that started the entire visual inspiration for my EP Million Dollar Questions. I immediately saw the EP artwork in my head- me standing on a balance beam in a retro gymnasium. I knew the perfect spot... we shot this video and the artwork for my EP in the old gymnasium I grew up going to as a kid in Nashville! It was such a fun night getting to run around an empty gym and bring the visuals for my project to life with my videographer Ailene Weatherly and photographer Jasmine Archie!”
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JOHNNY GATES, FORMER FRONTMAN OF ROCK BAND, RUNAWAY SAINTS, ON HIS RETURN TO MUSIC CITY AND WHAT TO EXPECT FROM HIM. CHECK OUT THE EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE OF HIS NEW STRIPPED RELEASE “SUCKER PUNCH” - RECORDED LIVE IN HIS APARTMENT IN GERMANTOWN.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND AND WHO HAS INFLUENCED IT?
I came up in the DIY "Emo" scene, so that world will always be a part of me. But when I moved to Nashville, I started to really dive into the alt country, singer songwriter world, and I became obsessed - I think I sit somewhere in the middle of all that. My favorite moments during my sets, are when it's completely quiet, and everyone is just in that moment together. Whatever genre that is, sign me up!
And as far as influences go, Bob Dylan is probably the best to ever do ‘the singer-songwriter thing’. And I'm a massive Butch Walker fan. I saw him play a set at Hollywood Forever, and it kind of changed my life.
TALK ABOUT BEING CONSIDERED A ‘ROCK’ ARTIST IN NASHVILLE
A lot of people hear the word ‘Nashville,’ and they automatically think Country music. - Which isn't a bad thing. That’s what drew me here, to be honest, and music row has taught me how to be a better songwriter. But, being a "rock" artist in Nashville, means that your road could be a little bumpier than others, as far as finding where you fit. I've hit walls in the music industry here, because I looked a certain way, or didn't sound a certain way - but that's just part of it. I think at the end of the day, being an outlier has forced me to double down on exactly who I was. There's a great scene here for everything else, and you find it every night in East Nashville.
ANYTHING YOU’RE BINGING ON QUARANTINE - SHOWS, PODCAST, MUSIC, ETC?
I just finished season 3 of Ozark. I’m obsessed with that one. It took me like two days to finish it, haha. Zero Zero Zero is another one I’ve been really into. The Watch is another good one too.
I'm a sports nerd when it comes to podcasts, so I'm all about the Bill Simmons podcast.
Regarding music, I'm really into the new Phoebe Bridgers stuff, and the new Ruston Kelly.
I’m basically just trying to not watch the news and get petrified.
TALK ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES LIVING AND MAKING MUSIC IN BOTH NASHVILLE AND LA
Each city has left a major mark on me, so I’m definitely the wrong person to pick a side.
Nashville fulfills the songwriter in me - and the community aspect is incredible. This city has those special nights where, you’re at a writers round, and you hear a writer like Natalie Hemby or Hillary Lindsay play a song, and it just hits you - this place, and the music made here, is unlike anywhere else. You immediately drive home and want to write a million songs. I’m obsessed with those nights.
LA fulfills the other part of me. It’s beautiful, weird, diverse and crazy. Everything seems impossible one minute, and totally possible the next. I can honestly say LA woken me up as an artist. It has such a scene, that’s hard to find in other cities. I made some best friends there. Also, the Hotel Cafe is probably my favorite venues to play.
ANY ARTISTS YOU’RE LOVING RIGHT NOW?
I’m a big fan of what Ruston Kelly is doing. His take on the Singer-Songwriter genre is super refreshing. I was obsessed with the Boygenius record ft. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus and I’m really looking forward to the new solo Phoebe Bridgers album! I’m a fan for sure.
FIRST THING YOU’RE GOING TO DO WHEN YOU GET OUT OF QUARANTINE
Play a damn show! The awkward silence after the live stream songs is starting to get olddd - haha. But really, I’ll probably head home to Rhode Island for a bit to see family. Or just hit a bar with some friends. It’s weird that it all seems so foreign now.
TALK ABOUT YOUR NEW PROJECT AND WHAT YOU’RE EXCITED ABOUT
So my new project is something I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time. I came up playing in bands, with my best friends from home, but life, the road, and moving to different cities, started to get in the way. Eventually, I started writing more solo stuff and playing solo shows around Hollywood. It's been a wild ride to get to this point, but I'm just really excited to be making and releasing music that totally represents me, as a person and an artist. The thing i'm most excited about is getting back in the van and touring, with these songs.
TELL US THE BACKSTORY ON ‘SUCKER PUNCH’
I don’t have the best resume when it comes to successful relationships, and I guess you can say I’ve got a guard up. With Sucker Punch - I had the hook. It was about a certain situation where, she just kind of hit me out of no where, and I was okay with it.
I wrote it with my buddy Jake Ohlbaum, from The Foxies, over at his spot in East Nashville. The plan was to fully record it for my next EP, but then this whole quarantine thing happened, and I wanted to just record something quick and live-ish and release it ASAP. I threw down a guitar/vocal at my spot, emailed it over to my pedal steel player in LA; Dan Wistrom. He tossed some pedal on it, sent back, and we were done. I think a lot of people right now are just creating with what’s around them, and I wanted to be a part of that.
"I Think About You All The Time” was written with my good friend Victoria Bigelow about a relationship I was in at the time. It is one of those songs that every lyric still feels raw when I still sing it because of its cuttingly truthfulness. It takes me right back to - in this case - four months ago. Sometimes people you are with do not treat you well and you can know in your head that they are bad for you, but you cannot control your feelings. The song is about that kind of relationship and the fact that it was so consuming that it was hard to be present in my everyday life.
I wanted the production of the song to match my emotion - really vulnerable in the beginning but the track just grows and ends with chaos and muddiness with lots of vocal layering and dissonant guitars. The end of the song is the final breakdown - the part in a relationship where you can’t take things as they are anymore. Thinking about somebody all of the time - especially someone who is ‘no good’ - is a very smothering and lawless state to be in. Sometimes in the beginning it can feel innocent, then with time grow to be just a little too messy. I think it’s good to get all that emotion out, and then hopefully freaking move on - which are the songs I’m writing now!!!!"
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