Guadalajara-born and El Paso based garage punk band Le Butcherettes are excited to announce their signing with iconic punk/metal label Rise Records. In celebration of the news, the band has shared a new single, the pulse pounding “spider/WAVES” – watch the music video below.
For the new song, the band teamed up with iconic Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison [No Doubt, Violent Femmes, KD Lang] behind the board as producer.
Themes of internal and familial strife hang over the first single “spider/WAVES“. A ticking time bomb of riffs clicks and clacks as her howling falsetto swings towards a searing screech. Appropriately, she dons a Chichimeccan warrior outfit in honor of her grandmother in the accompanying music video directed by award-winning duo Noun.
“Lyrically, it’s like this big delicious spider has its wave,” she elaborates. “In a way, we’re all caught in it. This thing wants to devour as much as it can, but you have to make sure you’re okay. You’re trying to protect yourself from something that wants to get in.”
Le Butcherettes have already spent most of 2018 on the road, with an extensive European tour, and now, the band will be joining Hot Snakes in the US for a run of dates in May.
On tour w/ Hot Snakes:
5/9/18 Orange County, CA The Observatory
5/10/18 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
5/11/18 San Diego, CA Observatory North Park
5/12/18 Los Angeles, CA The Ritz
5/15/18 San Francisco, CA August Hall
5/16/18 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
5/18/18 Denver, CO Oriental Theater
Over the past decade-plus, Teri and Co. quietly laid the groundwork for a statement of this magnitude. 2015’s A Raw Youth attracted acclaim from Consequence of Sound, Magnet, Classic Rock, and more. An infamous live force, the frontwoman defied house rules (and gravity), hanging upside down from the rafters at a storied Coachella set followed by stage-wrecking displays everywhere from Lollapalooza to Fun Fun Fun Fest. Handpicked to support Jack White, At The Drive In, Faith No More, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Deftones, and others, Le Butcherettes earned the blessing and anointment of rock’s vanguard. The songstress also joined iconic Garbage leader Shirley Manson and Brody Dalle on the cover of Nylon, while Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, and John Frusciante immediately accepted invitations to collaborate. Spreading their influence into the mainstream, “Eli” soundtracked an episode of HBO’s True Detective, and “New York” became the theme for the 2015 World Series opener.
Top photo by Lyndsey Byrnes
