COMMANDO are sharing their brand new single, “Mykki Blanco,” complete with a playful lyric video, and you can catch it right here at New Noise.
COMMANDO was created as a sort of revisionist history act, contemplating how things might be different if the specific cultural movement in the late 1990s that birthed nü metal and the musical toolbox that followed had been used to dismantle systems of oppression over reinforcing them.
The band blend blistering guitars, driving percussion, along with ferocious energy and lyricism aimed to unite crowds and smash racism, queerphobia, transphobia, fascism, and everything that closes the minds of folks in today’s society.
The new track is named for queer poet, musician, and icon Mykki Blanco. The track’s lead vocalist Lyne Breedlove chats more about the song and inspiration behind it:
“Andy Meyerson took me to see Mykki a few years back. Power. Bathed in the pure energy of Mykki, it felt like a private subtextual conversation. I was reminded of my own expedition watching Mykki’s stance like ‘I dare you to fuck with or decide who I am,’ using their body and the mic to teach gender, race, capitalism. It reminded me of our responsibility to stand up, drop armor, respect each other, be seen when tired of invisibility, or blend in. Mykki was a snapshot that day of us in transition, or mid stride of any movement, which is constant.”
Watch the video for “Mykki Blanco” here:
For more from COMMANDO, find them on Instagram, Bandcamp, and Twitter.
Photo courtesy of COMMANDO and Devlin Shand
