Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. We weren't looking to sound different, or prove our growth, necessarily. The EPs black. It will be interesting if Dirty Honey sticks entirely to a simple heavy sound, as a handful of greats like AC/DC and Motorhead have, or expand into exotica, whether in the music (for example, Middle Eastern vibes like those on Zeps Kashmir) or instrumentation (such as synths, a la 80s Stones)? Some musicians take a while to build an audience and connect with fans. I also wanted to extend the artistic statement that weve already made, says the guitarist John Notto. Being in a bandit's a risk, you know? Last year, Dirty Honey self-released their debut album, which included the hit "When I'm Gone." The new Dirty Honey album indeed builds on the band's output to date, driven by the smoking lead single "California Dreaming" that muses about life's ebbs and flows, even in paradise. Welcome to the Dirty Honey Official Store! Los Angeles rock band Dirty Honey. Sometimes, Ill hear a style for the solo.. Catch Dirty Honey live at one of their upcoming shows: 13 Sacramento, CA, Holy Diver14 Fresno, CA, Strummers16 San Diego, CA, Voodoo Room @ House of Blues22 Los Angeles, CA, The Troubadour. I've seen the Struts live and they're amazing. $30.00 - $65.00. So family was a definitely an influence. CAN YOU GIVE US A BRIEF HISTORY ON HOW YOU CAME TOGETHER? BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. It doesn't seem like they care what the label thinks, which is definitely more an attitude that I'm drawn to. CBS SF: You came to Los Angeles specifically to pursue a musical career in 2012 from what I was reading in the band's bio, but you didn't connect with the other members until like five years later. All of the four band members are determined to better themselves going forward. Dirty Honey L-R: Marc LaBelle, Justin Smolian, Corey Coverstone, John Notto. This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. Feb 2. After a string of chart hits and live triumphs, one of rock music's most exciting new bands DIRTY HONEY is keeping the momentum going with the April 23 release of their self-titled debut full-length. So is Greta Van Fleet. The widescreen thunder of California Dreamin gave Dirty Honey their third straight top-15 rock radio hit. For one, he leaves the lyrics for LaBelle. On the other end of the phone line, the frontman for the best new hard-rock band in recent memory sings and plays guitar for a few seconds. They burst onto the scene in 2019 with When Im Gone, which zoomed to the top of Billboards Mainstream Rock chart, making the band the first unsigned act to land at Number One. Its a mixed bag, Notto says. WHAT'S THE BEST PART OF BEING ON TOUR, AND WHAT'S THE WORST PART OF BEING ON TOUR? The LP album jackets background color is cream. Marc LaBelle: Honestly, it's been a dream come true for me. Notto notes how the song evolved. CBS SF: Were there any influence as far as older siblings who were into music, or was it more from your parents? Oddly enough, my dad could definitely hold a tune, and so could my step dad. There are so many bands out there doing so many interesting things, it's hard to know where to turn. That's more like Iron Maiden, Metallica, etc., in my opinion. I love Nirvana. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. As soon as this tour ends, my dad and I are taking a trip up the coast to the California Redwoods to do some riding. At a very young age, I was putting two and two together and realizing thatAerosmith from the 90s was the same group that recorded Toys in the Attic 20 years before. The Stones were the same thing, and Aerosmith was a poor man's Stones; the Black Crowes were drawing from the same well. Band Members: groundzero.marc@gmail.com, Marc LaBelle: Lead Vocals, Justin Smolian: Bass, John Notto: Guitars, Corey Coverstone: Drums, Booking: Hometown: As a result, the songs on the Dirty Honey album hint at life's ebbs and flowsshattering heartbreak, romantic connection, intense soul-searchingwhile giving listeners space to draw their own conclusions. WHAT'S YOUR PRE-SHOW RITUAL? That was all him. We talk with frontman Marc LaBelle and other members of the band about the album and how the pandemic . Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. The band is managed by DiDias brother, Mark DiDia, who sibling rockers Chris and Rich Robinson tabbed to manage the Robinsons rebooted 90s blues-rock band The Black Crowes. And then he suggested a melody for me to sing in the chorus. He says the lyrics, about crawling back to a love you should instead be running away from, pretty much wrote themselves. Or, once Corey was in the picture, did you have a moment when things clicked and you knew this was the band? Marc LaBelle: Not really. Dirty Honey's album indeed builds on the band's output to date, with airtight songwriting that plays up their strengths: sexy, bluesy, nasty rock'n'roll, melodic hard rock, and soulful '70s blues-rock. Honestly, the biggest challenge was convincing the other band members to simply play what feels good. Back in the old days, I used to know every band members name, because I could pinpoint Joe Perrys guitar playing versus Brad Whitfords guitar playing. Back then, Dirty Honeys yardsticks by which to judge success Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC seemed to doom them to disappointment. But I really wanted to go to the reunion show and see the first one. Bath To also receive updates for our other venues, select below: You've been successfully subscribed - thanks! Then this riff (and maybe, destiny) tapped him on the shoulder. Marc LaBelle: I would not disagree with you, and I know our guitar player would not disagree with you. And that was when I kind of thought, "That looks like a fun career!" Singer Marc LaBelle: "Soulful, sexy rock & roll that's what we're all about". I haven't heard much of the Struts' stuff, but from what I've heard, it's a little more produced sounding. We were in the middle of nowhere going to a gig where we might have played for like 100 people, LaBelle recalls. Turns out, Kitsch and LaBelle have been friends for years. I was super young, like seven or eight years old. Were you in any groups leading up to that point? My dad was super into Tom Petty and the Stones, and my step brother was into the Black Crowes and he showed me a lot of stuff. Recently, Dirty Honey was announced as main support for the summer tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of Crowes debut album Shake Your Money Maker., Its the latest iconic band to have Dirty Honey open shows for them, including Guns N Roses and The Who. And Im wearing a kilt too., Dirty Honey might be a hot tip for 2021, but their real mission was to make a record that transcends their era. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Like everyone else, Los Angeles-based hard rock quartet Dirty Honey, who were just beginning to catch fire before everything went dark, stood in the wings to see what the future had in store. Justin had this one riff for forever that just remained unfinished until we fit it into "Heartbreaker." Theyre just making more money, so they get more resources, more attention. They put their time away from the road to good use by writing and recording new music. / CBS San Francisco. Not from dancing with Mr. You dont want to just keep writing radio songs, quote unquote, that are all three-and-a-half minutes because you can get very cookie cutter. But there really hasn't been a lot of other stuff that's really piqued my interest in terms of contemporary bands. And then we made a plan to record the record. And I know a couple of the people that are part of this lineup. Other LP hightides include jagged riff-fest The Wire and highway song Gypsy.. Thankfully, the song isnt a Mamas & The Papas cover. Later they bonded over motorcycles, even going overseas to places like Italy on motorcycle trips together. Except for Marc's lyrics, everything was pretty much written by the time we got into the studio, there really wasn't a lot of, 'Let's try this, let's try that.' It was more about, 'Oh, you thought that was good? In fact, they were hired to open a two-week warm-up tour in June for Dirty Honey. After hearing their song "When I'm Gone", the band's longtime friend Mark DiDia, a music industry veteran from Columbia Records, became their manager and quickly got them gigs opening for Slash in fall 2018. The demo I did was like real loose and kind of swampy. Its not us. That was a big part of it. But the studio recordings are a little more polished and produced. A month later, the groups self-titled album appeared. Thats not how we recorded. LOS ANGELES, CA - Friday, March 5, 2021 After a string of chart hits and live triumphs, one of rock music's most exciting new bands, DIRTY HONEY, is keeping the momentum going with the April 23, 2021 release of their self-titled debut full-length.The Los Angeles quartet is also releasing a new single, "California Dreamin'," with a news feature and video that premiered today via . "We would do two and three different demos of a song, so there would be a few versions. "What makes all of our songs fun to play and listen to is we don't allow ourselves to stop short of getting the best possible results out of each one of them. That would be amazing, the singer replies. Marc LaBelle: He is f--king amazing, by the way. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. I flew out to New York when they were doing the Howard Stern Show and playing the show at the Bowery Electric that night. Dirty Honey is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 2017. #CaliforniaDreamin 2023 in the EU kicks off tonight in Antwerp 2-Feb - Antwerp, Belgium 3-Feb - Cologne, Germany 4-Feb - Nijmegen, Netherlands 6-Feb - Eindhoven, Netherlands 7-Feb - Paris, France Get tickets now at DirtyHoney.com. Meanwhile, California Dreamin, the debut albums lead single, is firmly in the bands Aerosmith-y wheelhouse. John Mayer was in the next room, and he complained that he could hear our bass, it was bleeding through. CBS SF: I'm excited to see them. $35.00. It consists of singer Marc Labelle, guitarist John Notto, bassist Justin Smolian, and drummer Corey Coverstone. California Dreaming was the last song we wrote, said bassist Justin Smolian. Released in March 2019, the band's debut single, "When Im Gone," became the first song by an unsigned artist to reach No. If you cant write a song around the title Another Last Time youre not very good at your job if youre trying to be a songwriter, LaBelle says. I've definitely seen Aerosmith the most. Do you remember a point when you realized that you wanted to be a singer? And he got up on his drum kit and said "I want to be in this band!" It was just very lucky, spur of the moment thing that honestly changed my life forever. But you also see the darkest shit imaginable: heroin addiction under a bridge in Skid Row, poverty, homelessness; I slept in my car for nine months when I first moved here. Dirty Honeys headlining tour hits Alabama June 12 at Soul Kitchen Music Hall (219 Dauphin St.) Mobile and June 14 at Shagnastys (1117 Jordan Lan N.W.) There was no soul in any of it. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends). Our latest subject is Dirty Honey, an Los Angelesbased blues-rock band that put a modern spin on the anthemic bluster oftheir heroes: bands likeAerosmith, Guns N' Roses and Pearl Jam. When Im Gone has now been streamed more than 10 million times on Spotify. Notto had moved to Los Angeles from Maine. When you get people with personality in their playing, you want that to shine through. They've been nothing but kind to us and supportive. I love them both a lot. There's an overarching idea that is really cool, but it's not necessarily on-the-nose.". Everybody loved rock and roll. And they agreed on us too [laughs], which is historically a tough thing to get those two guys to do. The DIRTY HONEY album does sound effortless and captures the lightning-in-a-bottle dynamics and energy of the band's live sound. Then there's other times like I'll have a whole song worked out on an acoustic, like "Another Last Time" for example, and then you bring it to the band and everybody puts their own spin on it and it becomes a Dirty Honey song. This is 2021 rock & roll, not 1987. Similar sparks happened with tracks like The Wire and Tied Up, off the LP, on previous Dirty Honey tours. But for him and the rest of Dirty Honey, pushing through those tough times and coming out stronger on the other side is worth it. At the same time, long-standing venues around the globe shuttered their doors for good. Dirty Honey's album indeed builds on the band's output to date, with airtight songwriting that plays up their strengths: sexy, bluesy, nasty rock'n'roll, melodic hard rock, and soulful '70s blues-rock. Shows start at 8 p.m. Tickets for Mobile are $22.50 via ticketweb.com and $25 - $30 for Huntsville via eventbrite.com. It consists of singer Marc LaBelle, guitarist John Notto, bassist Justin Smolian, and drummer Jaydon Bean. Along with AC/DC, Notto cites Aerosmith and Van Halen as bands that give him ideas. . But at the end of the day, if you're really a good band, you have an X factor that you can't quite put your finger on. Marc LaBelle: Yeah, other than festivals that we've done here and there, this is definitely the first big, 10-15 thousand seat venue sort of tour that we've done on this scale ever. My brother and I had a Red Hot Chili Peppers phase for sure. I know you did at least a one show at the Viper Room that was streamed at some point. But me, John and Justin had been playing together on and off throughout LA for a long time. But it still doesn't have a meaning that's easy to pinpoint. Dirty Honey will open for The Black Crowes 7:30 p.m. Sept. 5 at Pelhams Oak Mountain Amphitheatre. Notto recruited bassist Justin Smolian, and the trio had trouble finding a drummer until Smolian brought in Corey Coverstone, who enthusiastically asked to join. on 9 September 2020, 6:29pm, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Back when Dirty Honey was doing small clubs in L.A. or early touring dates, LaBelle learned a frontman guideline once he crossed it. You're blasting through all these cool cities and seeing the best part of everywhere you visit. I love Aerosmith, the Black Crowes, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Audioslave, Pearl Jam I love them all. It was more about, 'Oh, you thought that was good? Theres nothing too heavy-handed or overly ambitious just Nottos crunchy guitar work and Marc LaBelles impassioned vocals stretched out over bassist Justin Smolian and drummer Corey Coverstones resolute foundation for a fulfilling elixir of blues-based rock. I have a full kind of studio setup, so I just make the most of it. It got Pro Tools-ed to death, and thats not what were about. And hes just a huge fan of the band and has been a huge supporter for a long time. Another talented Los Angeles band, Joyous Wolf, is the opening act. That 2019 EP opened with Dirty Honeys signature track so far, When Im Gone, a goosestepping rocker with LaBelles AirPod-exploding rasp in full flight. New-fashioned rock &roll from the soul. Soundgarden. Having to switch gears delayed the start of recording slightly, although this extra time ended up being a boon. I've actually never seen the Black Crowes before. It was like he was in the room with us. Dirty Honey is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 2017. Connecting Dirty Honey with his brother Nick DiDia -- the longtime engineer of choice for famed producer Brendan O'Brien, who worked on recordings by Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and many others -- the group would travel to DiDia's studio in Australia to track their debut EP. On May 7, the band opened for The Who at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan as part of The Who's Moving On! I'm not thinking too hard about guitar tones or unique arrangement ideas or weird time signatures. Which begs the question: what is it about Dirty Honeys music, straightforward and earnest as it is, that has vaulted them above so many other bands trying so hard to make it? It has a rawness to it, and a throwback familiarity while still feeling fresh. Because a lot of the guys who we wanted to play with could go play with Christina Aguilera or whoever for five grand a week and have a nice life. Teaming up with producer Nick DiDia (Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam), who also produced the band's 2019 self-titled EP, Dirty Honey again captured the lightning-in-a-bottle dynamics and energy of their live sound. CBS SF: A lot of your songs draw on a classic blues-rock sound, but "Take My Hand" is kind of reminiscent of something Audioslave might have done. By all reports, the jaunt was well received. I'd play "Rolling 7s." Honestly, we usually do a few shots of tequila right before we hit the stage. But despite the difficulty, the bassist Justin Smolian and the dummer Corey Coverstone stated that because of the pandemic, they had more time to rehearse and got tighter as a band, being able to workshop the songs a lot more. We've done one offs with Guns n' Roses and the Who, and we did a theater tour with Alter Bridge and Skillet and some dates with Slash and similar sized venues. I just think that without, shitting on anybody specifically, the sound of the music got too polished, Marc continues. The band Dirty Honey officially was formed when Corey joined the group. Were really not concerned with length; were just concerned with quality, especially in todays times. I was just sitting at my (recording) console playing guitar one day in open-G tuning. Hes referring to the alternate guitar tuning behind many of Keith Richards Rolling Stones riffs. But while theyre still operating without a record label, the hooky strut of this years self-titled debut album suggests the stadium league might soon have to make a little room. Because in the coolest way, the most interesting thing by far about Marc LaBelle, from buzzy Los Angeles quartet Dirty Honey, is his talent. Dirty Honey came together in 2017 when Labelle, a New York native, met guitarist John Notto at the singer's regular covers gig at a Santa Monica bar. 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