New Releases category interest

Chicago diet punk band Guardrail is back! The band has today announced their new album Content, set to be released on July 7th via Open Your Ears Records. Additioanlly, they have shared a brand new single and music video, “Joke’s On Me”. Watch now here: https://youtu.be/09zuX2YM0SU. Fans can pre-save the new album here: https://ffm.to/contentlp.

ADVERTISEMENT

CREATE OR CLAIM YOUR FESTIVAL PROFILE TODAY!

Do you run a festival or other type of events? Is your event in our database? If not, you can add it here and promote it to tens of thousands of Artists and Fans!

Click Here to Get Started

ArtistAndFan Festivals

The band shares: “We spent the last EP and singles dialing in our sound, so with this album we had the breathing room to dive into our style, fine-tune, and explore further. While there’s plenty of “classic Guardrail” songs, we also have a lot of firsts. Our first acoustic song, our first song with Alyssa taking over lead vocal duty, our first love song, and our first release where every member heavily contributed to the writing process. It’s super eclectic but it all sounds like Guardrail.”

Guardrail is a band from Chicago, IL consisting of Kevin Andrew (vocals), Ken Ugel (guitar), Alyssa Laessig (bass, vocals), Doug Brand (drums) and Xack Brame (guitar). The band initially began calling themselves "diet punk" as a joke, but eventually they started to own it. They're not exactly “punk” in the traditional sense, though it’s their biggest influence. They're just here to sing happy songs about not-so-happy things, marinated in Jeppson's Malört and positive energy.

In 2020 the band signed to Richmond-based label Open Your Ears Records. They released their label debut, Yikes, later that year, garnering attention from Substream Magazine, The Noise, Chorus.fm, and more.