White Denim

The four-piece band from Austin, TX, White Denim have released their first single "Pretty Green," from their upcoming album Corsicana Lemonade. This scuzzy cut is from the band's 10-track fifth studio record produced by Tom Schick. The album is due out on October 29th via Downtown Records.

In 2005, two bands, Parque Touch (Josh Block, James Petralli, Lucas Anderson) and Peach Train (Steve Terebecki), played a show together at Beerland in Austins. After the show Steve was asked to play bass for Parque Touch and the band became four, playing under the pseudonyms Byshop Massive (Lucas), Bop English (James), Nicholas Mallard (Josh), and Terry Beckins (Steve); however, in February 2006, Lucas moved to Russia and the resulting power trio changed its name to White Denim.

The new lineup began playing the local Austin circuit while recording punk-infused, psychedelic blues-rock in Block's 1940s Spartan trailer. In 2007, the band self-released its first EP entitled Let's Talk About It. While on tour that year, the band recorded a nine-song "tour EP" entitled Workout Holiday, which was only sold at shows. Workout Holiday caught the ear of new netlabel RCRD LBL, and the band signed on to re-record three of the songs. These songs were exclusively released as the RCRD LBL EP, one MP3 track at a time over the course of the first few months of 2008.

Since these releases, the band has toured extensively, playing shows including SXSW and CMJ Music Marathon, and also received the award of "Best New Band" at the 2008 Austin Music Awards. White Denim released their debut U.S. full-length LP, entitled Exposion in late 2008. Their third full-length album, Fits, was released via Full Time Hobby in 2009. Then, in 2010 the band self-released a collection of 12 tracks under the title Last Day of Summer. On May 24, 2011, White Denim released their fourth studio album D on Downtown Records.

Their music draws influences from dub, psychedelic rock, blues, punk rock, progressive rock, soul, jazz, experimental rock with home-based recording, jamming approach, intense looping work and unusual song structures. The group goes on tour with Tame Impala in October.

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