SHELTER IN PLACE BORN PROJECT ATWATER PUNX RELEASE THEIR DEBUT SINGLE
“GHOST TOWN”
LISTEN TO “GHOST TOWN” : HERE
Los Angeles band Atwater Punx have released their debut single "Ghost Town” off of their forthcoming EP The Flea Draws the Blood that comes out 5/28.
Atwater Punx is the brainchild of family duo Stacy (American Hi-Fi, Letters to Cleo etc.) and Kristen Wagner Jones (Shut Up Stella, Bullet & Snowfox). Both Stacy and Kristen are lifelong musicians. The couple have each spent their entire careers making music apart, but it was the birth of their son that drove them to make music together. After their song Waylon was born they started putting together ideas around toddler nap times and after bedtime in their home studio. When the shelter in place orders hit Los Angeles, their creativity kicked into overdrive and they hunkered down to finishing a batch of songs sonically inspired by bands like The Clash and Bikini Kill, naming the project Atwater Punx after their neighborhood, Atwater Village.
“Ghost Town,” the first single off the three song EP is about the isolation and disconnection of a once busy city turned quiet and nearly completely still, overnight. The song is steeped in the heaviness of the collective struggle to overcome what will most likely be one of the biggest challenges of our lifetime.
Kristen Wagner Jones was a part of the alternative pop group, Shut Up Stella signed to Epic Records in 2006 and shot a pilot for MTV that documented the making of their debut album. The group disbanded in 2010, after which Jones started her own indie-dance-rock band, Bullet & Snowfox, with guitar player, Josh Shapiro. The band played around the LA club scene, festivals, LA Fashion week and their music was featured on numerous film and TV shows. This new Atwater Punx release marks Wagner Jones’s first foray back into music since becoming a mom and her first collaboration with husband, Stacy Jones.
Stacy Jones got his start as the frontman and main songwriter for American Hi-Fi, who had the 2001 hit “Flavor of the Weak.” After the peak of the American Hi-Fi days his career took the most unlikely of turns into being a touring and studio drummer and a Music Director. Thirteen years in Jones is one of the most in-demand music directors in his field - working with chart-topping artists like Miley Cyrus, Noah Cyrus, 5 Seconds of Summer, the Chainsmokers and Troye Sivan among others. In addition to the MD work, he still works as a drummer, writer, musician, producer and tours consistently. He is an active member of his bands American Hi-Fi, and Letters to Cleo, and has been the touring drummer for Matchbox Twenty since 2012. Last year he did double duty on the Letters to Cleo fall tour, opening with his band American Hi-Fi then playing drums with the headlining act, Letters to Cleo.
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