DIRTY HONEY RELEASES ITS NEW ALBUM,
CAN’T FIND THE BRAKES
FEATURING THE BAND’S TOP TEN SINGLE,
“WON’T TAKE ME ALIVE”
With a hot new single, “Won’t Take Me Alive,” now Top 10 at Rock Radio, and the band well into their extensive, nine-week, 39-date North American headline tour, today, Dirty Honey sees the release of its full-length sophomore album, Can’t Find The Brakes. Produced by Nick DiDia and recorded at his studio in Byron Bay, Australia this past Spring, the album also features the recently-released second single, “Coming Home (Ballad of the Shire),” a 180-degree turnabout from the high-energy rock’n’roll the band is known for. “Coming Home (Ballad of the Shire)” is a profoundly personal, shatter-your-heart-into-a-million-pieces ballad and a song that illustrates what Dirty Honey is capable of. You can access the Can’t Find The Brakes album HERE.
But wait, there’s more: Famed world-renowned graffiti artist Kelly “RISK” Gravel, who designed and spray-painted the Can’t Find The Brakes album’s original cover art, has pulled a bit of a “Willy Wonka.” Distributed to a handful of record stores across America are ten copies of the Can’t Find The Brakes album. Unlike the standard issue, each one of these has been specially embellished with its one-of-a-kind album cover artwork, each one individually spray-painted by “RISK.” Those who find and purchase these one-of-a-kind albums will win tickets to one of the band’s shows and more. Check out the video clip HERE to see RISK as he creates these exclusive items – and happy hunting!
The making of Can’t Find The Brakes, as told by Marc LaBelle…
“Making the Can’t Find The Brakes album was a completely different experience than making the Dirty Honey album,” said Marc LaBelle. “Covid created a situation where we weren’t really living or experiencing. But, for our new album, we were able to spend time with each other again. We spent more than a month with Nick, our producer, at his studio in Australia. Just getting back into the studio with him – no ZOOM this time – all of us physically being together in the same space allowed us to do some experimenting, all of which contributed to the wide spectrum of emotion on the new album.”
About Dirty Honey
Some musicians take a while to build an audience and connect with fans. For the Los Angeles-based quartet Dirty Honey, success came right out of the gate…
In September 2019, Dirty Honey made history as the only unsigned artist in Billboard’s near four decades to go all the way to #1 on the magazine’s Mainstream and Hard Rock Charts with its debut single, “When I’m Gone.” Since that weighty debut, Dirty Honey opened for The Who, Guns N’ Roses, Slash with Alter Bridge, and The Black Crowes (when the band received glowing press reviews and a standing ovation at the majority of the tour’s concerts — unprecedented for a support act, and co-headlined the 2022 “Young Guns Tour” with Mammoth WVH. Dirty Honey’s self-titled album – without being signed to a major label – debuted at #2 on the Current Hard Rock Chart, Rolling Stone featured them as “An Artist You Need To Know,” they were tagged as the “do-not-miss-band” at more than a dozen major North American summer festivals, and played sold-out shows on their first two North American headline tours.
In May 2022 the band released its international EP/LP debut and headed to the U.K. and Europe for their first tour there, playing headline shows, festival slots and support dates with Guns N’ Roses, KISS, and Rival Sons. Both legs of the band’s 2023 UK/European headline tours sold out, with most of the venues having to upscale due to ticket demand.
In April 2023, Dirty Honey – Marc LaBelle/vocals, John Notto/guitar, Justin Smolian/bass, and newest member, Jaydon Bean/drums) – headed to Australia to record their new album, Can’t Find The Brakes, with a release date of November 3. The album’s first single, “Won’t Take Me Alive” – released on July 7, 2023 – is a literal, take-no-prisoners-balls-out rocker, and a Top 10 track at Active Rock Radio. The band’s follow-up single, “Coming Home,” is a deeply personal, shatter-your-heart-into-a-million-pieces ballad and a song that illustrates what Dirty Honey is capable of.
Dirty Honey launched their 2023-24 North American world tour on October 18, preceded by a handful of U.S. dates supporting Guns N’ Roses, and is currently playing headline shows through to mid-December.
Dirty Honey continues to take the world by storm.
Dirty Honey, L-R/Back: Justin Smolian/bass; Jaydon Bean/drums
L-R/Front: Marc LaBelle/vocals; John Notto/guitars
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