song premiere: "None of My Business" - Stevie
photo: Xander Stewart
On their debut single, Stevie perfectly portrays the wistful nature of a now ended romance. Their breezy and jangly, acoustic-driven pop owes itself to the sounds of transition; the steady pacing and sweetened vocals coming across like a wild, beautiful dream with a most unexpected ending. "None of My Business" is a perfect musical equivalent of its subject matter; the band exploring the contrasting dynamics of a relationships — the beautiful sweet beginnings that can turn to bitter, but needed reckonings. It's a song of realization, and has the band coming to grips with what comes after you realize that the one you wanted doesn't want to be yours. Picking up the pieces in that moment is hard, but "None of My Business" is this bright, beautiful reminder that you can recover.
Stream the song below and then keep scrolling to read the band's thoughts on the new tune AND find their set times for Hopscotch on Friday.
As the band explained to TGE: We started playing together last Fall, and this is the first song we ever wrote together. One of my favorite parts about being in this band is watching our songwriting practice develop and become more and more collaborative. We each have our own set of defining tastes and perspectives that shape what we bring to songwriting, and they’re different enough that whatever we write together is way cooler than what I might write alone. We’re a band with two guitars and no bass, so we get to play around with different ways of making the guitar sound fill the space. I tend to stick with surfy guitar noodles and power pop/60s garage sounds, but Chesley (lead guitar) brings this joyful yet heavy and doomy element that makes our songs a lot more fun and moody, and Hannah (drums, backup vocals) always comes up with a perfect vocal harmony. She also has a great ear for suggesting textures and layers to add.
This is our sad break-up jam. It's about that hazy period right after a break-up when you have to redefine your boundaries and rearrange your routines and priorities. When you have to re-draw the circle and exclude the person you love. It's about the melancholy of still caring deeply about someone who isn’t good for you. In my case, it’s about learning how to look out for my own feelings instead of prioritizing someone else's.
- 12:30PM at Slim’s for the ¡Que Viva! Day Party 2018 presented by Churchkey Records
- 4PM at Cirque du Vol Day Party
- 9:30PM at Slim’s (Official Hopscotch Show)