Rising Colorado-based rock trio, The Velveteers — Demi Demitro (vocals, guitar), Baby Pottersmith (drums) and Jonny Fig (drums) — will be releasing their highly-anticipated sophomore album A Million Knives through Easy Eye Sound on February 14, 2025. Produced by acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning producer, musician and Easy Eye Sound founder Dan Auerbach, the 13-song A Million Knives reportedly spotlights the band’s “buzzing pile-driver” live sound, as Spin described it. A Million Knives is the follow-up to their full-length debut, 2021’s Nightmare Daydream, which they supported with opening slots with Smashing Pumpkins and Guns ‘N’ Roses — and their first headlining shows this past fall.
The forthcoming album, which features previously released singles “Go Fly Away” and “Suck The Cherry” was written after a particularly grueling stretch of the life on the road and explores the typically unspoken tolls of an industry that can be more often than not, a relentlessly cruel vipers pit of bullshit, thievery and power plays — especially a non-binary, queer and woman-fronted band.
A Million Knives‘ third and latest single “On and On” is one-part old-school garage rock ripper, one-part defiant roar, anchored around thunderous drumming, Demitro’s powerhouse vocal and scorching guitar work paired with a shout-along worthy choruses. But underneath the songcraft, is a song informed by the sort of embittering, humiliating experience that shouldn’t happen — and its narrator is fed up by.
“I always wonder if there will be a day when I won’t feel the need to write about this subject,” the band’s Demi Demitro says. “But unfortunately misogyny is far too rampant in the music industry and I refuse to put up with it.”
Directed by Demi Demitro and Baby Pottersmith, the accompanying video features the band playing the song in a room full of knives, while the band’s drummers drum with knives. Throughout, these young badasses play with a world dominating swagger.
The Velveteers are set to bring their explosive live show and forthcoming new album A Million Knives (out Valentines Day on Easy Eye Sound) across the Western United States this spring. Among the newly-announced shows are The Echo in Los Angeles, Empire Control Room in Austin, The Funhouse in Seattle and a dozen more just-added dates, mostly set for March 2025. The Boulder, Colorado-based trio will kick off the tour with a special home-state album release party in Denver, taking place February 14, before heading west.
The Velveteers’ new album A Million Knives comes Valentine’s Day 2025 on Easy Eye Sound. It’s the culmination of a period that’s seen the group penetrate through rock and roll’s old guard (opening arena shows for artists like Guns N’ Roses and Smashing Pumpkins) to offer fresh perspective as a non-binary, queer and female-fronted group in the genre.
The Velveteers Tour Dates:
2.14.25 Hi-Dive (Album Release Party) – Denver, CO*
2.28.25 Aggie Theatre – Fort Collins, CO
3.3.25 Shrine Social Club – Boise, ID
3.6.25 Mission Theater – Portland, OR
3.8.25 The Funhouse – Seattle, WA
3.11.25 Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA*
3.13.25 The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
3.14.25 Voodoo Room at House of Blues – San Diego, CA*
3.16.25 The Rebel Lounge – Phoenix, AZ x
3.20.25 The Underground – San Antonio, TX*
3.21.25 Sundown at Granada – Dallas, TX*
3.22.25 Empire Control Room – Austin, TX*
3.23.25 White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX*
3.26.25 The Bottleneck – Lawrence, KS*
3.27.25 Slowdown – Omaha, NE*
* just-announced dates
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