The Record Company, JJ Wilde

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Travis Shinn

The Record Company

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media release: “The Record Company mean business…”—Guitar World

“Impressive stuff…”—American Songwriter

“[of “How High”] precisely the antidote we need to combat them covid blues.”—Classic Rock

"Play Loud is proof that the Record Company have grown...the result is a record that should be played loud, as the title suggests."—Pop Matters

The Record Company’s highly anticipated new album Play Loud is out today on Concord Records. Listen/stream HERE.

On Sunday, the GRAMMY-nominated rock band will kick off their 32-City tour in Milwaukee with support from JJ Wilde on select dates. See below for a complete list of dates; additional info and tickets are HERE.

Listen to an interview with SPIN/Lipps Service Podcast HERE and watch the band’s Chris Vos on Premier Guitar “Hooked” HERE.

“How High,” the first single released from the LP, is currently #3 at AAA Radio. The track has also reached Top 3 on the Americana Singles Chart while Play Loud has been Top 3 on the Non-Comm Albums Chart in advance of its street date.

Play Loud is produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Dave Sardy (Oasis, Wolfmother, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem.) On the album, the group stretches out artistically and explores their far-flung influences. “We totally flipped the process on this record to allow for every idea and possibility, so it wasn’t just the three of us, closed off in our bubble. It was like, ‘Let’s take some risks and see what we can really do,’” describes bassist Alex Stiff.

The Record Company—consisting of guitarist/lead vocalist Chris Vos, bassist Alex Stiff and drummer Marc Cazorla—most recently released their EP Side Project (also via Concord Records), which finds the band reimagining and reconstructing some of their favorite tracks by a wide range of artists including Big Mama Thornton, Cypress Hill, INXS and Willie Dixon. Listen HERE.

Play Loud is the follow-up to the band’s critically lauded sophomore album All of This Life. Upon its release, Rolling Stone noted that the single “Life to Fix” “isn’t so much a return to form as it is taking that form to a big new level,” while NPR Music raved that the track “breathes new life into a style of music.”

The band’s debut, Give It Back to You, earned them a GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. The critically acclaimed record produced three Top Ten hits at Triple-A radio, including lead single “Off the Ground,” which reached #1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. Entertainment Weekly describes their debut album as a “soul scorcher.” The Record Company has appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” CBS “This Morning,” NPR’s “World Café” and SiriusXM, and has shared bills with John Mayer, My Morning Jacket, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Zac Brown Band.

JJ Wilde has had a dynamite year! She was the first woman in 25 years to win Rock Album of the Year at this years JUNO Awards for her debut album ‘Ruthless’ (Last female winner was Alanis Morissette for ‘Jagged Little Pill’ in 1996), her debut single “The Rush” won the SOCAN Rock Music Award and was featured on the hit TV show The Good Doctor. She also made headlines when she performed “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” as a tribute to Eddie Schwartz and won the 2021 Jim Beam INDIES Award for Rock Artist Of The Year. Now she is hitting the road this fall opening for The Record Company on their US tour, stopping at top market spots such as Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, and more.

JJ recently released her EP WILDE, which Atwood Magazine called "a hearty dose of dynamic, feverish, and unapologetic rock” and stated it “...burns with raw passion as the artist lights her own inner fire of empowerment, escape, and resilience." Hit tracks “Best Boy” and “Mercy” can both be found on WILDE in addition to her focus single “Off The Rails” and her infallible cover of the Stevie Nicks/Tom Petty classic “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with The Glorious Sons’ Brett Emmons lending his vocal stylings on the duet.

Ever the trailblazer, Wilde made history in 2020 as the first female artist to simultaneously hit #1 on all three Canadian rock charts with her debut single “The Rush,” holding the slot for a whopping 19 weeks. Never one to rest on her laurels, Wilde quickly followed with two more back-to-back #1’s: “Best Boy,” the IDGAF ode to altering the societal narrative for how women should behave, and her most recent hit “Mercy,” a tour de force of modern rock in the form of a tale of revenge.

Wilde’s debut album RUTHLESS, which garnered praise from American Songwriter (“profoundly moving”), Ones to Watch (“soul-stirring”), Alternative Press (“for fans of [The] Struts, Amy Winehouse and YONAKA … kicking ass and taking names”), Atwood (“Fiercely unapologetic”), and Earmilk (“undeniable grit”). She was also added to the lineup at the 2022 Download Festival, the UK’s premier rock festival and is set for a full band global stream performance for Jim Beam Bourbon’s “Live from Inside” from The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on June 12th and 13th. More info here.