Two sisters who form a northern California-based rock/pop/punk band with seven albums and a handful of singles, and currently planning a new record. Active since 2007, one of their many highlights includes being the special guests on Green Day’s Revolution Radio North American tour in 2016 and last year they shared the stage with Jack White. Two nights after this interview is released, they will be performing in Sacramento, California, and in October alone they performed in Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and in California – a total of 16 shows in 30 days in eleven states – and early this year they even did four shows in Japan. They have even been featured by Rolling Stone Italia. They have over 3600 monthly listeners on Spotify, where their top five songs alone have a combined total of well over half-a-million streams.
(Lucy) “I actually wrote it while I was studying in college. I was in the middle of a marketing class, and I just was stricken with inspiration… I waited until the class was out and I ran outside and I got my phone out and opened up the voice memos and I was standing behind a bush, and I was singing the melody into my phone. I rushed home from school that day and once I got back to my house, I immediately got my guitar out and fleshed out the song and it just came out so easily.”
(Lucy) “Gwenny wanted to play the guitar and wanted to write songs and wanted to sing and I was looking up to my big sister being like, ‘Oh dang, that's cool.’ And once we started writing it was immediate and just like magnetic and a crazy force.”
(Gwendolyn) “It's hard to imagine my life without music and just how it helps me in really so many facets of my life but just the process of songwriting and that creative outlet.”
(Lucy) “We started playing original material because we were so young that it was kind of harder to play other people's songs.”
(Lucy) “To be asked to open for Green Day – pretty much by Billie Joe (Armstrong) himself – was just outrageous and it is definitely an experience we will never forget.”
(Lucy) “The preliminary groundwork was definitely laid by Kepi Ghoulie who played in The Groovie Ghoulies… we spent years touring with him as basically young teenagers and he really taught us the ways of the road and what to do when you get to the venue and how to act and how to be professional and how to have the best time possible all wrapped into one.”
(Gwendolyn) “There's definitely a few tiers that go up from DIY touring to smaller clubs, a little bit larger rooms up to theaters and with each of those steps there's more verbiage that you might not be familiar with, or expectations when it comes to the whole run of the show.”
(Lucy) “People say, ‘Wow, I can't believe how full you guys sound as a two piece and I can't believe that it's just the two of you up there’ and ‘I heard you from the back of the room and I wasn't looking and then I looked over and I saw it was just two people and I'm shocked’.”
(Lucy) “We're really interested in the performance itself, which is why we love recording to tape, because it's basically like a really authentic version of literally the take that you are trying to record. A lot of people nowadays record digitally, and they chop up and splice so many takes together and mash into one that they think represents the song the best. But we're very enchanted by capturing the take.”
(Gwendolyn) “There definitely are some parallels with the way that we tackle touring as well as recording. Touring we started off just getting super disciplined playing shows; every single day, 30 days in a row, no days off, two sets a day, and having that same approach where recording analog there's really not any shortcuts there so we have to get those takes and we have to be disciplined in the studio.”
(Gwendolyn) “When I was in college, I did college radio and that really helped me stay up to date on a lot of new releases. You've had a lot of experience DJing which has had you digging through the 45 bins as well and just kind of pushing to learn more.”
(Gwendolyn) “We have had the opportunity to do a couple of European tours as well as Japan and Canada dates as well and it's always so phenomenal seeing how music doesn't have any boundaries, that everyone can relate and have so much passion for it and because of that passion the friendships that are created all around the world.”
(Gwendolyn) “I think that we can also be harder on each other due to the fact that we're sisters because at the end of the day, we're always going to be sisters where a friendship you might be worried about saying something in fear of losing that friendship but I can't really lose my sister.”
“Bullet in Disguise”
“Fallin’”