N8NOFACE SIGNS TO STONES THROW, SHARES “WAITING TO WAIT FOR YOU”
N8NOFACE SIGNS TO STONES THROW RECORDS, SHARES NEW SINGLE “WAITING TO WAIT FOR YOU”
ON TOUR WITH EYEDRESS ACROSS THE US THIS SUMMER
Listen to "Waiting to Wait for You":
N8NOFACE (pronounced “Nate-no-face”) has signed with Stones Throw. To celebrate the signing, and ahead of touring this spring and summer, he’s released the new song “Waiting to Wait for You.”
N8NOFACE had already barely survived an insane Hollywood biopic of a gangster/rockstar life long before Fred Durst invited him to join Limp Bizkit’s Loserville tour, playing arenas across the US and Europe. His drug-addled ultraviolent lifestyle in Tucson, AZ, shaped the dark themes and chaotic sound of his music. Now on the other side of that turmoil, after relocating to Long Beach, CA in the early 2010s and cleaning up, N8's kept one foot firmly in the synth-punk world while also exploring his more vulnerable, tender side.
N8 began his music career as one half of glitchy chiptune Tucson duo Crimekills back in the MySpace era, recording one-minute songs on the fly in his closet. Since that time he’s collaborated with Eyedress and the Bloody Beetroots and performed with the likes of Cypress Hill as well as Limp Bizkit.
N8’s signing to Stones Throw might surprise anyone aware of his past releases on Eyeball Records and Justin Pearson’s Three One G, but to those familiar with a certain dimension of Stones Throw’s catalog – from the Minimal Wave compilations to bands like Automatic – as well as N8’s range as an artist, it makes perfect sense.
Where N8's earlier music was fueled by his addictions and the dark tales of hometown friends associated with Mexican drug cartels, new song “Waiting to Wait for You” looks at the day-to-day frustrations of love. N8 says, “It’s about still finding joy in watching your partner try outfit after outfit on; feeling like your whole night is waiting to wait, and you can't wait to do it.”
He explains, “Most songs I have written have come to me through things I have seen or experienced (drug tales, border life and the streets), But I have always been a fan of love, and wrote about that too. Love found in the darkest places, sometimes by the scariest people. I always bounce back and forth from heartbreak in the streets or from a lover. This song explores the cool things about love, while still having a backdrop of the scary hard world around us.”
For “Waiting to Wait for You”, N8NOFACE worked with producer/songwriter Marcos Garcia (aka Chico Mann, founding member of Antibalas and Here Lies Man), who’d previously backed N8NOFACE as his touring guitarist/keyboardist.
N8NOFACE performs at Cruel World festival this weekend before heading out on the road with Eyedress for The Stoner Tour this summer.
N8NOFACE upcoming tour date
May 17 - Pasadena, CA – Cruel World Festival
Jul 08 - San Francisco, CA – The Masonic*
Jul 10 - Seattle, WA – Neptune*
Jul 11 - Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom*
Jul 15 - Denver, CO – Summit*
Jul 17 - Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater*
Jul 18 - Chicago, IL – House of Blues*
Jul 24 - Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring*
Jul 25 - New York, NY – Irving Plaza*
Jul 26 - Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club*
Jul 28 - Charlotte, NC – The Underground*
Jul 29 - Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theater*
Jul 30 - Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl*
Aug 01 - Houston, TX – House of Blues*
Aug 02 - Austin, TX – EMO's*
Aug 03 - Dallas, TX – House of Blues*
Aug 05 - Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren*
* With Eyedress
