Thursday, February 15, 2024

Founding member of NYC punk rock legends Lunachicks preps “Delete The World” follow-up to recent bow of Lunachicks documentary at DOC NYC.

Guitarist Gina Volpe’s debut solo album arrives Feb. 23; Brooklyn Vegan calls “Drink Me” single a “catchy, swaggering dance-punk song.” Watch video here.

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Gina Volpe as photographed by Jayme Thornton


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Gina Volpe | About



“Channels modern angst via detuned metal guitars and rattling 808 beats.” — Rolling Stone

“Layered with chunky riffs, pop, and dance sounds.” — She Shreds

Gina Volpe, prolific NYC-based artist and founding member of punk rock royals, Lunachicks, enters the next phase of her career as a solo artist with the release of the debut album Delete The World on Feb. 23, 2024.

Produced by Barb Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand, Rufus Wainwright), who deftly captures Volpe’s soaring, crunching riffs and sultry magnetic voice while also delivering flashes of Brian Eno, Delete The World follows closely on the heels of a Lunchicks renaissance.

The late 2023 premiere at the world-renowned DOC NYC documentary film festival of “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks” featuring Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7, and others, is the perfect primer on Lunachicks’s lasting influence, which began when Volpe co-founded the ferocious punk band with her fellow high school classmates in the 1990s. Lunachicks released a half-dozen albums, toured the world numerous times, and staked a claim in rock history.

Gina Volpe is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Gina Volpe | “Drink Me”

 
[WATCH]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XP5NhS0aYE

“A catchy, swaggering dance-punk song.” — Brooklyn Vegan

“‘Drink Me’ was inspired by my occasional tendency to lean precariously on vices — wine in this case — but also the collective experience of friends I had been in conversations with about obsession and addiction,” Volpe explains. “The lyric, ‘one foot in the grave, the other in my mouth,’ is a cheeky observation of how messy and dangerous our habit of running to the nearest exit can be.” See the video now via Brooklyn Vegan or at the link above.

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Gina Volpe
Delete The World
Feb. 23, 2024
(Heavy Nose Records)


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Track Listing:

01. Drink Me (WATCH)
02. Until I Arrive
03. Delete The World
04. The Plan (LISTEN)
05. Slow Burn
06. Currents
07. Escaped From The Lab (LISTEN)
08. Even The Doomed
09. Mountain, What Is Your Name
10. Begin
11. One In The Same
12. Low
13. In Water

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More About Delete The World by Gina Volpe


Gina Volpe, prolific NYC-based artist and founding member of punk rock royals, Lunachicks, enters the next phase of her career as a solo artist with the release of the debut album Delete The World on Feb. 23, 2024.

Produced by Barb Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand, Rufus Wainwright), who deftly captures Volpe’s soaring, crunching riffs and sultry magnetic voice while also delivering flashes of Brian Eno, Delete The World follows closely on the heels of a Lunchicks renaissance.

The late 2023 premiere at the world-renowned DOC NYC documentary film festival of “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks” featuring Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7, and others, is the perfect primer on Lunachicks’s lasting influence, which began when Volpe co-founded the ferocious punk band with her fellow high school classmates in the 1990s. Lunachicks released a half-dozen albums, toured the world numerous times, and staked a claim in rock history.

Now Volpe brings decades of chops, experiences, and attitude to Delete The World, adding brooding, textured, and experimental sounds that combine on lead single and video “Drink Me,” recently called “a catchy, swaggering dance-punk song” by Brooklyn Vegan. Heavy bass riffs and retro synth sounds pair perfectly with the visually arresting music video created by award-winning pop surrealist Stänzii.

“‘Drink Me’ was inspired by my occasional tendency to lean precariously on vices — wine in this case — but also the collective experience of friends I had been in conversations with about obsession and addiction,” Volpe explains. “The lyric, ‘one foot in the grave, the other in my mouth,’ is a cheeky observation of how messy and dangerous our habit of running to the nearest exit can be.”

While Volpe is known for her furious guitar solos, Delete The World proves that she is a true musical nomad at heart, a fact that becomes even clearer when asked about her influences.

“I am always so careful about who I cite as an influence because it doesn’t make a lot of sense in relation to what I’m doing,” Volpe explains. “Pink Floyd, I mean, I sound nothing like them. David Bowie’s Scary Monsters, Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love.’ I also love Death From Above, but I sound nothing like them. ZZ Top... I don’t hear any of them in my music either!”

Volpe also mentions her fondness for newer bands such as Idles, Dry Cleaning, and Viagra Boys before using this question about influences to point out a reality that follows proactive female artists like herself.

“I feel like there can be a binary way of thinking in the music industry,” she says. “Even in the streaming platform’s algorithms, which suggest gender is a genre in and of itself. This conversation vexed me my whole career. My influences span the gender spectrum.”

Like the societal borders that Volpe rightly reminds us about, she describes Delete The World as “a disintegration of not just traditional stylistic borders, but also mental ones.”

Many of these songs reflect on coping mechanisms gone awry, unintended consequences, and how perception can cut you loose or keep you confined. It is a dubious assumption that humans are in control of anything,” she says.

Volpe is absolutely in control of her ability to take everything she has absorbed during her prolific career and turn it into a singular solo statement. “With Delete The World, I get to color outside the lines and be as messy as I wanna be.”

Delete The World by Gina Volpe arrives on Feb. 23, 2024. The lead single and video “Drink Me” are streaming now.

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Gina Volpe | Links


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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact

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