Springing up from the deep Oakland Indie/underground scene are the doomy/shoegazy Pillowprince. With great songcraft and introspective lyrics, it hits the healing spot just right in these turbulent times. We’ll be on the lookout for more new musidoomy/c from this act in 2025. Their new EP pretty, baby! is releasing from the respected Dune Altar label this spring. In the meantime, check out “Mercurial” now! 

Bio:
Pillowprince is an Oakland-based indie gaze band that makes rock from cracking folds of leather and glittering chain link, from nights of red-gelled stage lights and mornings after that are way too bright, from hair matted with joy and danger and most of all from bodies making places for themselves only they know.

Songwriter and guitarist Olivia Lee sings about queer joy, pain, love and subversion, punctuating raw sincerity with vibrant brooding guitar riffs. Together with Sea Snyder on drums, they create dense, propulsive shoegaze anthems.

Massive and melodious, Pillowprince ebbs and flows between a dramatic intimate grandeur and irreverent indie pop on their debut EP, pretty, baby!, coming out on Dune Altar Records in Spring 2025.