Alt-Rock du\o Taipei Houston has shared a new single – “The Middle Out!” on all DSPs and with an accompanying music video. The group will release its debut album Once Bit Never Bored out on November 4th, 2022 via C3 Records. The group is the brainchild of Myles and Layne Ulrich, sons of Metallica drummer and Legend Lars Ulrich. The group has been gigging all summer with BottleRock Napa, Lollapalooza, dates with Bastadane, and a recent West Coast tour with Melvins.
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Taipei Houston are a duo from the Bay Area in Northern California. Comprised of brothers Myles (drums, guitar) and Layne Ulrich (lead vocals, bass), who play drums and bass respectively, the band was born out of both brothers coming back to their childhood home during the pandemic. They then moved down to Los Angeles, and once able to perform live again, started playing shows throughout Southern California.
On their forthcoming project, Once Bit Never Bored, Taipei Houston viscerally tap into all of the best parts of the last 30 years of rock ‘n’ roll, layering garage rock’s frenetic sparsity with grunge’s fuzzy overdrive, and psych rock’s effortless instrumental sprawl. The band’s megawatt, slinky songs instantly conjure other iconic duos, such as The Kills, Death From Above 1979, and, of course, The White Stripes.
Says the band about the project, “To us, Taipei Houston is about going against the grain in every aspect. We live in a time that is ripe with extremely difficult and confusing challenges. Technology grips the world more and more, politics have become so polarized, we are heading towards climate disaster. This music is born and bred out of the contemporary, buzzing digital anxiety we all experience, and how we can try to escape those feelings – even for a second.”
Taipei Houston recently played Reading & Leeds Festival are set to play Austin City Limits this year, in addition to their own headlining shows throughout the U.S. before 2022 is out.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
Sep 13 – Flagstaff, AZ
Sep 14 – Santa Fe, NM
Sep 16 – Boulder, CO
Sep 17 – Fort Collins, CO
Sep 22 – Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life
Oct 8 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock 2022
Oct 9 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
Oct 16 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits