Power pop act, Virginity, have just released their new EP, Live At The Shroyers, paying homage to their roots creating music in their bassist, Jordan Shroyer‘s, living room. They have also announced You Can’t Have My Blood, a new full-length companion to their 2024 LP, Bad Jazz. It comes out on October 15th, via Smartpunk Records. Keep reading below for more.
Stream Live At The Shroyers here: https://ffm.to/shroyerslive
Pre-order You Can’t Have My Blood: Bad Jazz Companion here: https://smartpunkshop.com/products/you-cant-have-my-blood
Speaking about the new EP, Virginity says, “Bad Jazz began with the four of us building these songs in Jordan’s living room and so we all thought it would be very fitting to take those songs back to their birthplace and perform them in their finished forms. We looked to our friend Jason Kupfer from The Pauses to fill in some of the production gaps for the live session and we enjoyed it so much it seems that he’s going to stick around with us for a bit. These tunes were built to be played live, and were recorded that way for the album, but it was important to us to do it for real for posterity to show the energy they possess and how they don’t need any studio glitz to work just as effectively. This EP is a snapshot in time. This is what Virginity sounds like live at this exact moment. You can look at our Audiotree from 2021 and see how much better we’ve gotten and we’re all so proud of that fact. We hope to keep producing live work every so often and to continue documenting our growth, not just as artists producing the best records we can, but as live performers.”
As fan favorites at Smartpunk’s SXSW showcase and Florida’s beloved FEST, Virginity have cultivated a core fanbase who are foaming at the mouth for these new tracks.
Live At The Shroyers tracklisting:
01 Going Out of Business (Live)
02 Swinging South (Live)
03 Some Hard Feelings (Live)
04 Midweekend (Live)
05 2 Sad 2 Get Stoned (Live)
06 Getting Good (Live)
The You Can’t Have My Blood tracklist will feature songs from the two EPs released this year as well as a handful of additional tracks including an unreleased original and a few covers. There will be an extremely limited vinyl release with no plans of repressing once sold out.
Virginity 2025 tour dates:
August 31, 2025 – The Ox – Gainesville, FL w/ Jer and Gutless
October -24-26 – The Fest – Gainesville, FL
Virginity’s Fidelity Castro EP was originally supposed to be a way to release the leftover scraps from the Bad Jazz recording sessions, but as the band continued to finesse the recordings, the EP morphed into something entirely different. It took on a life of its own, and taught the band it can operate more loosely than it ever has before.
Featuring 5 original tracks and a cover of one of their favorite Shins tunes, the EP shows the band finishing three partially developed concepts from the Bad Jazz sessions as well as 3 demos of songs that never made it to the studio, but showed just as much promise as anything that landed on the album. And while the basic tracks of the demos were recorded live and raw, they show another side of the band’s abilities and yearning to experiment with lo-fi production (a la a recent obsession with Guided By Voices) and attempt to not overthink something that already rocks ass.
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