About
Pissed Jeans are a working-class punk band from Allentown, Pennsylvania, known for channeling frustration into a sludgy, sarcastic mix of grunge and hardcore. Fronted by Matt Korvette, their sound pairs bruising guitars and pounding drums with lyrics about sexual frustration and blue-collar ennui.
Formed in 2003 by members of the Gatecrashers during a sweaty road trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the group began as a joke project inspired by early-’80s punk and ’90s hardcore. Originally called Unrequited Hard-On, they soon adopted the name Pissed Jeans and released their debut, Shallow (2005), later reissued in 2014. After drummer Tim Wynarczuk left, Sean McGuinness joined, and the band signed to the legendary label Sub Pop. Despite their rising profile, members kept day jobs that fueled their grimly humorous lyrics, heard on releases like Hope for Men (2007), King of Jeans (2009), and Honeys (2013).
Following 2017’s Why Love Now, the band took a long break before returning in 2024 with Half Divorced—proving that, two decades on, their biting humor and ferocious sound remain intact.
Morgan Garrett has long been a stalwart presence in independent American experimental music. One of those souls reared in the borderlands where rural Appalachia begins to melt into the Midwest, where the shadows of DuPont Chemical and Perdue Pharma lay over thousands of lives. Reaching for any sonic tools without pretense of recapitulating any musical tradition, his work evades the confines of genre, but has found a home amidst both the more personal and off-kilter visions from Americana noise and industrial music, and the fringes of electronic music. Morgan’s live performances are notoriously potent and surreal. The 2024 release of his acclaimed debut LP Purity on Orange Milk Records underscores the commitment to his craft and to the wider world of challenging electronic music. “The Mirror” is Morgan’s follow-up to Purity, and his most realized project to date.