[Cover photo credit to Lance Bangs]
Los Angeles Psych-Punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared new track “Empire” alongside an official video. The song is taken from their seventh studio album Data Doom, due September 1, 2023 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records. The track has “apocalyptically intense lyrics” and the video aims to capture “psychedelic mayhem.”
Having just concluded a trek across Europe, the band recently announced a run of headline U.S. tour dates for this Fall, which include performances at Warsaw in Brooklyn and The Troubadour in Los Angeles.
Through six albums and performances with the likes of Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Cheap Trick, ZZ Top and more, Frankie and the Witch Fingers have gone global. Meanwhile, Data Doom is described as their “most eclectic work yet.”
To create the cover art for Data Doom Frankie and the Witch Fingers reached out to Italian illustrator Carlo Schievano and UK-based graphic designer Jordan Warren, who then joined forces in assembling a mixed-media piece “complete with its own language system and accompanying decoder.”
Nikki “Pickle” Smith says:
It was really fascinating to see two different artistic voices working together to make something so unique, with all these hidden elements for people to figure out.
Regarding the record, Dylan Sizemore says:
There was no pressure and no real time constraint for this record, and because of that the creativity flowed in a very free way that probably wouldn’t have happened if we’d been on the clock in a studio. It showed us that the more we take the time to communicate and share our ideas with each other, the more it feeds our creative energy and helps us to make something we’re all really excited about.
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS LIVE 2023
AUGUST
25 – Purple City Music Fest – Edmonton, CAN
SEPTEMBER
9 – The Usual Place – Las Vegas, NV **
10 – Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ **
11 – Love Buzz – El Paso, TX **
14 – Parish – Austin, TX **
15 – Andy’s Bar – Denton, TX **
16 – Continental Club – Houston, TX **
17 – Gasa Gasa – New Orleans, LA **
19 – JJs Bohemia – Chattanooga, TN
20 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN #
21 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA #
22 – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC #
23 – Pour House – Charleston, SC #
25 – Black Cat – Washington, DC #
26 – Crystal Ballroom – Somerville, MA ~
27 – Sala Rossa – Montreal, QC ~
28 – Space Ballroom – Hamden, CT ~
29 – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA ~
30 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY ~
OCTOBER
2 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH #
3 – Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL #
4 – Miramar Theatre – Milwaukee, WI #
6 – Hi-Dive – Denver, CO #
7 – Hi-Dive – Denver, CO #
8 – Sister Bar – Albuquerque, NM #
27 – Quartyard – San Diego, CA @
28 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA@ **
29 – Rickshaw Stop (Psyched! Fest) – San Francisco, CA @
31 – Rev Hall – Portland, OR @
NOVEMBER
1 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA @
3 – Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA @
4 – SLO Brew – San Luis Obispo, CA @
** w/ Spoon Benders
# w/ Wine Lips
~ w/ Iguana Death Cult
@ w/ MONSTERWATCH
