Ramona and the Holy Smokes will be releasing their debut, self-titled LP on September 26th, 2025, and have revealed their lead single, “Gonna Be Mine” accompanied by a video.

The song journeys “between authentic longing and satire,” presenting a “tongue-in-cheek vision” of having “a white Pekingese” and “drinking Chardonnay.”

Lead singer Ramona Martinez says of the track:

One day driving through a wealthy area of Central Virginia, I spotted a big white house on a hill and started to sing, ‘That’s gonna be my house someday, that’s gonna be my house someday. I’m gonna find a way to make it mine.

While the song was written as satire, I’ve found that I connect more to the lyrics than I initially realized.

During a songwriting session with her co-writer, who is a Remington, Virginia-based songwriter, Maddi Mae Martin, the pair turned Martinez’s hook into tune about a southern woman’s dreams of a better life.

Produced by Kai Crowe-Getty (Lord Nelson) and guitarist Kyle Kilduff, and engineered by Alex De Jong, Ramona and the Holy Smokes is anchored by Martinez’s original songwriting, much of which she credits to the “honky tonk angels” who help generate her song ideas.

The album is “dominated by themes of heartache and struggle, of what it means to get stuck in unhealthy situations and to yearn for ways to escape them, and of balancing the need for love and companionship with the need for independence and creative freedom.” 

Catch Ramona and the Holy Smokes On Tour:

July 31 – Norfolk, VA – The Annex

August 16 – Richmond, VA – Northside Grille

August 22 – Greensboro, NC – Flat Iron

August 23 – Weaverville, NC – Eda’s Hide-a-Way

August 30 – Sperryville, VA – The Black Twig Diner & Bar