[Cover photo credit to Tad Unreasonable]

The Paranoid Style have shared new Rock song “White Wine Whatever,” which is “an ode to contemporary malaise and cognitive dissonance.” This marks the third single made available from the band’s fifth LP, titled Known Associates, due for release on February 13th, 2026, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Bar/None Records.

Elizabeth Nelson shares:

A favorite Paranoid Style track of mine, though recorded under a dark cloud of inter-band mystery that day—Tim was pissed at Jon, which is common enough, but even William and Peter and the typically unflappable Mike V. seemed on edge. Of course I hadn’t slept the night before, or any of the recent nights, finishing the songs and all. We were maniacs. This thing is just a pure fucking brawl. By the time Eugene Edwards—Dwight Yoakam’s lead guitarist—laid in a series of intensely greasy licks, Matt Douglas of the Mountain Goats had jumped in too, on sax, it was the closest thing to Mick Taylor and Bobby Keys I’ve heard since ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.’ If nothing else, tune in for that. My fingers are still sticky.

The Paranoid Style’s bandleader Elizabeth Nelson is also an award-winning journalist, who can now add podcast host to her resume with the recently launched Known Associates podcast, presented by New Pony in affiliation with Southwest Review.

On the Known Associates podcast, Nelson talks to other singers and writers about their lives and art. The first two episodes are available now and feature Craig Finn from the Hold Steady and Patterson Hood from Drive-By Truckers.

Elizabeth Nelson’s usual Paranoid Style lineup of Peter Holsapple, William Matheny, Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Jon Langmead and Timothy Bracy all play on Known Associates, the follow up to 2024’s The Interrogator.

Known Associates also includes a notable appearance from Eugene Edwards, a Danny Gatton disciple who is Dwight Yoakam‘s lead guitarist.