PRODUCED BY GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING 
ARTIST DAN AUERBACH 

FIRST SINGLE AND VIDEO
CHARMER AND THE SNAKE OUT NOW

Toronto, ON – July 8, 2021 – The Velveteers, a primal rock trio from the mountains of Boulder, CO made up of singer/guitarist, Demi Demitro, and drummers Baby Pottersmith and Jonny Fig, will unveil their debut album, Nightmare Daydream, on October 8 via Easy Eye Sound; pre-order and stream here. Produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Dan Auerbach, the record is the long-awaited first statement from a band that formed in 2014 and has been carefully honing its sound and identity ever since. Charmer And The Snake, the record’s first single, is out today with an accompanying video; watch/share here.

The band will headline at Denver’s Gothic Theatre on November 26, with more dates to follow. 

Growing up in Boulder, Demitro rebelled through her guitar, practicing up to nine hours a day and neglecting schoolwork to develop a playing style that is heavy but agile, theatrical but nuanced, grounded in rock history but wholly idiosyncratic. With Pottersmith and Fig playing on a conjoined set, the band developed a reputation for their rip-roaring performances. Clips of the band’s live shows and DIY videos made it back to Auerbach, who invited them to his studio in Nashville to produce Nightmare Daydream.

“I instantly dug them,” says Auerbach. “They’re amazing live, and their videos are so creative. And they just sound so powerful. Any time you doubletrack drums on a record, it’s going to sound so heavy. Then you put that together with this baritone guitar player who is so unique, and it’s so bombastic. There’s nothing like them.”

Demitro recalls writing Charmer And The Snake with Auerbach and recording it in the first few takes: “It was sort of a synergy moment where we all got in the room together and just started playing.” Pottersmith adds: “It’s about certain types of older guys in music scenes who think they are charming and all that but are just lizards trying to take advantage of you. They think they can manipulate you to get what they want by saying a bunch of nonsense but all the while you are aware of their true intentions and just watch as they talk themselves deep into a ditch of delusions.”

Nightmare Daydream finds The Velveteers stripping down rock and roll to its most primal elements—the riff, the rhythm, the snarl—and rebuilding it in their own image. “We don’t want to sound like a band from a different time,” says Demitro. “We want to sound like a band that’s right here right now—in this very moment.”

Nightmare Daydream Tracklist

1. Dark Horse
2. Motel #27
3. Father Of Lies
4. Bless Your Little Heart
5. Charmer And The Snake
6. Brightest Light
7. What A Smile Can Hide
8. Choking
9. Nightmare Daydream
10. Beauty Queens
11. Devil’s Radio
12. Limboland  

DOWNLOAD - High Res Press Photo | DOWNLOAD - Nightmare Daydream Album Art

DOWNLOAD - Charmer And The Snake Art