“Touch You Back” GARAGE GLAMOUR version!

Hi! The first single from our new album GARAGE GLAMOUR (coming via Pravda Records on June 5) is out! It hits all platforms on Fri. March 27; please go add/play/share it. In the meantime, you can hear “Touch You Back” feat. Ella Feingold (guitar queen who has played with Eyrkah Badu, Queen Latifah, Silksonic/Bruno Mars and many more) via the music video here. Stay tuned for more singles, new videos and showdates!

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW!

Hi! May 2. That’s the date of our album release show in Chicago. All the details are coming, along with album artwork, album release date and a wealth of other show dates. We can’t wait to unleash this untamed beast of an album! Be excited, K? (photo by Rhythmic Lens)

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May we Touch You Back?

JQ (Jeffrey Qaiyum of Q Brothers) and our Johnny Iguana produced this track (yup, right in the midst of also composing/recording the original score for FX Networks / Hulu series The Bear). Rachel Anne Williams, Zachariah James and Michael Jay Caskey positively rule on this hot number. Immense thanks go to Glide Magazine for the kind words and for this exclusive video premiere today. Dorian Weinzimmer directed this–ain’t it funky? Dancey and trippy, too, hold onto your hats and share this with everyone please (The song comes to Spotify, Apple Music and everywhere else FRIDAY)

Here‘s the video premiere. See our show dates and follow everywhere, OK?!

Come Piano Shopping with the Claudettes!

Hello, good people (and SHOO, bad people!) We have been going piano shopping and performing spontaneous “pop-up-style” songs while we’re at it. We started a web series, go ‘n’ see!:
Episode one on YouTube is here.
Episode two premieres at 5 p.m. CT Friday 9/29: Get notified and come chat with us and watch it live or after it premieres here.

We have new videos and songs coming SOON. In the meantime come see us in Chicago, KC, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Omaha, Rockford and/or Oshkosh…we’re playing all those towns from this coming Saturday through late October…show dates here. xo!

Watching “The Bear”? If so, you are hearing Johnny Iguana’s compositions, we’ll have you know!

JQ, my old Them vs. Them partner, and I have written, played and recorded all the new original music for the score of The Bear (FX/Hulu). There’s also a wide-ranging soundtrack, from Nine Inch Nails to Wilco to AC/DC and way, way beyond, but JQ and I created all the new score pieces (seasons one and two). Hopefully this continues in season three…it’s been great fun and I believe our music is the best music on the show (of course I do! We’re good at this).

Prime example: that frenetic, arpeggio pizzicato string thing right at the top of the season two finale? I mostly improvised that piece, then we fine-tuned it…and it became sort of the unofficial season two theme…it’s in three or four episodes. JQ is also co-producing the new Claudettes music with me, coming soon!
–Johnny Iguana

Introducing Rachel Williams

Hello, everybody. After three albums and and EP, spanning six years, Berit Ulseth has moved on to new chapters in life, away from the Claudettes’ van. We love and miss her. As you all know, Berit is simply magnificent. We were unspeakably lucky to hear that voice all those years, in our practice space, on our stages and on our records.

We are also lucky to be able to look at a new future with a Chicago singer who already sang in a different band with our bassist Zach Verdoorn. Rachel Williams will be singing at all our shows and on some near-future recordings…we have been extremely busy in the practice space and will be breaking out TONS of new songs and wide-ranging covers…really, really, really wide…can’t wait for to see you all soon!