4/09/2025

Frankie and the Witch Fingers share new single, KEXP live album out Saturday

FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS

SHARE NEW SINGLE “TOTAL RESET”

WITH OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO


EXCLUSIVE RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE OF

THE BAND’S RAMBUNCTIOUS KEXP LIVE ALBUM

ARRIVES THIS WEEKEND


HEADLINE WORLD TOUR DATES BEGIN NEXT MONTH


NEW ALBUM TRASH CLASSIC DUE JUNE 6, 2025

VIA THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY / GREENWAY RECORDS

Photo Credit: James Duran 


"The quartet has gradually become a heavy hitter

in the underground rock, punk, and psychedelic circles…"

SPIN Magazine


"Frankie will make any fan of punk-influenced psych-rock’s heart skip a beat."

CREEM Magazine


"Frankie and the Witch Fingers walk the line between chameleonic and commanding,

wielding endless inventiveness as a weapon to outsmart artificial intelligence."

Exclaim!


Today, influential Los Angeles psych-punk torchbearers Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared another example of what to expect from their new album Trash Classic (June 6, 2025 // The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records). “Total Reset” arrives with an appropriately grimy lyric video in tow – watch HEREThe new track precedes this weekend’s release of the band’s earthshaking KEXP-presented in-store performance from last year (which goes live on their YouTube channel on April 11, the day before its vinyl release as an official Record Store Day item). Recorded live at the KEXP Gathering Space in Seattle, hosted by the legendary Cheryl Waters, and now immortalized on limited-edition colored splatter “REACTOR BREACH” vinyl for Record Store Day 2025.


"’Total Reset’ is a spasmodic blast of punk and synth freakery, a tech product launch for the post-human era,” the band says. Writing and recording a song can be such a hassle, so we let AI handle it this time (faster, cheaper, zero complaints). It spat out a nice little doomsday ditty: humanity is toast, a lucky few will be spared to reboot civilization. Weirdly enough, the song kind of rips, so maybe we don’t need humans to make things after all.


The band has also announced a robust slate of headline world tour dates, which include some of their biggest shows to date. See below for the full list of shows, with more to be announced soon.


LISTEN TO “TOTAL RESET”

WATCH THE VIDEO

PRE-ORDER TRASH CLASSIC

Live photo from the KEXP Gathering Space (credit: Travis Trautt) 


Trash Classic follows another sort of classic, the band’s widely-acclaimed 2023 masterwork Data DoomFLOOD Magazine had an almost prescient take, noting that Data Doom “feels much more in line with vintage dystopian sci-fi connotations, swapping weed-smoke riffs for frigid new wave pulses.” SPIN Magazine was early on the scene to declare the band has “become a heavy hitter in the underground rock, punk, and psychedelic circles,” and Exclaim! praised the band’s tendency to “walk the line between chameleonic and commanding, wielding endless inventiveness as a weapon to outsmart artificial intelligence.”


In addition to enjoying global press accolades in 2023, the band also played their biggest shows yet (including headline festival appearances), recorded a very special KEXP live session, and reached #3 on Billboard’s Alternative New Albums and #4 on Top New Artist Albums charts.



Hooks so infectious they rot on impact. Trash Classic marks a feral mutation for Frankie and the Witch Fingers—a record that snarls with proto-punk venom, angular melodies, and electronic textures that cough and sputter like dying neon lights under a poisoned sky.


This record pushes the Witch Fingers’ sound to a razor's edge. Wiry and twitching, it bends into synth-punk and fractured new wave, with fragments of industrial grime caked under its nails. Guitars detonate and slice like cinder blocks through glass, while gnashing basslines slither through the sludge, alive and seething. Buzzy synths take the forefront, driving relentless rhythms that crack and pop, drenched in a chemically saturated sheen—part bug-eyed speed-freak pogo, part dance-floor delirium. The vocals cut through like static-laced transmissions—balancing both smirk and sneer—layering playful unease over themes of escapism, decay, and overindulgence.


The songs were born in the grime of Vernon, Los Angeles—a wasteland littered with gutted RVs and rusting machinery, where the air tastes like asphalt and dog food. But the real alchemy happened in Oakland, at Tiny Telephone Studio, where producer Maryam Qudus (La Luz, Spacemoth) helped transmute the tracks into their final forms. Unhinged tones, unconventional recording experiments, and wild sonic detours transformed the songs into something alive and unpredictable.


Every day of recording began with cartoons blaring at full volume—a Looney Tunes ritual that turned the madness of the recording process into something child-like. Late at night, sugar-fueled candy binges kept the energy spiking, pushing the sessions into a fever dream of jittery, spastic playfulness.


The result is a raw, twisted monument to rot and excess—toxic glamour and nihilistic salvation. Trash Classic isn’t just a record; it’s an auditory dumpster bible—a gutter gospel for those ready to dive into its filth.


About Frankie and the Witch Fingers

Los Angeles psych-punk shapeshifters Frankie and the Witch Fingers have spent the last decade mutating their sound into bold, electrifying new forms. Their latest release, Trash Classic (via Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society), plunges into a sewer-slick fusion of proto-punk venom, fractured new wave, and industrial grime. Brimming with wiry synths, angular melodies, and grooves that squirm and bite, it’s all delivered with a sly, playful wink. Fueled by relentless global touring and a fierce DIY ethos, the band has shared stages with OFF!, Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Cheap Trick, and ZZ Top, cementing their place as one of the most unforgettable live acts around. Frankie and the Witch Fingers continue to morph, dragging listeners into whatever warped direction their experimental journey takes next.


FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS

TRASH CLASSIC

Release date: June 6, 2025

(The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records)



Track list:

1. Channel Rot

2. T.V. Baby

3. Dead Silence

4. Fucksake

5. Economy

6. Eggs Laid Brain

7. Out of the Flesh

8. Total Reset

9. Conducting Experiments

10. Gutter Priestess

11. Trash Classic



FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS

ON TOUR 2025


5/16 - Nijmegen, NL - Sonic Whip Festival

5/17 - Diksmuide, BE - 4AD

5/20 - Lyon, FR - Épicerie Moderne

5/21 - Biarritz, FR - Atabal

5/22 - Rouen, FR - Le 106

5/23 - London, UK - Wide Awake Festival

5/25 - Berlin, DE - Desertfest

5/27 - Cherbourg, FR - Le Circuit

5/28 - Brighton, UK - Daltons

5/31 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew

6/01 - Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds

7/15 – Felton Music Hall – Felton, CA °

7/16 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA °

7/19 – The Den – Portland, OR °

7/20 – The Pearl – Vancouver, BC °

7/23 – Shrine Social Club – Boise, ID °

7/24 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT °

7/25 – Mesa Theater – Grand Junction, CO °

7/26 – To Be Announced – Denver, CO

7/27 – Sister Bar – Albuquerque, NM °

7/29 – Hotel Congress – Tucson, AZ °

7/30 – Rebel Lounge – Phoenix, AZ °

7/31 – Swan Diver – Las Vegas, NV °

8/01 – Belly Up – Solana Beach, CA °

8/02 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA °

9/19 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY *

9/20 – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA *

9/21 – Songbyrd – Washington, DC *

9/23 – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC *

9/24 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA *

9/26 – Chelsea’s Live – Baton Rouge, LA *

9/27 – Dan Electros – Houston, TX *

9/28 – To Be Announced – Austin, TX

9/29 – Tulips – Fort Worth, TX *

10/1 – Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL *

10/2 – Turf Club – Minneapolis, MN *

10/3 – X-Ray Arcade – Cudahy, WI *

10/4 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH *

10/5 – Third Man Records – Detroit, MI *

10/7 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON *

10/8 – Foufounes Électriques – Montréal, QC *

10/9 – Oxbow Brewing – Portland, ME *

10/10 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA *

10/11 – Lark Hall – Albany, NY *


° with Iguana Death Cult

* with Population II

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