ABOUT - Wine & Warpaint

Through anthemic alt rock intertwined with intimate moments of contemplative restraint, Wine & Warpaint navigates an interior world decimated by family loss, faith deconstruction, and depression while maintaining a paradoxical commitment to hope and optimism. Their signature blend of big hooks, punk edge, and wall-of-sound energy led to the band being recognized as winners of the Player Plus Studio Sessions: Powered by Fender, where they were selected by a celebrity panel of music legends and executives as one of the 26 best unsigned bands in the world. A one-man-band in the studio, frontman Brandon O’Neill is joined live by Taylor Bess, Colleen Christman, Hunter Glotz, and Hannah Haupt to bring all of the raw desperation of the recorded material to the stage, offering a diverse and energetic rock show that’s cathartic and engaging whether you’re seeing them for the first time or the fiftieth.

After working with Matt Goldman (Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada, Anberlin) for the first EP, frontman and multi-instrumentalist Brandon O’Neill released a self-produced, pandemic-inspired 10-song cover album as well as the band’s sophomore EP “Half to Life” which continued to explore O’Neill’s ongoing struggles with depression, identity, and nihilism. The new single “Static” finds O’Neill back in the studio with producer Will Beasley (The Dangerous Summer, Turnstile, Asking Alexandria) creating arguably the band’s most cathartic offering yet.

Joined live by Taylor Bess (bass, synth, vocals), Colleen Christman (guitar, vocals), Hunter Glotz (drums), and Hannah Haupt (guitar, keys), Wine & Warpaint brings all of the raw desperation of their recorded material to the stage, offering a diverse and energetic rock show that’s cathartic and engaging whether you’re seeing them for the first time or the fiftieth.

In the studio, Wine & Warpaint is the conception of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Brandon O’Neill. After working with Matt Goldman (Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada, Anberlin) for the first EP, O’Neill released a self-produced, pandemic-inspired 10-song cover album as well as the band’s sophomore EP “Half to Life” which continued to explore his ongoing struggles with depression, identity, and nihilism. As an extension of that extended play, their new single “Static” finds O’Neill back in the studio with producer Will Beasley (The Dangerous Summer, Turnstile, Asking Alexandria) creating arguably the band’s most cathartic offering yet.

On the song’s inception: “Static is a song I wrote about not being able to write. I was in a depressive dry spell, and I sat down with a blank note on my phone and thought, ‘Am I feeling anything right now?’ And the image that came to mind was me probing to find something inside of myself, but it was like a veil of static. Just white noise.” Through that experience, O’Neill came to a life-giving revelation: sometimes even apathy can inspire feeling.