Strawberry Girls
Strawberry Girls is an American rock band from Salinas, California, formed in 2011. The group is made up of guitarist Zac Garren, drummer Ben Rosett, and bassist Ian Jennings. All three are multi-instrumentalists and record producers. The band started after Garren left the post-hardcore group Dance Gavin Dance in February 2010. He met Rosett, and they began writing music as Strawberry Girls. Ian Jennings joined soon after.
The name Strawberry Girls comes from a lyric in the 1980 song Christine by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Their first release was an independent EP called Italian Ghosts, released on October 28, 2011. In 2012 they put out two covers: Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe (June 25) and Kendrick Lamar’s Swimming Pools (Drank) (December 2).
Their debut studio album, French Ghetto, was recorded at Spirit Vision Studios in Carmel, California and released on April 20, 2013, on Bandcamp, with a later re-release by Tragic Hero Records on September 20, 2013. French Ghetto features guests Kurt Travis, Shane Smit, Nic Newsham, Gavin Mulkey, and Kathleen Delano.
In June 2013 they signed with Tragic Hero Records and toured as part of the Into Orbit Tour with Stolas. Garren also contributed guitar to Kurt Travis’s debut album Everything Is Beautiful (2014) and toured with Travis in 2014.
Their second album, American Graffiti, came out on November 27, 2015, through Tragic Hero Records. The track “Simon Vandetta” is named after the top donor to their IndieGogo campaign.
Strawberry Girls toured as an opening act on Dance Gavin Gavin Dance’s 10 Year Anniversary Tour in late 2015, and joined the Super Chon Bros Tour with CHON and Polyphia in 2016. They released a live studio EP, Strawberry Girls on Audiotree Live, on April 18, 2016.
In 2016 they announced a reimagined version of their debut EP Italian Ghosts, re-recorded with new material and guest vocalists. This full-length version was released in February 2017.
On May 31, 2017, Kurt Travis released the single “No Apologies” featuring Strawberry Girls, produced by Ben Rosett. On June 11, 2017, rapper Cee-Won X performed with Strawberry Girls during a Houston show, their first rap collaboration.
The band released Tasmanian Glow in October 2019. On February 7, 2023, they announced the Prussian Gloom Tour with Body Thief, Standards and Tang opening.
Strawberry Girls’ music blends progressive rock, experimental rock, and post-hardcore. Their album American Graffiti was ranked No. 13 on Fecking Bahamas’ Top 50 Math Albums of 2015. They have appeared on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly in 2016 and 2017.
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