TRANSVIOLET Release New Track “Love and Power”
Transviolet Release New Track “Love and Power”
On Tour With Mother Mother and Sir Sly This Fall
As Heard On Spotify’s New Music Friday, All New Rock and Apple Music’s New In Alternative Playlists!
“Love and Power” demands your full attention. It’s a rollercoaster ride of emotions…seductive and erotic but also sinister and intense. You can feel your stomach churning with longing and bewilderment. Its fist clenching passion draws you in like a moth to the flame. It’s the most overpowered a song has made me feel in a long time.”- Click Roll Boom
“If your looking for the next great band … Look no further than TRANSVIOLET.”- The Whole Kameese
“Transviolet has a new song that is far too big for you and your mortal earholes. The amount of sonic space occupied by “Love and Power” is only paralleled by its subject matter, as lead vocalist Sarah McTaggart takes the listener on a journey through a toxic relationship involving a skewed power dynamic. The truth is that this track could be in any other language and still be just as moving– McTaggart’s voice is simply that good.”- Up To Hear Music
“Kicking off with layers of soft synths and vocal chops, the track leads into a lush verse with lead vocalist Sarah McTaggart boasting a crooning performance fuelled with swagger and seduction. Feeling like a perfect pairing between fellow Californian rockers The Neighbourhood and East Coast sweetheart Lana Del Rey, ‘Love and Power’ gently drives on, decorated with smooth guitar work and light percussion.”- Reflector Magazine
LA modern indie pop band Transviolet has released a new single titled “Love and Power.”
Stream the track here: https://vyd.co/Loveandpower
Lead vocalist Sarah McTaggart says, “Love and Power is about a toxic relationship with a skewed power dynamic. It’s a retelling of the “Girls Your Age” story without the rose-colored glasses. Several years ago I might have told you Girls Your Age was a love story, but I wouldn’t call it that anymore. I was 16 and he was 24. I needed to retell this story in the most brutally honest way possible for my younger self. Because, there’s still a part of her, of me, that thinks it’s her fault- that she asked for what happened, that she was seductive and precocious, and that this grown man couldn’t have resisted her. In reality, she was alone in the world, scared and manipulated by someone who knew exactly what he was doing. No one talks about the part of grooming where in order to survive the abuse psychologically, the victim often becomes the pursuer. In my mind, he couldn’t cross any lines if I crossed them first. In my mind, I was in control of the situation. I think I needed to believe that in order to survive.”
“Love and Power” follows the recent release of the track “Destroy Destroy Destroy.”
Catch Transviolet on tour with Mother Mother and Sir Sly this fall.
Transviolet On Tour (Fall Dates with Mother Mother and Sir Sly)
Tickets:https://www.bandsintown.com/a/12295590-transviolet
09/29/2022 Revolution Event Center- Boise, ID
09/30/2022 The Complex (Rockwell)- Salt Lake City, UT
10/01/2022 Fillmore Auditorium- Denver, CO
10/03/2022 Uptown Theater- Kansas City, MO
10/04/2022 The Fillmore- Minneapolis, MN
10/06/2022 The Pageant- St. Louis, MO
10/07/2022 Radius- Chicago, IL
10/08/2022 Eagles Ballroom- Milwaukee, WI
10/10/2022 Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center- New York, NY
10/12/2022 House of Blues- Boston, MA
10/13/2022 Roxian Theatre- McKees Rocks, PA
10/14/2022 The Fillmore- Philadelphia, PA
10/15/2022 Buffalo Riverworks- Buffalo, NY
10/17/2022 Glow at Echostage- Washington, DC
10/18/2022 The Ritz- Raleigh, NC
10/19/2022 The Tabernacle- Atlanta, GA
10/21/2022 The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater- Miami Beach, FL
10/22/2022 Jannus Live- St. Petersburg, FL
10/23/2022 House of Blues Orlando- Lake Buena Vista, FL
10/25/2022 Fillmore New Orleans- New Orleans, LA
10/26/2022 Stubbs Waller Creek Ampitheater- Austin, TX
10/28/2022 Bayou Music Center- Houston, TX
10/29/2022 South Side Ballroom- Dallas, TX
10/30/2022 El Rey Theatre- Albuquerque, NM
11/01/2022 Arizona Federal Theatre- Phoenix, AZ
11/02/2022 SOMA- San Diego, CA
11/04/2022 Brooklyn Bowl- Las Vegas, NV
11/05/2022 Hollywood Palladium- Los Angeles, CA
11/06/2022 The Masonic- San Francisco, CA
11/08/2022 McMenamins Crystal Ballroom- Portland, OR
11/09/2022 The Showbox SODO- Seattle, WA
What others have said about Transviolet:
“…pop for the soul…”- Ladygunn
“Transviolet make the kind of perfect electro-pop that melts in your ears.”- The Fader
“Transviolet are impossible to ignore. A pop band through and through, the Los Angeles quartet crafts songs that emanate power and authenticity, expanding the boundaries of a genre that’s mostly made of recycled hits constructed for radio plays and playlist positions.”- *Atwood Magazine*
“Dark and moody pop song that landed them somewhere between XYLO and Lana Del Rey.”- Complex
After a successful catfishing on a musician networking website, Sarah McTaggart began to collaborate with producer and bassist Mike Panek across the world, and over the internet writing the beginnings of what would eventually become Transviolet.
She made the move from the Cayman Islands to Toronto, landing eventually in San Diego where they met for the first time and sparks flew, or at the very least no one was serial killed. Jon Garcia was brought in on drums, and later Judah McCarthy on guitar and keys after moving to LA and signing their first publishing deal.
For two years the band locked themselves in studios across the purgatory that is the San Fernando Valley (which would later be the title of their 2018 release), writing song after song, until piquing the interest of LA Reid and their first major-label partner EPIC Records.
From the very beginning, Transviolet has made a point to approach music differently. Like when they released their first single Girls Your Age, the band sent out 2,000 plain manilla envelopes to kids across the country containing a cassette tape that only said “play me”, not realizing that was pretty near to the exact plot of the horror movie SAW. Blogs and press outlets took notice, but no one cared nearly as much as the mothers across the country when they took to Facebook to demand answers, and threaten the band with legal action. It was hilarious.
24 hours later and Katy Perry Tweeted out the song, a week later Harry Styles. A flood of attention came to the band and they were thrown into the deep end that is the music industry. Writing with collaborators DreamLab (Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj…) Sam Hollander ( Panic At the disco, Fitz and the tantrums) Andrew Dawson (Kanye West, Tyler the Creator) and Nate Motte of 3OH!3, among many others, Transviolet put out two more EPs, seeing critical acclaim from countless press outlets.
Now in 2022 with multiple support (Twenty-one Pilots, LANY, Dua Lipa, Joywave) and headling tours (US, UK) under their collective belt, and tens of millions of streams – Transviolet is feeling as they’re writing the best material of their career thus far.
