Seattle’s Johnny Nails is a lifer. A shredder, studio rat, and road warrior whose fingerprints are all over the city’s rock, jazz, and underground scenes. On Savor The Blood, his new LP out August 20th via Killroom Records, Nails distills a career of chops, chaos, and pure studio instinct into a record that’s equal parts fever dream and love letter to the craft. Tracked mid-pandemic with a no-fuss, first-take energy, it’s a wild ride of psych-shred workouts, gut-punch riffs, and personal vignettes, all delivered with the swagger of a player who knows when to let it rip and when to let it bleed.


A multi-instrumentalist endorsed by Gibson, Johnny Nails (Ryan Leyva) grew up absorbing everything from jazz to punk to pop-radio earworms, cutting his teeth with Michael Shrieve’s Tangletown before building a globe-trotting career backing grunge heroes, Idol pop stars, hip hop legends, and more. He’s been a mentor to Seattle Theater Group for two decades, but Nails’ true sanctuary has always been the studio, a place where mistakes are gold, tape flips backwards, and first takes often are the takes. You can hear that raw spark on Savor The Blood, especially on tracks like “Taking Tea with Crowley,” where the band locked in on take one and never looked back.


The album is a personal one. The opening track samples his daughters’ heartbeats. “Ascensión” pays tribute to his Mexican roots, reworking a family folk song into his first track in Spanish. “Murder” was written in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. Even the lighter moments have teeth: “Blood Rats” is a punky ode to a tampon-thieving dog, while “Scam Likely” was born when engineer Matt Bayles’ phone rang mid-take with that now-famous caller ID. It’s an album that swings from humor to heartbreak, wrapped in riffs that bite and grooves that swagger.

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"A Revolution without dancing is not a Revolution worth having"

Internationally acclaimed electronic musician, and vocalist: AppleCat was raised on the West-Coast of Canada, specializing in Deep Dubstep, Fairytale Bass, Trap, and with various World influences. 

On the dancefloor she weaves a mystic underworld vibe - stating that her intention is " to have us all come out the other side moved in some way - the kind of movement that is far beyond being solely physical."

Grime and poetic grace, with live mashup & reworks, AppleCat blends cinematic sound, with primal bass. This cosmic booty bouncing dubwitch sets bend the perception of "genre" exemplifying her unparalleled "je ne sais quoi.”

AppleCat is a main focus of a feature documentary about women in electronic music. ‘Amplify Her’ was released worldwide in 2017 (http://www.amplifyher.com/).

She was recently featured in DJMag and has performed her act all around the world, including venues/festivals: Burning Man, Rifflandia, Enchanted Forest Gathering, Evolve Festival, Halifax Pop Explosion, and Electric Love Festival. She has shared a stage with Truth, Seven Lions, Zeds Dead, David Starfire, Emancipator, PhuturePrimitive, Bluetech, Clozee, The Polish Ambassador, A Tribe Called Red, Tipper, Govinda, Random Rab, An-Ten-Nae and
many more

What's next for this Sultry Fruity Feline? Stay tuned this is only the beginning.

"Music is a possession that I desire no exorcism from. " - AppleCat

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