Honey Wild

Honey Wild is a rock 'n roll band from Brooklyn. Named after a favorite Beach Boys record, 1967's Wild Honey, they draw influence from melodic 60s rock, as well as the frenetic Afro-Pop of fellow New Yorkers Dirty Projectors and Vampire Weekend. The band formed in late 2011 through mutual friends at Williamsburg's Blackbird Parlour, where front-man Joe Stevens was working as a line cook and soon met college friends Andy Payne and Steven Laing, ultimately turning the band a foursome with the addition of childhood friend Alex Rainer. Honey Wild balances A.D.D. songwriting with pop sensibility, with songs that often surround city life and bohemia.

This past April they toured the Midwest behind their debut release, Mea Culpa EP, which Peter Ianelli of The Wild Honey Pie wrote "will no doubt have you bobbing your head". Recently Honey Wild performed as part of the POP Montreal festival, as well as New York's CMJ. On November 18th, the band will release a 7" double A-side, Garden / Magnifique Innocent, on Brooklyn's Shorewave Records with a release-show at Mercury Lounge, NY. Joe Sparrow of ANBAD writes, "[the music] immediately elevates itself from good guitar pop to good guitar pop with added curiosities. And all of a sudden, Honey Wild are a band to watch."