So these guys are an alt-rock group active since 2015 and made up of Sarah McTaggart, Judah McCarthy, Michael Panek, and Jon Garcia. Sarah and Michael connected online, and Michael brought in the others that he knew in school. Eventually they all moved to LA to work together in person after collaborating online. Their name is inspired by a line from a Charles Bukowski poem called When The Violets Roar At The Sun. They got some high praise early on from artists like Katy Perry, who knew Sarah before either of them were famous. Their debut EP came out in 2015, followed by them touring with LANY the next year. They were signed and dropped, then signed again before releasing their third EP in 2018. They had some controversy when they started out with how they sent their demos out, with no information other than "play me." It's kind of ominous and threatening and would not make me want to a) play the tape or b) sign the band when I realized that's what it was. Some people might call it a creative way to beat the system, but in a world where mysterious packages mean a bomb squad there is no place for ominous anything. That's my hot take anyway, let me know what you think.
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