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<\/p>\nTaking their name from a series of house concerts in Boone, N.C., in which the band members performed sans<\/i> clothing, The Nude Party draw inspiration from \u201860s garage rock to \u201870s glam to twangy country rock. The band comes up with an original sound in the process. The band is currently\u00a0 on tour in support of their fourth studio album Look Who\u2019s Back<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The band got its start in 2012 when all members were students at Appalachian State University. What they weren\u2019t, admits guitarist-singer Patton Magee, was a group of seasoned musicians. \u201cI had played [guitar] in my bedroom, but I had never sang,\u201d he says. Nearly all of the band members learned how to play only after<\/i> they started the group. \u201cWe pretty much started when we bought instruments off Craigslist in 2013,\u201d Magee says.<\/p>\n
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The Nude Party turned its early limitations into a virtue, though. \u201cWhen you only know how to do one thing, you just do one thing,\u201d Magee observes. For him and his band mates, that one thing was \u201cLoud, then quiet.\u201d That dynamic informed the music on the group\u2019s first record, the Hot Tub<\/i> EP, recorded in Asheville and released in 2016.<\/p>\n
Magee says that Shine Brothers drummer Oakley Munson and his band mates were \u201clike big brothers\u201d to The Nude Party. \u201cThose guys had all been around, and seen different degrees of success,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was mind-blowing to meet guys who had been on tour; for us, that seemed like a far-fetched dream.\u201d Dates opening for Shine Brothers led to Oakley inviting the band to record in his basement studio.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe Oakley liked [the idea of producing] some younger kids who were excited about rock \u2018n\u2019 roll,\u201d Magee says. \u201cHe was happy to take us under his wing for a while.\u201d The studio was in the basement of Munson\u2019s home on Hanover Street in West Asheville, mere yards from I-240 and the Haywood Road exit. \u201c109 Hangover,\u201d quips Magee, laughing at the memory.<\/p>\n
Produced by Munson (later drummer in Atlanta garage-punk band Black Lips), Hot Tub<\/i> introduced The Nude Party\u2019s musical vision to a wider audience. Meanwhile, continued incessant touring raised the band\u2019s profile. The group gained the attention of Nashville-and-Athens-based label New West Records. The label signed the band to a recording contract in 2018, and released a self-titled album that same year.<\/p>\n
Magee notes that over time, the band members sharpened their instrumental skills simply by playing as a band. \u201cI think you learn more playing one month with people than in an entire year by yourself,\u201d he says. \u201cImmersion creates fluency. And we\u2019ve been immersed in doing this full-time, for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2024, The Nude Party released Live at Sam\u2019s Town Point<\/i>, a 2LP set documenting a raucous show \u2013 with plenty of in-between-songs stage banter \u2013 at a popular club in Austin, Texas. The band\u2019s set list that night drew from across their career, with a few numbers reaching all the way back to the Hot Tub<\/i> EP. \u201cI like doing the old songs,\u201d Magee says. \u201cI\u2019m reciting the words when I don\u2019t really remember what I meant. Sometimes it feels like reciting out of a book, figuring it out as I\u2019m singing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The band\u2019s current lineup \u2013 Magee plus guitarist Shaun Couture, drummer Austin Brose, Alexander Castillo on bass, pianist Don Merrill and John \u201cCatish\u201d Delorme on pedal steel \u2013 features six of the original seven members. Asked about what has kept the band together for nearly 15 years, Magee shrugs. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how to do anything else,\u201d he says. \u201cNecessity. Self-preservation. Even if I imagine other industries to go into, it doesn\u2019t seem realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to releasing the live album, the band initiated a very significant change. The Nude Party left New West, continuing as an independent act. Like the live album, their latest studio album Look Who\u2019s Back <\/i>is an independent release as well. \u201cOur lawyer told us: The best way to get out of a contract is to fulfill all terms of it,\u201d Magee says. Magee says that he and his band mates did just that, and then \u201cdid the radical thing. We didn\u2019t ask for a renewal. Gladly, it\u2019s done.\u201d He doesn\u2019t comment further on the subject.<\/p>\n
Look Who\u2019s Back<\/i> serves up the shaggy, good-timing music that earned The Nude Party its dedicated following. Some listeners may detect the influence of bands like the Flying Burrito Brothers and Loaded<\/i>-era Velvet Underground. But Magee emphasizes that his band uses the vibe of those acts \u2013 and others like Mott the Hoople \u2013 only as a basis. \u201cWhen we have song ideas, we might say, \u2018This one should feel like \u2018All the young Dudes,\u2019 or like Neil Young. You find some reference for putting the song together.\u201d<\/p>\n
But as The Nude Party head toward their 15th<\/sup> anniversary, the core musical values that got them started remain at the center of their approach. \u201cWhen you learn how to do two things, you can have not just a loud and quiet part; you can have an A and a B section,\u201d Magee says. He goes on to suggest that too much skill might not be in keeping with the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll aesthetic. \u201cBut when you know three<\/i> things,\u201d he warns, \u201cyou start getting classical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taking their name from a series of house concerts in Boone, N.C., in which the band members performed sans clothing, The Nude Party draw inspiration from \u201860s garage rock to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,49,62],"tags":[5214],"class_list":["post-31360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-interview","category-new-release","category-rawk","tag-the-nude-party","cat-39-id","cat-41-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31363,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions\/31363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}