Asher White, the New York–through–Windfall singer-songwriter, has signed to Joyful Noise Recordings. To ring within the huge information, she’s shared the brand new tune “Kratom Headache Girls Night,” which showcases her abilities as a musician, arranger, and producer alike. Give it a pay attention under.
Though her new single is about hanging with pals, White shared a press release explaining how the backstory goes deeper: “Just lately there’s a darkish cloud of finish occasions that hangs out with us, after all, and there’s a brand new psychic puzzle of attempting to have enjoyable regardless of this. This tune toys slightly with the membrane between losing-yourself-in-rapturous-experience-of-friend-love and panic-about-the-immediate-future-on-an-urgent-material-level; generally a sense of doom may even facilitate a second of heightened presentness. So there’s some actual Perks of Being a Wallflower–model photos that end result from me discovering I’ve the group of pals and lovers I’d needed my complete childhood.”
In 2024, White launched Home Constellation Study, the fifteenth album of the 25-year-old’s profession. She additionally labored on a collaborative single with Caroline Rose and Eli Winter for Transa, the large profit compilation spearheaded by Pink Sizzling Group to symbolize a “religious journey celebrating trans folks.”
Subsequent month, White will carry out at Liberation Weekend Festival, in Washington, D.C. The trans rights music competition takes place on the Black Cat on Could 30 and Could 31, and all proceeds go to Gender Liberation Movement to assist fund future rallies, demonstrations, and direct actions in protest of anti-trans policymaking. Additionally slated to carry out are Ekko Astral—the competition’s organizers—Ted Leo, Speedy Ortiz, L’Rain, Dwelling Is The place, and lots of extra.