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The Dreaded Laramie Release Femmecore Single “Fishnets” & Announces Co-Headlining Spring Tour With Virginity

The Dreaded Laramie – Fishnets (Official Music Video)

“Fishnets” by The Dreaded Laramie is out now on Smartpunk Records.

“Fishnets” follows the release of “Breakup Songs,” which the band released in 2023.

“As much as I would love for recovery to be straightforward (in breakups, grief, or really any context), it seems unavoidable that it is a non-linear process where you can be fine one day and a wreck the next. We wanted ‘Fishnets’ to reflect that pendulum between emotional stability and totally freaking out. The meter change between the verses and the choruses feels disorienting to me in a way that is authentic to an experience like, I don’t know, getting an out-of-the-blue text from an ex asking to be guest listed for a show.” — MC Cunningham, Vocalist of The Dreaded Laramie
The Dreaded Laramie have been melting faces while making people think since 2019, with their own brand of cock rock-coded femmecore. This Nashville quartet delivers high-energy hooks and first-rate musicality, with trademark guitarmonies that scratch that very specific itch in your brain.

Their new album Princess Feedback is an album filled with riffs made of liquid magma and heavy-hitting rhythm section ferocity. But it’s also a breakup record. It’s a controlled blast — a sonic explosion performed with deliberate precision, clearing the way for what lies beneath. Songs that might sound joyful on first listen are, in time, revealed to be introspective meditations on self-doubt and healing.

On the standout track “Breakup Songs,” guitarist/vocalist MC Cunningham delves into the healing process post-split: “I can’t control the way I heal, feel, or bleed / ‘Cause healing isn’t the lips, it’s the teeth.”

Cunningham explains, “The line about the lips is evoking kissing, something tha’’s fun, it’s sweet, it’s soft, but it isn’t nourishing in any way. And what healing is, you’re actually taking a bite of something, you’re actually giving yourself nourishment, you’re growing as a person. And it’s also like getting bitten a lot of the time. It’s the teeth.”

The album was produced, mixed, and engineered by Grammy winner Dave Schiffman (PUP, The Bronx), who managed to capture the band at its very best, maintaining the live energy that makes them an instant hit with crowds of all sizes. “We did most of the guitar harmony tracking at the same time, which was a highlight of the recording process for me,” says guitarist Zach Anderson. “We had everything set up in the control room, and so many pedals and dozens of guitars laying around, and we were just grabbing them and trying them out. It was so fun to have Dave in the captain’s chair, and getting to play them in real time was a total blast.”

The Dreaded Laramie subvert expectations without being in your face about it, and Princess Feedback is an album crafted firmly in that spirit.

The Dreaded Laramie + Virginity Tour Dates
Tickets and info are available here.

4/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Ideal Sports Bar w/ New Junk City + Big Computer

4/20 – Greenville, SC @ Swanson’s Warehouse w/ Sawyer Norman + Sitris

4/21 – Savannah, GA @ The Sentient Bean w/ Off Work + Crimson Fever

4/22 – Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof w/ Newgrounds Death Rugby + Never Any Ordinary

4/23 – Daytona, FL @ Tir Na Nog w/ Porch Coffin + Orange Blossom Trail 

4/24 – Tampa, FL @ Hooch And Hive w/ Post Sex High + NowInColor*

4/26 – Gainesville, FL @ Loosey’s w/ Mikey Erg! + Off Day + Trust Fall

4/27 – Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub + Lil Indies – Fanarchy Fest w/ Mikey Erg! + Tightwire + Rational Anthem + Vicious Dreams + more!

4/29 – Nashville, TN @ The East Room w/ Arbor & 76th Street*

* = No Virginity
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