This Halloween, we’re celebrating a little different musically. Texas “Grunge Rock Boy Band”, Life After Youth, has just released their long awaited Grunge Pop Vol. 1 mixtape featuring their most popular track, ‘beetlejuicebeetlejuicebeetlejuice.’ To sweeten the deal, they’ve also released their video for ‘RIP Youth’ premiering right here on Banded. Check it out above…
LIFE AFTER YOUTH
The original “grunge rock boy band”, Life After Youth formed in Austin, Texas in early 2017 with Luke Johnson, Alex Fort, and Luke Smith and released their debut single “Drag You Down” at the beginning of 2018.
Life After Youth seamlessly blend grunge rock and pop to create their own unique sound. Their live performances are full of high energy and an aggressive stage presence, silhouetted against a backdrop of pop songs. A hole exists in popular music where guitars, drums, and humanity used to live; this is the space in which Life After Youth thrives.
So what IS Grunge Pop exactly? It’s a concept Life After Youth created years ago as a tongue-in-cheek reference to what the the band would be sonically. “It’s the idea that grunge instrumentation and energy could be channeled into what are classically “pop” song structures, offering a fresh take on the music we loved as kids…..it’s a mixtape we made for the versions of ourselves we lost as we got older.”
Technically the first track on the mixtape, ‘RIP Youth’ kicks things off with a heavy dose of grunge and energy. “RIP YOUTH is a song which embraces the sobering fact that we’re all dying, all of the time. I was born to die, and so were you. This song is meant to inspire a sense of urgency, knowing that we’re all always getting closer to the end. Adults are dead kids, “RIP YOUTH”.”
Give the full mixtape a listen below + on all streaming platforms.