Two years to the day after releasing their debut album Southeast of Somewhere, Asheville pop-punk quartet Kerosene Heights are announcing that they’ve signed to SideOneDummy for the next chapter of the band. The news lands ahead of a summer filled with touring, as they plan to hit the road for three separate sets of US dates performing alongside Michael Cera Palin, Dikembe, Equipment, and Swiss Army Wife, the latter of whom Kerosene Heights shared a split EP with back in November.
In the midst of all this excitement, the group has also shared a new single called “Waste My Time” that explicitly addresses life on the road, contrasting the effortless sociability of touring with the isolation of coming home afterward—particularly in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last year. “‘Waste My Time’ is about people drifting apart,” vocalist/guitarist Chance Smith explains. “In my case, it’s about how music can be so consuming that I have trouble maintaining friendships that aren’t directly tied to it. On tour I feel like I have friends, but at home I spend most of my time by myself. ‘Will you waste my time?’ is me begging someone to hang out and do something that my music-sided brain would view as a waste of time.”
Check out the decidedly Midwest-emo tones of “Waste My Time” before the band descends on the Midwest this summer for a string of shows that will certainly not be a waste of your time. Find all upcoming dates here.
