“I couldn’t be more excited to hit the road. Live music is the biggest reason why we do this,” says Rae, one-half of LA duo rosecoloredworld, alongside Addison (Yes, Addison and Rae, haha.) The band, raised on pop punk of the early aughts, are currently a little more than halfway through their first tour, a month-long trek which has them supporting 15-year alt-rock veterans The Dangerous Summer (whose founder and mainman, AJ Perdomo, grew up literally across the street from me in Ellicott City, MD, home of Snail Mail and the nightclub scene in John Waters’ Female Trouble). The tour’s fourth-to-last date will be at our very own Kung Fu Necktie on Thursday, July 18th. “By that point, we should be very well oiled,” Addison jokes with me during a phone chat with the duo this May.
Shortly prior to our chat, rosecoloredworld released single “cold day in hell” and announced their signing to Velocity Records, which actually took place in a plane at about 30,000 feet. “Addison is actually afraid of flying and it was his idea. I think it was just like, ‘I’m gonna throw the craziest idea out there!’ And [Velocity Records owner] Dave Shapiro also flies planes!” Rae tells me. “cold day in hell” was the final song that the band wrote for their forthcoming debut EP (which they hope to drop in the fall), which was produced by Tom Denney, founding member and former lead guitarist of A Day To Remember, who’s also known for his production work with the likes of We Are Defiance, For the Fallen Dreams, and Secrets.
“A Day To Remember was one of my first hardcore shows when I was 15!” Rae tells me of the former band of their producer, who they’ve been working with remotely for about a year now. However, Addison explains that when they first connected, they didn’t have a whole release planned: “We sent him the first song and it sounded amazing, so it was like, ‘Let’s give him another!’ and then it was like, ‘Is this gonna be an EP or something?’” Although, he admits that this collaboration was something new for rosecoloredworld: “Prior to that point, except for ‘Spit Me Out,’ we’d self-produced everything.” He tells me that Denney has managed to give the band a more polished sound, while not detracting from their intended aesthetic. “He understands what we’re doing and takes us to that space,” explains Rae.
rosecoloredworld began about five years ago under quite charming circumstances. “I got asked to sing at a birthday party years ago in my friend’s backyard and I asked Addison to join me, because we were making music together at the time, but then when we did it, my friends at the party were like, ‘What are you guys called?’” Rae tells me, before Addison explains the name’s actual origins: “We were both solo artists at the time… We were both wearing the John Lennon rose-colored glasses, which I always wear… But I’m notorious for coming up with awful band names, so at least I got one good one in there [laughs].”
Although rosecoloredworld are in the middle of their first actual tour and preparing to release their debut EP, they have already had a handful of recent milestones, including playing Set It Off’s Why Worry Fest, this year’s Kill Iconic Fest, and a recent opening set for Sum 41. When I ask the band about their personal highlights of these five years, Rae quickly replies, “For me, playing with Sum 41 in January was just bucket list! Iconic! A sold-out show in San Diego, and not only being there, but playing it was so amazing.”
Addison tells me that, in addition to just having the privilege to be making music that the two of them love, getting to do this full tour alongside a band that they both look up to is a major milestone, before Rae recounts her first encounter with The Dangerous Summer, who have since become friends of the duo: “I saw them at The Roxy a couple years ago and I was literally the girl asking the person next to them, ‘What was that song?’ for every single song [laughs].”
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