Honeypuppy
TUNE INTO HONEYPUPPY’S DIRTY TV, OUT 4/11 via INDECENT ARTISTRY
Born from the liminal space between the head and pillow of Songwriter Josie Callahan, Athens, Georgia’s Honeypuppy interrupts your regularly scheduled programming with an exciting and fresh one-time TV offer: a sparkly new album delivered April 11th, 2025 for your listening pleasure. Experience the bliss and despair, anxiety and indifference, and present yet absent-minded glee of this episodic saga in Honeypuppy’s glowing new sonic collection, DIRTY TV available everywhere digitally and at your local record store on vinyl via Cloud Recordings and Secretly Distribution. A nostalgic and poppy delight complete with twists, turns, and plenty of surprises, don’t miss a second of DIRTY TV, out on Indecent Artistry April 11th, 2025.
Honeypuppy formed in 2020 as Callahan (lead vocals, guitar) recruited friends and roommates Adam Wayton (bass, vocals), and Will Wise (lead guitar) to help bring her songs to life. The group released Nymphet, their soft and brutal debut EP, in January of 2024 with boutique label services outlet Indecent Artistry.
“There’s something uncanny about Honeypuppy; a tip-of-the-tongue familiarity, like melodies just beyond your recall.” – Charlie Farmer, Record Plug
In the series premiere and lead single off DIRTY TV, Honeypuppy hit the ground running with
“Understatement”, a sun-baked, upbeat pop anthem reminiscent of Guided By Voices and the Modern Lovers. “Understatement” noodles along, exploring the contrast between what’s left unsaid and what goes without saying. In true Honeypuppy fashion, this deceptively simple tune features blooming harmonies, bouncing backbeats, and sincerely scathing sounds sure to remain stuck in onlookers minds.
“To say that it gnaws on me, that it’s got its paws on me, it’s digging its claws in me would greatly be an understatement… Do you know what I mean?” – Callahan, “Understatement”
“Understatement” sees the regular cast of Honeypuppy joined by special guest Neil Golden, formally of Athens pop-royalty The Glands, performing wistful organ hits and swells to close out the latter half of the song. Golden delivers beeps, boops, and tasteful keep lines on other DIRTY TV tracks: DIRTY TV and Plaster. Warm, fuzzy, and sentimentally sweet, second single “DIRTY TV” is a hypnotic modern indie spell with a vintage twist. Featuring sweetly sung lyrics straight out of a 1973 Zenith television manual, a howling steel guitar hook, and a barrage of sounds and samples, “DIRTY TV” will keep you hanging on till the last second.
“Welcome to the Zenith Family TV guide. If you’re reading this, Congratulations on your buy. This system is Hi Fi: An Electronic eye.” – Callahan, “DIRTY TV”
Shot over the course of the night at Athens motel Perimeter Inn (possibly described at one point as charming), the “DIRTY TV” music video sees a wide-eyed Callahan thousand-yard
staring at what else but a television. Chaos ensues as the stone-faced Callahan is entranced by the psychotropic programing (featuring a mirage of alternate reality Honeypuppy performances). Will Callahan ever escape the enchanting grip of the DIRTY TV? Can the band clean up the motel room by check out? How often has a 40 year old in-room lovers’ jacuzzi been cleaned? Find out all of this and more by tuning into “DIRTY TV” here.
In DIRTY TV’s closer, Honeypuppy breathe new life into the cult classic song “I’ve Been
Delayed”, which was featured in the hit online game Club Penguin. Originally recorded by
Canadian band TAS 1000, the song was created using the undeleted voicemails of a thrifted cassette answering machine. “I’ve Been Delayed” would go on to live in infamy after it was featured as “igloo” music in the cultural phenomenon that was Club Penguin. Laced with hypnotic vocals, lively acoustic guitar and nostalgic melodies, Honeypuppy’s take on the song is bouncy and playful while maintaining the original version’s strange charm.
On December 13th, 2024, fans had a unique opportunity to attend a virtual Honeypuppy
concert in Club Penguin Journey (an unofficial tribute site) and see the song “performed”
by Honeypuppy via their penguin avatars. Honeypuppy performed 50 concerts featuring “I’ve Been Delayed” and other DIRTY TV / Nymphet favorites on the online multiplayer game, to audiences of 5000 people throughout the event. Exclusive Honeypuppy in-game merch was available and is still present in Club Penguin including a Honeypuppy player background and a version of “I’ve Been Delayed” that players can have playing and displayed in their igloo. View the concert here and get more info on the in-game feature here.
Honeypuppy celebrated the release of DIRTY TV with a show on April 13th at Hendershot’s in Athens featuring Austin, TX art rock duo Being Dead. Catch Honeypuppy on their East
Coast tour this May (dates on instagram). Grab a copy of DIRTY TV at your local record store, or on Honeypuppy’s Bandcamp and tune into DIRTY TV wherever you stream music.
I’M A DIRTY GIRL, I GOTTA HAVE MY TV ON.
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