BLAME MY YOUTH
August 9, 2024 – Alternative act Blame My Youth releases new single and video for “Olé” today! Listen HERE. Watch HERE.
The band also hit Top 10 at Alternative radio with their track, “The Break”. The song has peaked at number 8 after spending 20 weeks on the charts! “The Break” has been featured on CBS and ESPN and has been written about in Alt Press and American Songwriter.
Blame My Youth will be kicking off their headline tour this fall starting September 26 in Louisville, KY and wrapping on October 13 in Sacramento, CA. Previously, Blame My Youth has toured with The Offspring, 311, AWOLNATION, and HARDY. Get tickets HERE.
Blame My Youth recently released “Tokyo Rose” and “Running”. The video for “Tokyo Rose” was shot in Tokyo at 'Top Beat Club', a new club in the thriving city surrounding Japanese Rockabilly, starring Johnny Pandora, who is the Japanese front man of an incredible early '60s-style rock and roll band.
Sean Van Vleet formed Blame My Youth in 2020—a move that was solidified when the band's first single “Right Where You Belong” was selected as the closing credits theme on the GRAMMY-nominated soundtrack of Bill & Ted Face the Music. As if that wasn't impressive enough, follow-up single “Fantastic” picked up millions of streams and found success on the Rock radio charts. While touring throughout the US and UK, supporting artists like HARDY, The Offspring, 311, and AWOLNATION, the band saw their next single “Prizefighter” rise at US Alternative radio. It's an incredible start that demonstrates just how well Van Vleet's songs connect with people. That all came after a prolonged period when, following the demise of his previous band Empires, Van Vleet was writing a lot for other artists (All Time Low, Oliver Tree, PVRIS)—as well as over 200 songs in TV shows, high profile ad campaigns and video games—but rarely for himself. That changed when he began working closely with Billboard Top 100 Producer of 2023 (and Big Loud Rock co-founder) Joey Moi. Whereas before their working relationship was divided strictly between songwriter (Van Vleet) and producer (Moi), in the studio one day the pair inadvertently began writing together and realized how much they loved the process. The result was “The Break”—the first of a number of songs Van Vleet and Moi have written together. Though infectious and upbeat, it's also much more vulnerable and heart-torn than anything he's ever made before and signifies the start of what Van Vleet considers a brand-new chapter for Blame My Youth. What's more, it's only going to get better and bigger from here.
