Wife Patrol Premieres "Your Mother" Music Video

On Friday, October 2, 2020, Wife Patrol released the fourth single and video from their debut album Too Prickly For This World. “Your Mother” premiered with a spooky video narrative arranged by photographer/videoographer Clay Lomneth using public domain video footage. The video was also featured as “Video Of The Day” on the music blog Loud Women. The song is also available to purchase or download.

Festival Lingua Franca Interviews Wife Patrol

Wife Patrol sat down with Daniel G. Wilson, musician and founder of Festival Lingua Franca, a music festival dedicated to showcasing loud rock and underground bands with BBI&POC members in Toronto, Canada. The band talked about the upcoming album, Too Prickly For This World, how it deals with racism and sexism both on and off stage, and lots of references to Canadian TV shows and music.

Note: This interview was recorded during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which is why the band appears in masks for each other’s safety.

On this episode of the interview series Daniel talks with Indianapolis based alt-rock band Wife Patrol. Check out wife patrol at:

"Valentine Citrus" Debuts with Lyric Video

Wife Patrol is proud to release the second single from its upcoming debut LP Too Prickly For This World. “Valentine Citrus” is out now with its accompanying lyric video and will be available early to those who pre-order the album on Bandcamp.

Live Stream: Wife Patrol on PUNK BLACK

On Saturday, July 18, 2020 PUNK BLACK hosted a night of performances on their Facebook Live. The live stream featured five bands from across the U.S., including Wife Patrol, Nelsen Pi, Blaqrock, Trash Heap, and LIFEFIRE9. Check out the Wife Patrol set below, the band’s first live stream and first show in six months.

Wife Patrol Announces Debut Album Pre-Order, Releases First Single - Let's Hang Out

We’re proud to announce announces the release of our debut LP, Too Prickly For This World, on Sept. 4, 2020. The album is now available for pre-order on 12” vinyl LP, CD, and digital format on Bandcamp.

The album’s first single, “Let’s Hang Out” – and its accompanying lyric video – premiere July 3, 2020.

Too Prickly For This World

Wife Patrol recorded and mixed the 11-track album with their producer P. David Hazel (The Lemonheads, Extra Blue Kind, Bullet Points) throughout 2019. With touchstones in punk, pop, and metal – and vocal harmonies throughout – the record explores everything from power structures, toxic culture, and friendship, to the hellish winter weather phenomena of the Great Plains.

New Song + Process Video: "How To Lose"

On Friday, May 8, the Arts Council of Indianapolis premiered our new song, "How To Lose,” along with an accompanying video that documents our remote-recording process.

Recording remotely, using only the resources available to us in our homes, is a process that’s new to us, so we wanted to share how things came together.

Here are six tools we used to help us through the process:

DIY Vocal Booth

I made a makeshift vocal booth out of bed comforters and pillows to help isolate the sound for the recordings.
– Nicole

Metronome 

While a metronome may seem like an obvious tool for recording, we don’t always use one, preferring instead to record our rhythm tracks (bass, rhythm guitar, drums) all together in one room, live, with no click. Then we’ll overdub vocals, guitar, keys, ukulele, sax, aux percussion, etc. What we like about this approach is how it results in a feel that mimics our live shows, with the energy and the natural locking in we do together as a band.

For this recording, however, a metronome was a vital tool that kept us together as we recorded each individual track from afar.
– Natasha

Spire Studio Mobile App

I have zero studio gear in my home so when this project came along, I started thinking about what I could use at my disposal and/or upgrade. I'd heard of a portable recording device called the Spire Studio, but it was not budget-friendly. However, I realized it had a free mobile app that could be used without the device to record on your phone. It had features that allowed me to set mic levels, record multi-track, and even a few mixing options so it seemed perfect for me. I used the Spire app to record my vocals and bass on my phone, then sent the files to Greg for final mixing.
– Nicole

 “Modern Recording Techniques, 7th Edition” by David Miles Huber and Robert E. Runstein

Purchased at good old Half-Price Books about a year ago. Most of it goes WAY over my head and refers to gear none of us will ever own (A $10,000 microphone? Does it come with Celine Dion? Get real!), but what little of this manual DOES make sense definitely came in handy.
– Greg

Cell Phone As Room Mic

Also coming in handy is a good trick we learned last year while recording with David Hazel (Bullet Points, Beta Male, Extra Blue Kind) for our upcoming album, i.e., putting a mic in the unfinished half of our basement while recording drums in the other half. That's where the scuzzy drum sound came from (using a cell phone to record since we were out of mic inputs).
– Greg

HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

When I went to edit together all of our video clips, I noticed that some of the footage was drifting out of sync from the audio track. Upon further research, I realized this was happening because of the way mobile devices capture video – with variable, rather than constant, framerates. 

The fix was quick and simple. Using the free, open-source tool HandBrake, I pulled in the footage that was giving me trouble, selected the “Constant Framerate” option, and then exported the new clips, ready to be cut together in Premiere Pro.
– Natasha