15 March, 2021Print
LA’s The Regrettes and NYC’s Stuyedeyed Release Short Films for Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series
Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series features
Filmmakers: Ali Roberto L.A. and Gabriel Gomez NYC
Music artists: Blimes and Gab, Cautious Clay, duendita, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Lauren Ruth Ward, NEZ, Orion Sun, The Regrettes, Rosehardt, Stuyedeyed, Sunflower Bean, Tolliver
PORTLAND, OR (March 15, 2021) Los Angeles-based four-piece band The Regrettes and New York’s Stuyedeyed are the latest artists to unveil short documentary films as a part of the annual Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series, in partnership with COLLiDE Agency. Thanks to the creative vision of LA filmmaker Ali Roberto and NYC-based director Gabriel Gomez, the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Seriesspotlights artists working and aspiring to better their worlds around them in the LA and NYC music scenes.
More on the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series here: https://www.drmartens.com/us/en/dm-presents
LA-based band The Regrettes talk about their newfound appreciation for their home in their film, and share their hope that people will carry the empathy and compassion the pandemic brought into the future. Watch The Regrettes in Episode 11 of the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series here: https://www.drmartens.com/us/en/dm-presents-the-regrettes
NYC’s Stuyedeyed discuss how they hope to shed light on the city’s economic inequality, contemporary civil rights movement, and the ongoing police brutality through their new music. They are premiering a new track “All I Know Is Fear” in the doc. The new song will be digitally exclusive to Bandcamp (https://stuyedeyed.bandcamp.com/album/all-i-know-is-fear) where all proceeds (after costs) will support Young New Yorkers' art-based prison diversion programs. Watch Stuyedeyed in Episode 12 of the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series here: https://www.drmartens.com/us/en/dm-presents-stuyedeyed
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 16, Stuyedeyed will perform a few songs live on the Dr. Martens Instagram at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET as a part of Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series. Be sure to tune in here.
Earlier this year, the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series highlighted R&B and soul artist Orion Sun and LA’s NEZ who each spoke about their community pursuits and optimism. Later the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series will release films from duendita and Frankie & The Witch Fingers. More info on The Regrettes, Stuyedeyedand the Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series below in the meantime.
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Throughout Dr. Martens history, the brand has been adopted and subverted by diverse individuals, musicians, youth cultures and tribes. These are the people who stand out from the crowd and their journey of self-expression has always been accompanied by a pair of DM’s.
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ABOUT THE REGRETTES
How Do You Love?, the sophomore LP from L.A. based band The Regrettes, is an album about the most universal of emotions: love. Throughout the record, 20-year-old frontwoman Lydia Night details the rise and fall of a relationship—from that first rush of butterflies, through a destructive break-up, to ultimately finding peace and closure.
The album arrives on the heels of a few explosive years for The Regrettes. In 2018, the band— currently rounded out by members Genessa Gariano (22, guitar), Brooke Dickson (24, bass) and Drew Thomsen (22, drums)—released their critically acclaimed Attention Seeker EP, as well the passionate standalone anti-Kavanaugh anthem “Poor Boy,” which ELLE deemed “a feminist call to arms.” The group also landed on the covers of LA Times and LA Weekly and earning praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Billboard, USA Today, Variety, and The Guardian.
The group has also graced the stages of CONAN and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, toured extensively across North America and Europe, and garnered widespread acclaim from NPR, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Consequence of Sound, and many more since the 2017 release of their breakthrough debut album, Feel Your Feelings, Fool!
Taking that momentum in stride, The Regrettes are excited to move into their next era. Night, who wrote the vast majority of lyrics on How Do You Love?, came up with the idea after writing a group of songs about her experiences in various real-life relationships. From there, she says, she “realized that they all fit together and tell a story.”
ABOUT STUYEDEYED
Born out of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, Stuyedeyed exists out of necessity. Without representation for perspective, the band documents their own reality in a society that doesn’t serve or protect them; one that prioritizes scene over community. The aim is to cultivate internal liberation in those tied to the mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical shackles that keep us bound to the status quo.
Charged with focused aggression and unrelenting drive, Singer/guitarist Nelson Antonio Hernandez-Espinal, bassist Humberto Genão, guitarist PRECINCTS, drummers Luis Ruelas and Jhonny Nunez are an immense erratic energy from the streets of New York.