Spinnerette

Despite achieving commercial success with their punky but slick third album, Coral Fang, <a href="spotify:artist:7MlyHuGRHi31yYlrttDqgT">the Distillers</a> disbanded in early 2005, leaving singer <a href="spotify:artist:2mGlvfts36oW5O7KKPzfLk">Brody Dalle</a> to ponder her future as a musician. She set down the bass and took a break from music altogether for a while to give birth to her daughter with husband <a href="spotify:artist:03xb2BUdIFzuRQ6o88yfCB">Josh Homme</a>. Returning to the studio inspired, she started laying down home-recorded tracks with <a href="spotify:artist:4pejUc4iciQfgdX6OKulQn">Queens of the Stone Age</a> associate <a href="spotify:artist:57vhIhkzqXdrZnLoD0yl9C">Alain Johannes</a>, and began making plans to do a project with broader pop influences, taking from childhood favorites <a href="spotify:artist:3JxCEqL9zjKnDJgUhRuRJD">Neneh Cherry</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2UZMlIwnkgAEDBsw1Rejkn">Tom Petty</a>, as well as contemporary electronic groups. As time progressed, her love of harder rock clouded her original vision and live musicians were added to the mix. Best friend and former <a href="spotify:artist:7MlyHuGRHi31yYlrttDqgT">Distillers</a> guitarist Tony Bevilacqua was brought in as a co-writer, along with onetime <a href="spotify:artist:75U40yZLLPglFgXbDVnmVs">Mars Volta</a> drummer Jon Theodore and <a href="spotify:artist:0L8ExT028jH3ddEcZwqJJ5">Red Hot Chili Pepper</a> <a href="spotify:artist:6q06p4F3Kh9N8IztbE7ibk">Jack Irons</a>. One of the songs recorded in their sessions was "Valium Knights," which was released to the Spinnerette website soon after, followed by a digital EP titled Ghetto Love that became available for download in December of 2008. After signing to Warner Bros. imprint Sire Records, a press tour was arranged to promote <a href="spotify:artist:2mGlvfts36oW5O7KKPzfLk">Dalle</a>'s new project, but with difficulties locking down a permanent touring band due to the members' professional obligations, there were only a few select live performances during this time. A new group was formed to play live shows, comprised of bassist Nicole Fiorentino of <a href="spotify:artist:7vR0RXBO0sFhHLHqjEFo6s">Radio Vago</a>, guitarist Brian Tulao, Dave Hidalgo, Jr. of <a href="spotify:artist:3WPKDlucMsXH6FC1XaclZC">Suicidal Tendencies</a>, and guitarists Brian Tulao and Matt Caughthran of <a href="spotify:artist:7nqSDaZKccpnUqjzedyZF4">the Bronx</a>. Soon, though, <a href="spotify:artist:2mGlvfts36oW5O7KKPzfLk">Dalle</a> made the choice to move Spinnerette from Sire, signing instead to <a href="spotify:artist:2Hkut4rAAyrQxRdof7FVJq">Rush</a>'s label, Anthem Records, and the group's self-titled full-length, which had been slated for release in February of 2009, arrived that summer instead. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi