Some musicians take a while to build an audience and connect with fans. For the Los Angeles quartet Dirty Honey, success came right out of the gate, and hasn’t let up one bit.
To start, the band’s 2019 debut single, “When I’m Gone,” became the first song by an unsigned artist to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. During the Summer of 2019, they supported Slash and Guns N’ Roses and for their first U.S. headline tour, every, single date was sold out.
Dirty Honey’s self-titled debut album – produced by Nick DiDia (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots) and recorded at his Byron Bay, Australia studio – captured the band’s lightning-in-a-bottle dynamics and energy of their live sound. The album hit the streets on April 23, 2021, and made its bow on the Hard Rock Albums Chart at #2. Following the album’s debut, the band headed out on a nine-week tour as main support for The Black Crowes’ “Shake Your Money Maker” U.S. tour, receiving glowing reviews and standing ovations over the course of the tour – not bad for a then, still-breaking, opening act.