Joyce Manor
Amoeba Hollywood - September 25th @ 5:00pm
Joyce Manor returns to Amoeba Hollywood to celebrate their new album, "Million Dollars To Kill Me" (out 9/21 on Epitaph Records), with a live show on Tuesday, September 25th at 5pm!
Purchase your copy of "Million Dollars To Kill Me" on CD or vinyl LP at Amoeba Hollywood beginning September 21st to get guaranteed admission ticket to attend the live show AND a pre-signed band poster.
TO ATTEND:
** Purchase "Million Dollars To Kill Me" in-store only at Amoeba Hollywood starting 9/21. No phone/online orders.
** Limit 2 albums/guaranteed admission tickets/posters per person (if buying for a friend to attend).
** Space is limited for live show/guaranteed admission tickets. While they last.
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On September 21, Joyce Manor will release their fifth full-length effort, "Million Dollars to Kill Me." The album follows 2016’s critically lauded release "Cody."
Produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, "Million Dollars to Kill Me" came to life at Ballou’s own GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. During the recording process, Joyce Manor guitarist/vocalist Barry Johnson, guitarist Chase Knobbe, bassist Matt Ebert, and new drummer Pat Ware slept right upstairs in bunk beds. “Kinda felt like camp,” Johnson notes. Additionally, "Million Dollars to Kill Me" was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Weezer, AFI, Green Day).
While "Cody" focused on growing up, "Million Dollars to Kill Me" looks at what happens next: reckonings with love, money, doubt, confusion, and the hope that persists despite it all. Throughout the album, Joyce Manor augment that tension with their layered guitar work: Knobbe’s uncommon ability to make songs sound sadder and tougher at the same time, Johnson’s flair for mixing minor and major chords to invoke a precise kind of overpowering melancholy.
Co-founded by Johnson and Knobbe in L.A.’s South Bay, Joyce Manor released their self-titled first album in 2011. The band made their Epitaph Records debut with "Never Hungover Again," a 2014 effort that Pitchfork hailed as “their most ambitious and diverse album, as weird as it is instantly enjoyable.”