Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "New Music Monday w/ THE PRETTY WILD

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Joining

us, The Pretty Wild.

Jill and Julia, the new track is called Sleepwalker Out Now.

We'll feature that here in just a few, but ladies, welcome aboard.

Thank you so much for having us.

Yes.

One of you in Vegas.

One of you in Florida.

Is that right?

Yeah, you're right.

Yes.

With this unique opportunity, what's the backstory?

Julie, I'll start with you.

How did you guys get together and form The Pretty Wild?

Jill's known me her whole life.

I am her sister.

We are siblings, so a lot of people don't know that about us.

But we grew up together playing music, and it was kind of just this infectious thing that just consumed our lives.

And here we are doing it many, many years later, and we're excited to still be putting out really cool music.

That's not the good story.

No, the real part of it, Brian, is that we spent years of grew up in Indiana, lost

her

mom.

cancer, and that was kind of our catalyst to leave Indiana and just kind of pursue a life beyond just, you know, what we were kind of taught to initially believe in.

And music was kind of the outlet, I guess, to tell that story.

And so we've been through a lot together.

You know, we used to play all the casinos up, like up down the street, we'd play.

sets like three-hour sets, some of them back-to-back, three-hour sets.

They were

four.

They were four-hour sets.

I'll have you know.

For years.

And then, you know, made our way up where we started getting some more attention, signed a record deal, left that record deal, went and found ourselves more.

And here we are.

And now it's kind of like, this is a really exciting time because it feels like so many pieces like just from a soul level are coming together and we're excited that everyone's working with that as well.

You had mentioned growing up in Indiana and being in Iowa, a lot of people around the area understand growing up in a small town and wanting to get out.

Julia, for you guys, was it wanting to, after the situation that you guys were dealing with, to get away, to find yourselves or was it more, we just want to explore what's out in the world?

It was a little bit of both.

A little bit was some escapism.

just to explore a new habitat, if you will.

But part of it, too, is that we were exhausting our avenues in which we could perform.

We had performed in every facet you could possibly imagine, from dive bars to county fairs to state fairs.

And after a while, we just wanted to be able to expand our stages and get in front of more people.

And so that was where we decided as teenagers that Vegas was a great idea for just the two of us to go move to.

And that's kind of how that

unfolded.

Now Jill, with Vegas, Vegas has been known at one point as you could pretty much do anything that you wanted.

Now we're seeing more and more artists moving to Vegas.

Is that one of the things that, you know, kind of excites you is that there's a lot of creativity now surrounding where a lot of tourists come to?

Yeah, you know, I think Vegas has always had an allure because it's not just musical artists, but there's, you know, I'm also, I do, I saw alternative acrobatics.

There's also a whole acrobatic community that's awesome because of Cirque du Soleil.

So you get kind of an interesting angle at looking at art from all these different facets and not just like, you know, not just music.

And I think that's kind of like a lot of our inspiration comes from different kinds of artists.

And yeah, Vegas definitely attracts

all kinds of artists.

It's not just one and it's pretty dope to live here.

One of the things I'm seeing, not just with Sleepwalker, which we'll feature here shortly on The Rock 108 Morning Show, but you're also into like you mentioned anime and I see like fires associated in one of your videos coming up.

You guys got to talk to me a little bit about that.

I think part of the journey of like kind of finding yourself and discovering like who your people are, you know, when you have very intense personalities, you quickly realize that we're not quickly, that there's certain people that also have those traits.

And a lot of them, my friends, you know, they do crazy shit.

They fire swords.

They're, you know, real life.

I call them real life video game characters.

And we're kind of this squad.

it's trained together and we all have crazy backstories.

And it does kind of parallel the whole anime thing.

And plus, you know, we're really big into spirituality.

So there's always tones of anime, well, tones of spirituality sprinkled in anime.

And it's kind of sweeping the West right now, which is really cool to see.

But yeah, there's definitely get ready to see a lot of fire in upcoming, lots of things on fire.

Julie, I noticed that with Sleepwalker,

The song was originally written on piano and then translates into what we're going to hear here shortly.

Is that how you guys write?

No, I would say every song is pretty different.

Sometimes it's a lyrical start, other times it's a guitar riff, sometimes it's a more organic, you know, piano feel that then can translate into that, you know, metal realm.

But we're used to writing in just a multitude of different ways and and it's whatever feels the most natural and organic to the song is kind of how it's born.

With Sleepwalker, who does the scream?

We actually both do.

We both do clean vocals and we both do screams.

A lot of times actually the people that have kind of been like ride or die for a long time can differentiate between the two of us screaming but because we are siblings we do have those like blood harmonies and like very similar tones that can kind of you know for a newer listener maybe you can't distinguish it but that's kind of the cool part of when you watch the videos we kind of indicate to you who's doing what and where and

Yeah, so it's kind of a little Easter egg, I guess, if you were to keep listening on and listening to more tracks.

Julia has, like, I'm always interested because fans are starting to pick up on who's screaming.

Julia has a different tone to hers and then mine.

And it just keeps getting more pronounced with the newer track.

So stay tuned for that.

Now we've got this song.

It was introduced to us by a listener.

How has the fan base been for you in helping to push you along to where you're at right now?

Man, I mean the fans are like every the whole reason why this is all happening.

I feel like because I You know for like for metal for the fan base of metal to be the sweetest like It blows my mind, you know what you would not assume that you know, but they're just the most you know community oriented lifting

lifting each other up a lot in the comments, which I think is so dope to see too.

Like they're just, they're the whole reason it's all happening.

And they kind of, they got hooked on the first one.

We had a song before sleepwalker and then sleepwalker just really punched, sent it home.

And yeah, now we have the new ones coming out.

So, but yeah, it's so much to thank for the fan base.

They're the whole world right now.

What's the vision of the band here immediately within the next six months?

We're about to go through a huge transition phase for the band.

Some stuff we can't talk about quite yet, but it should be announced within the next month or so, definitely by the end of the year.

But we're looking to put out a ton of new music, hopefully a full-length album early next year, maybe summer at the latest.

And we're looking to start touring.

That's really what is electrifying to us is being able to go share our music live and not just in the studio.

That's super badass to do that, but we really want to be able to meet people face to face and put on

a really high-energy show that's kind of unparalleled right now to what you see out and about.

Yeah, we kind of want to take like everything that you're seeing behind the scenes wise and like in the videos with all the craziness and just we're going to take that and plant it on the stage.

So you're really creating that show that's going to be something, something, something larger than life.

Yeah.

That's what we want.

We're excited.

You mentioned about spirituality and putting stuff out in the universe.

I believe in a lot of that.

You know, you make it, you manifest it.

Nothing off limits.

What's the ultimate goal for the band?

What do you want to have happen?

Oh, that's a loaded one.

I know, right?

I mean, for me, Julia will have it.

We'll both answer this.

Yeah, go for it.

I just love, I love seeing the kind of responses we'll get from complete strangers that are like,

this is how this song like has transformed just my life and I just want to see more of that like I just think like that to me like makes my whole week there was like a little girl we got um that wrote in her mom wrote in and she was like I couldn't hit any of like she's a softball player and she couldn't hit any of the um balls like all season and then she found the song Sleepwalker and it just kind of like lit her up and now she's like she's her mom sent me a video of her hitting um a homerun and just like

And is this cool to see stuff like that when you're like, oh, that's cool.

That literally changed them.

Seeing more of that just scaled internationally is going to be the goal for, in my opinion.

100%, I love that we are able to touch these.

Because we take so many elements within our social media content and on our live show, we anticipate putting on stage, we touch these different kinds of fringe facets of society that might not feel included.

you know, when it comes to like mainstream norms and things like that.

So I love that we've been able to open up, you know, if you go see like tagged videos that fans actually create, you can see people excelling at different instruments that are a bit more niche, people incorporating like theatrical elements or martial arts.

I don't know, it's really neat to be able to have people that maybe don't think they have a place somewhere being able to find this commonality through music.

And I want to be able to tour globally.

I want to be able to go to these other countries and communicate through the universal language, which is music.

First time that you hear your song sung back to you.

Are you ready for that?

No.

I'll probably freeze.

I still trip out right now when I see people do covers on them.

I'm like, oh

my

god, they know the song.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who used all the Wi-Fi?

Ah, apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station Apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer, internet included, a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station Apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.

Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment

Apartment?