late night drive home Making Waves With Debut Album, Watch “day 2” Video
Bobby Caughron 
Now just a few days away from the release of their debut album as I watch my life online (out this Friday via Epitaph), late night drive home today releases one more single titled “day 2.” A little reprieve from the digital doldrums of living their entire existence in the shadow of the internet, the new offering is upbeat and late-night dance-floor ready. “day 2” chronicles meeting up with a person in real life and spending some time away from your phone. Simple as it may seem, our minds are hardwired differently in the modern age when it comes to looking for love.
Bringing their debut album to the road this summer, the as I watch my life online Tour begins in July in Austin, TX. late night drive home will play in some of the biggest rooms of their young career across 22 dates, culminating in a massive hometown show in El Paso, TX, on August 16. Throughout the dates, the band will be supported by ALEXSUCKS — See all dates here and below.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
July 16 – Austin, TX – Antone’s*
July 18 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger*
July 19 – Houston, TX – Bronze Peacock*
July 20 – Dallas, TX – Cambridge Room*
July 22 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell)*
July 23 – Durham, NC – Motorco*
July 25 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street*
July 26 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom*
July 27 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall*
July 29 – Detroit, MI – El Club*
July 30 – Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium*
August 2 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater*
August 3 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell*
August 5 – Seattle, WA – Neumos*
August 6 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre*
August 8 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst*
August 9 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda*
August 10 – San Diego, CA – Quartyard*
August 12 – Las Vegas, NV – 24 Oxford*
August 13 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom*
August 14 – Albuquerque, NM – Backstage at Revel*
August 16 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace*
*support from ALEXSUCKSAll tour info here
ABOUT LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME
late night drive home have never known a world without internet — without access to the endless stream of joy, sorrow, and titillation that we all tune in and tune out to on the daily. In many ways, the guys can’t extricate themselves from that reality, but they’re trying to grapple with it. The culmination of that, then, is the buoyant yet ominous as I watch my life online, the band’s debut album on Epitaph, out June 27th.
The band shared, “The record is a collection of different meta perspectives of our lives online. Sometimes you’re an observer from in front of the screen, sometimes you’re the one looking at people from the inside out.”
late night drive home was born in El Paso, Texas, and Chaparral, New Mexico, hardworking communities where the collars were mostly blue — a quality that the band would bring to their music as self-taught craftsmen. Comprising singer Andre Portillo, drummer Brian Dolan, and bassist Freddy Baca, the entirely self-taught group released their first EP as a full band, 2021’s Am I sinking or Am I swimming?, and blew up with the single “Stress Relief,” a blast of early-Aughts indie that racked in tens of millions of streams. Their first pull compilation of songs, How Are We Feeling? dropped in 2022, and after signing with Epitaph in 2023 — and releasing 2024’s grunge-inspired EP i’ll remember you for the same feeling you gave me as i slept — they found themselves playing stages their indie idols previously shredded: Coachella, Shaky Knees, Austin City Limits and Kilby Block Party.
Since the end of the pandemic, though, the band has been dreaming up as I watch my life online. “Sonically and stylistically, the record as a whole is a testament to our growth as a band. As our first record produced professionally, with the help of Sonny Diperri, staying true to our roots while exploring elements of our favorite genres was definitely a one of a kind experience,” they share. “As a band that grew up on the internet, we feel the need to share our perspectives of how the internet has shaped our lives.”
The resulting suite of tracks is a series of online vignettes that hammers home the band’s message: the photos on your phone shouldn’t be your identity; your posts aren’t your inner monologue.
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