Open the internet and join late night drive home at the "american church"

For Immediate Release

May 14, 2025

OPEN THE INTERNET AND JOIN LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME

AT THE “AMERICAN CHURCH” — STREAM | WATCH

THE VISUALIZER

DEBUT ALBUM AS I WATCH MY LIFE ONLINE

OUT JUNE 27 VIA EPITAPH — PRE-SAVE

HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

KICKS OFF THIS JULY IN AUSTIN — SEE ALL DATES HERE

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“...their sound, and goals, are all their own — reinventing indie music for a modern age while increasing representation for Latin artists in the genre.”

“...an extraordinary fusion of different sounds and approaches.”

“Somewhere between The Smashing Pumpkins and The Cribs, US band late night drive home are laying down a marker with a run of excellent singles in the run up to their debut full-length album due in late June.”

Up next from their debut album, as I watch my life online, late night drive home today releases the third single “american church.” At first glance, the new offering is rooted in more tangible addictions than the last two singles. But as organic matter shifts into glitched-out cyberspace, the album’s ongoing throughline of mistaking online connection for something real is masterfully coded in. A metaphor for old habits turning into internet habits, late night drive home calls out the World Wide Web as the modern American church, and congregants can’t help but worship at its flawed altar — Stream.

“The first two songs on the record are really analog, but this one just glitches out on the outro — descending into digital madness,” guitarist Juan “Ockz” Vargas says. “That’s mirrored in the lyrics, which are about seeing someone you love spiral — whether because of the internet or another addiction.”

So far from as I watch my life online, late night drive home has released “terabyte” and "she came for a sweet time.” The former a rumination on an addiction to adult content and the unending cycle of seeking online validation and destroying self-worth. And the latter a case study on the endless, mindless swiping on dating apps that is so intoxicating. The band’s debut album will be released in full on June 27 via Epitaph.

as I watch my life online album artwork [Download]

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.

Tour poster [Download]

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 ALEXSUCKS

All 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 record is a critique and a meta representation of the current online landscape: a whole new world or giant united country that connects us between cities, forcing us to be online. Instant gratification is at our fingertips — likes, follows, and entertainment a click away,” says guitarist Juan “Ockz” Vargas. “It shows the listener how we grew up in the early days of peak internet — how we saw it all unfold. We want to give our perspective on the internet while creating art alongside it.”

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 guitarist Juan “Ockz” Vargas, singer Andre Portillo, drummer Brian Dolan, and bassist Freddy Baca, the entirely self-taught quartet 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 the record is expertly produced — it was the first work we put out that was recorded in professional studios and not our bedrooms,” Vargas says about working with producer Sonny Diperri. “Topically, the album is about the internet. As a Gen-Z band, we want to give an accurate representation of how it feels to be always online. Our generation is forced to care so much about its online identity, it’s like ‘your profile is as important as your outfit.’”

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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