About Dirty Honey
2025
Marc LaBelle – vocals
John Notto – guitars
Justin Smolian – bass
Jaydon Bean - drums
Some musicians take a while to build an audience and connect with fans. For the Los Angeles-based quartet Dirty Honey, success came right out of the gate...
In September 2019, Dirty Honey made history as the only unsigned artist in Billboard’s near four decades to go all the way to #1 on the magazine’s Mainstream and Hard Rock Charts with its debut single, “When I’m Gone.” Since that weighty debut, Dirty Honey opened for The Who, Guns N’ Roses, Slash with Alter Bridge, and The Black Crowes (when the band received glowing press reviews and a standing ovation at the majority of the tour’s concerts — unprecedented for a support act), and co-headlined the 2022 "Young Guns Tour" with Mammoth WVH. Dirty Honey’s self-titled album - without being signed to a major label - debuted at #2 on the Current Hard Rock Chart, Rolling Stone featured them as “An Artist You Need To Know,” they were tagged as the “do-not-miss-band” at more than a dozen major North American summer festivals, and played sold-out shows on their first two North American headline tours.
In May 2022 the band released its international EP/LP debut and headed to the U.K. and Europe for their first tour there, playing headline shows, festival slots and support dates with Guns N’ Roses, KISS, and Rival Sons. Both legs of the band’s 2023 UK/European headline tours sold out, with most of the venues having to upscale due to ticket demand.
In April 2023, Dirty Honey - Marc LaBelle/vocals, John Notto/guitar, Justin Smolian/bass, and newest member, Jaydon Bean/drums) - headed to Australia to record the album, Can’t Find The Brakes, with a release date of November 3, 2023. The album’s first single, “Won’t Take Me Alive" - released on July 7, 2023 - is a literal, take-no-prisoners-balls-out rocker, and a Top 10 track at Active Rock Radio. The band's follow-up single, "Coming Home," is a deeply personal, shatter-your-heart-into-a-million-pieces ballad and a song that illustrates what Dirty Honey is capable of.
Dirty Honey launched their 2023-24 North American world tour on October 18, preceded by a handful of U.S. dates supporting Guns N’ Roses, followed by headline shows through to mid-December.
February 21, 2025 will see the band release Mayhem and Revelry, a double-vinyl, CD, and digital album, and four-part companion video documentary.
Dirty Honey continues to take the world by storm.
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