Des Rocs announces debut album 'A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place' with official video for new single 'MMC'
Album available September 24 via 300 Entertainment
20+ Date Headline Tour, DES ROCS ALIVE,
to Follow in Iconic Venues and Select Festivals
July 30, 2021 - New York, NY: Today, the NYC-native Des Rocs announces his debut album,
A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place, with the official video for his explosive new single “MMC”. The album will release on September 24, 2021 via 300 Entertainment (Megan Thee Stallion, Young Thug, Highly Suspect), and kicks off his highly-anticipated debut headline tour DES ROCS ALIVE, which begins at Firefly Music Festival alongside 20+ dates at iconic venues - including the Bowery Ballroom in New York, The Troubadour in Los Angeles and many more.
Listen to “MMC” HERE
Watch the Official Video for “MMC” via YouTube HERE
Pre-order A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place HERE
“‘MMC’ is about people who are obsessed with being anything but themselves,” explains Des Rocs. “It's a roller coaster of a record that was written all at once in this kinda chaotic catharsis. My first album is a journey and this first song really represents the odyssey I'm gonna take you on this fall.”
Self-recorded, A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place demonstrates that Des Rocs is in a league of his own. The album is bold and intoxicating, drawing on rock and roll, punk, and electronic music to forge a “bedroom arena rock” sound that’s at once deeply intimate and profoundly expansive. Lead single “MMC” swerves from ferocious to playful and back again as it rails against all things fake and manufactured. The official video showcases a pulse-pounding, genre-bending, performance juxtaposed with a character’s brutal exploration of identity.
“The ‘MMC’ video is all about losing your soul in the quest for fame and sacrificing who you are for what you think others want from you. I wanted to tell this story and show you what a real show feels like, in case ya forgot.”
Kicking off the summer with his DES ROCS ALIVE livestream event, Des immersed fans in an incendiary live performance spectacle with the promise of more to come. His upcoming tour, DES ROCS ALIVE, will hit 20+ iconic venues around the country, ending with a hometown release show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on November 4. Des will also be performing at Firefly Music Festival on September 25 in Dover, DE, featuring Billie Eilish, Tame Impala and Lizzo, and at the sold out Aftershock Festival on October 8 alongside Metallica, Rancid, and more. Find a full list of tour dates below and purchase tickets at DesRocs.com.
The album announcement follows the release of three EPs, which have racked up more than 150 million streams, and shows supporting The Rolling Stones, Muse, Grandson, and many more. The title track to Des Rocs’ most recent EP This Is Our Life, has been streamed 6M+ times and hit Top 20 at Active Rock radio and Top 40 at Alternative radio.
A Real Good Person In A Real Bad Place Tracklist:
1) Tick
2) Why Why Why
3) break break break [the interlude before "Imaginary Friends"]
4) Imaginary Friends
5) MMC
6) Ruby with the Sharpest Lies
7) Don't Hurt Me
8) Hanging by a Thread
9) Born to Lose
10) The Devil Inside
11) Rabbit Hole
Tour Dates:
September 25 - Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival
September 28 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
September 30 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement
October 1 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
October 2 - St. Paul, MI @ Turf Club
October 5 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
October 8 - Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival
October 10 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
October 11 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
October 13 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
October 14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
October 16 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
October 19 - Austin, TX @ Antone’s
October 20 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links
October 21 - Houston, TX @ The Secret Group
October 23 - Nashville, TN @ The End
October 25 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Backroom
October 26 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
October 27 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
November 2 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East (upstairs)
November 3 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
November 4 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Des Rocs:
Website - Facebook - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube
For more information, please contact:
Joe Sivick (joe@missingpiecegroup.com)
Justin Schmidt (justin@missingpiecegroup.com)
Ben Demars (ben@missingpiecegroup.com)
At Missing Piece Group (862) 234-0801
For 300 Entertainment, please contact:
Lily Golightly (lily@threehundred.biz)