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Brooklyn power pop band Onesie release new single "Gift of Gab"

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Brooklyn power pop band Onesie have delivered their new single “Gift of Gab.”

The track was recorded during the recording sessions of Onesie’s last studio album Liminal Hiss but didn’t make it on the record. The tune features a slew of pop culture references, including Taco Bell and Saturday Night Live. Vocalist Ben Haberland said this about the song, which is out on digital services right now:

“I love wacky juxtaposition and specific references, but I found myself second guessing duct taping together all these disparate entities…Instagram, Saturday Night Live, Madison Square Garden, Kentucky Fried Chicken and especially Taco Bell - in both full name and acronym form. Was it too goofy? Flash forward a few months ago, I found myself re obsessed with Supertramp's Breakfast In America. On "Gone Hollywood", a lyric sprang forth that had escaped me all these years: I'm in this dumb motel near the Taco Bell. Without a hope in hell. I can't believe that I'm still around. Then, a week later, a neighbor asked us to sit their cats named "Taco" and "Bell". The signs were accruing. The band unearthed it at practice and it sounded so vicious and fresh - very different from the rest of our usual set fodder. It was reborn.”

In the following months, Onesie will have a string of performances in the Northeast. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now.

Onesie tour dates

September 7: Summer Saturdays at 18th Ward, Brooklyn, NY
September 22: Sleepwalk, Brooklyn, NY
September 26: Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT
September 27: News Cafe, Providence, RI
September 28: The Raven, Worcester, MA
October 25: Our Wicked Lady, Brooklyn, NY
November 14: The Broadway, Brooklyn, NY