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LOS ANGELES, CA — Wednesday, January 15, 2025 — Today, Dirty Honey announces “MAYHEM AND REVELRY LIVE,” the band’s first live-in-concert, double-vinyl CD and digital release, and its companion four-part video documentary, recorded live throughout North America, the UK and Europe on the band’s 2023-24 “Can’t Find the Brakes” World Tour. Set for a February 21, 2025 release (Dirt Records), the album and video capture the band’s explosive energy and camaraderie with its audience and each other, and puts viewers front and center inside the barricade at the band’s sixty concerts. With 16 tracks total, Side One of the vinyl features recordings from the North American concerts, and the Side Two recordings are from the UK and European shows.
Said guitarist John Notto, “We are very proud to present to you this collection of live performances from around the world. Like my favorite live albums I listened to constantly as a kid, I believe this album features the band in its most honest form, feeding off the audience and walking the wire with a grin and a dash of reckless abandon that can only come from that magical place we get to onstage with you, the audience. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed performing it.”
“To me, live albums have always been the quintessential corner stone for any rock band’s catalog,” vocalist Marc LaBelle added. “I grew up on Aerosmith’s ‘A Little South of Sanity,’ AC/DC’s ‘LIVE,’ The Stones’ ‘Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out,’ and Zeppelin’s ‘How the West Was Won.’ There’s something beautiful about a band’s unbridled live energy mixed with an audience’s excitement that breathes new life into songs. The guys in the band and I have long been told ‘your records are awesome, but you’re even better live,’ and I think that sentiment comes across loud and clear on ‘Mayhem & Revelry.’”
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“MAYHEM AND REVELRY LIVE” credits:
Produced by DIRTY HONEY
Recorded by Mike Dalke
Mixed by Chris “The Raven” Albers
Mastered by Mark Chalecki
Art design by Michelle Holme
Management – Mark DiDia // Red Light Management
℗ & © 2025 Dirt Records
DIRTY HONEY IS:
MARC LABELLE – VOCALS
JOHN NOTTO – GUITARS
JUSTIN SMOLIAN – BASS
JAYDON BEAN – DRUMS
Dirty Honey “Can’t Find The Brakes” Media Quotes From Around The World:
“As their sole guitarist, John Notto balances bottom-end depth and dirt with flashy finesse. Marc LaBelle revels in the role of open-shirted, mic stand-wielding frontman, reflecting the band’s many nights spent opening for GN’R in stadiums across the world. It’s not hard to see why they landed that gig. Or why their headline audiences keep growing.” – Polly Glass, Classic Rock, Electric Ballroom, London, England
‘While the main attraction of the evening was the legendary Guns N’ Roses, it was Dirty Honey, the opening act, that proved to be the unexpected highlight. Opening while daylight still lingered, Dirty Honey took control of the stage and quite possibly the entire evening. Their performance was a burning reminder that the spirit of rock and roll is still very much alive. — Jim Gilbert, Daily Gazette, Saratoga Springs, NY
“This band represent the present and the future of rock.” — Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll, Italy
“Dirty Honey, the acclaimed rock sensation, left an indelible mark on Milan, proving once again why they are at the forefront of the contemporary rock scene.”
— Benedetta Baldin, Chaoszine, Finland
“Won’t Take me Alive” is a balls out, kick ass tune that has that early Guns’n’Roses swagger which was stolen from Aerosmith and both bands are sprinkled throughout. You have to face it – John Notto is the new Joe Perry and he shows why he has earned that compliment right here. — Ritchie Birnie, Metal Planet Music UK – 10/19/23
“Ultimately, ‘Can’t Find The Brakes’ stands as their best record to date and should further demonstrate Dirty Honey as among the most promising and most thrilling rock bands of our time. – Arvin Kashyap, The Spill Magazine/Canada – 10/18/23
Justin Smolian (bass), John Notto (guitar), Marc LaBelle (vocals), Jaydon Bean (drums)
Photo credit: Hanane Zahrouni
“ABOUT DIRTY HONEY”
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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