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GIOVANNIE AND THE HIRED GUNS
TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
QUITTER
OUT MARCH 14TH
DROP MUSIC VIDEO FOR LATEST TRACK “QUITTER”
+ ANNOUNCE 2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Giovannie and The Hired Guns announce their fourth full length album, Quitter, in stores and available across music platforms on March 14th, and present the video for the title track, “Quitter.” Building on the success of 2022’s Tejano Punk Boyz—which reached #1 on both Alternative and Active Rock radio in the States with the hit single “Ramon Ayala” and earned them the iHeartRadio Award for Best New Rock/Alternative Band—Giovannie and The Hired Guns’ latest LP sees the band fully embracing the free-spirited energy that defined their early days.
Since their inception in 2015, Giovannie and The Hired Guns have made a blockbuster career out of wildly defying expectations. With a visceral sound that merges alt-metal, Red Dirt country, Latin pop, Americana, and much more, the Stephenville, Texas-based five-piece have ascended from playing local honky-tonks to taking the stage at major festivals and arenas across the country, drawing an ardent crowd ranging from cowboys to metalheads to skate punks.
Last year the band made their UK & European debut supporting American singer and songwriter Koe Wetzel whose music has been described variously as a “blend of rock and country,” to rave response. As they continue their colossal U.S. rise, Giovannie and The Hired Guns now return with their new album Quitter: a body of work that pushes the boundaries with even more intensity, matching its explosive riffs and unforgettable hooks with the band’s most brutally honest songwriting to date.
Produced by Johnny K (Megadeth, Sevendust, Plain White T’s), Quitter marks the fourth full-length from Giovannie and The Hired Guns (frontman Giovannie Yanez, guitarists Carlos Villa and Jerrod Flusche, bassist/tuba player Alex Trejo, and drummer/pianist Milton Toles) and second LP since signing with Warner Music Nashville through a first-of-its-kind partnership with Warner Music Latina.
Recorded at the famed Sonic Ranch (a residential studio near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas), Quitter ultimately supplies the kind of catharsis that can only come from exorcising your demons and bravely moving toward a better future. While the band have always brought a powerful emotionality to their lyrics, the album embodies an unfiltered urgency that has much to do with Yanez’s processing a number of life-altering troubles in real-time.
An album rooted in the band’s fearlessly candid storytelling, Quitter takes its title from its most poignant title track—a thundering but undeniably tender expression of longing and self-doubt. ““Quitter” is about being out on tour all the time and never getting to be at home, and also feeling like you don’t deserve the person who’s back at home waiting for you,” says Yanez.
Throughout Quitter, Giovannie and The Hired Guns reveal their rare ability to channel painful self-reflection into songs with all the raw exuberance of a fist-pumping party anthem. On “Quitter,” Yanez closely details the confusion and loneliness of dealing with addiction (“Something’s really wrong with me/And I don’t wanna talk about my history/Just crush ’em up so we can live happily”), but brilliantly twists the mood at the track’s sing-along-ready and strangely carefree chorus (“I’m not a quitter/But I wish I was”).
“Everything kind of clicked for this album after we wrote ‘Quitter,’” Yanez points out. “Jerrod came up with a riff and I just jumped in and started singing those opening lines: ‘Here we go again/Pass me a Xan.’ It was exactly what I was going through at the time, but I didn’t even mean for it to come out.”
Giovannie and The Hired Guns – Quitter – Tracklist
Cheap Tequila
Quitter
Talk Dirty
Great Escape
Chiquita
Good Day
Pineapple Sunshine
Letcha Down
Over and Over
Land of the Lost
We Never Change
You
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago