late night drive home Announce UK & EU Headline Tour For November 2025

late night drive home

Announce UK & EU Headline Tour

For November 2025

On-Sale August 29th at 10am BST

HERE

Debut Album as i watch my life online

OUT NOW via Epitaph

Today, El Paso trio late night drive home announce a UK & EU headline tour, following the release of their buoyant yet ominous debut album as I watch my life online, out now via Epitaph. Fans will be able to get a taste of their stellar live show at Reading & Leeds Festival this weekend, before they head on the seven-date run in November. The band will play venues including the likes of Glasgow’s King Tut’s and London’s The Lower Third. Tickets for the tour go on general sale on Friday 29 August at 10am BST – HERE.

Of their anticipation for coming back to the UK, firstly for Reading and Leeds, the band say: “Were so excited to play in the UK again and share the stage with so many talented performers. We’ll be playing some of our new songs off as I watch my life online and can’t wait to display our love for music to everyone!”

The band has never known a world without the internet — without access to the endless stream of joy, sorrow, and titillation that we all tune in and tune out to on the daily. In many ways, they can’t extricate themselves from that reality, but they’re trying to grapple with it — Stream the album. They shared, “The record is a collection of different meta perspectives of our lives online. Sometimes you’re an observer from in front of the screen, sometimes you’re the one looking at people from the inside out.”

Blending glitchy, chaotic instrumentation with striking indie-electroclash sonics, the record is a deep dive into themes spanning instant gratification, control of the masses, porn addiction and how the internet symbolises the American Church. The result is a sensory overload, a deliberate maximalism that mirrors the feeling of doom-scrolling through your feed. Think OK Computer for the TikTok generation.

late night drive home was born in El Paso, Texas, and Chaparral, New Mexico, hardworking communities where the collars were mostly blue — a quality that the band would bring to their music as self-taught craftsmen. It started out as a modest collaboration between vocalist Andre Portillo and his high school friend/former band member, guitarist Juan “Ockz” Vargas, with the later addition of drummer Brian Dolan and Vargas’ cousin, bassist Freddy Baca. With the explosion of their single “Stress Relief” bringing in tens of millions of streams, the band found themselves signed to Epitaph in 2023 and playing stages their indie idols previously shredded: Coachella, Shaky Knees, Austin City Limits and Kilby Block Party.

Over the last few years, the band has been dreaming up as I watch my life online. “Sonically and stylistically, the record as a whole is a testament to our growth as a band. As our first record produced professionally, with the help of Sonny Diperri, staying true to our roots while exploring elements of our favorite genres was definitely a one of a kind experience,” they share. “As a band that grew up on the internet, we feel the need to share our perspectives of how the internet has shaped our lives.”

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UK Live Dates

22nd August – Leeds Festival

24th August – Reading Festival

9th November – Bristol, Strange Brew

10th November – Glasgow, King Tut’s

11th November – Manchester, The Deaf Institute

13TH November – London, The Lower Third