Jax: Easy Honey at Jack Rabbits (August 29, 2026)
Charleston, SC-based indie-rockers Easy Honey have released their rapid-fire five song EP Plaid on the newly-formed Third Brother Records (via Atlantic Records’ 10K Projects). PRESS HERE to listen! Written and recorded over a three-day session at an isolated cabin in snowy Marble, Colorado and mixed by the legendary Tony Hoffer (Beck Phoenix, The Kooks, Air, M83), the tremendous creative power between Easy Honey’s members Selby Austin (vocals, guitar), Darby McGlone (vocals, guitar), Charlie Holt (drums, vocals) and Webster Austin (bass, vocals) is on full display on this EP. FLOOD premiered the collection this AM and called it a “swift, five-song smattering of surf-rock, basement-indie, and some harmonica licks for good measure [that] takes the carefree euphoria of summiting a peak and filters it through the melancholy haze of the Dust Bowl. The result? An atmosphere Easy Honey says feels like ‘dusk in western North Carolina'” – PRESS HERE to check it out.
While the quartet is celebrated for their heartfelt, nostalgic sound, this versatile collection finds them deepening their musical exploration with a more refined and expansive approach; reflecting a creative concept they’ve dubbed “tilting the cone.” It’s a sampler platter of styles that leaves the listener wanting more, tethered together by their classic song structures, instantly memorable hooks and relatable, raucous yet sentimental lyrics about love, wistfulness and life’s big moments.
Opener “Basement Kissing” is a folky indie-rocker laced with harmonica and punctuated by some artful time-signature trickiness. It’s also their attempt to capture the energy of a house show they played in Harrisonburg, Virginia—and anyone who’s ever been to one would probably agree that they’ve succeeded. Meanwhile, the sprightly “Everything I See” (which was part of ESPN’s Music of the Month), driven by Darby’s funky guitar riff, was his attempt at pairing darkness and light. The EP packs tons of lyrical concepts and musical adventure into short blasts of classic songwriting: “Pink Lady,” which Webster says reminds him of an ’80s-era Graham Nash tune, draws on Darby’s story of innocence and heartbreak; Selby describes the more Americana-leaning “Bonfire Burning” as a “retrospective, looking-at-your-childhood-type song.” But even at its folkiest, the track never feels straightforward—a killer chromatic lead guitar line adds a gently woozy atmosphere, and then there’s the Nick Drake-styled closer “Twilight,” which melds some Charleston imagery and touring references and Kerouac nods into a meditative life-on-the-road stunner.
“The cone was the symbol of the last record, how far we went,” says Easy Honey. “We had this idea: What if we just go deeper into different genres and it’ll pull us out of ourselves more but also, in this weird way, cyclically make us more ourselves? That’s what Plaid is about—these songs are all very different, but they all intersect in some way.”
Easy Honey’s catalog is already robust: five EPs, one live record, and three studio albums, including 2024’s critically acclaimed Cupidity Unlimited (check out their Garden & Gun Back Porch Session HERE), and as their live shows have taken off with an organic buzz (reaching another level in 2025 when they opened a run of dates for indie-pop artist Carter Vail), the band has stayed prolific in the studio, refining a sound that echoes their name: sweet but thick, sugary but substantial, harkening back to a more carefree era of rock music.
The band’s Plaid Headline Tour is underway, with new dates just announced, and the full routing can be found below
EASY HONEY UPCOMING SPRING/SUMMER TOUR DATES
April 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge
May 2 – Redondo Beach, CA – Beach Life Festival
May 3 – San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room @ House of Blues
May 5 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
May 7 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hill
May 8 – Seattle, WA – Baby Yaga
May 9 – Boise, ID – Shrine Social Club – Basement
May 11 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge
May 14 – Houston, TX – Bronze Peacock @ House of Blues
May 15 – Austin, TX – 29th Street Ballroom
May 16 – Grand Prairie, TX – The Jambox
May 17 – Grand Prairie, TX – The Jambox
May 28 – Savannah, GA – Hop Atomica
June 20 – Catonsville, MD – Music City Summer Fest
July 3 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
July 25 – Macon, GA – Bragg Jam Concert Crawl
July 30-31 – Appleton, WI – Mile of Music Festival
August 2 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
August 4 – Bethlehem, PA – Musikfest
August 5 – Wellfleet, MA – Beachcomber
August 7 – Hampton Beach, NH – Wally’s
August 9 – Lewes, DE – Anna’s Coastal Kitchen
August 11 – Philadelphia, PA – Nikki Lopez
August 13 – Duck, NC – Swellsa Brewing
August 14 – Wilmington, NC – Bowstring
August 15 – Charleston, SC – The Windjammer
August 27 – Miami, FL – Zey Zey
August 28 – Tampa, FL – New World
August 29 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits
August 30 – Fernandina Beach, FL – Tiger Island Room