White Denim (band)

White Denim
White Denim performing in Chicago while on the Stiff tour, 2016
Background information
Origin	Austin, Texas, United States
Genres	Indie rock, garage rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, southern rock, experimental rock
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Downtown Records (US) MapleMusic Recordings (Canada) Full Time Hobby (EU) RCRD LBL
Associated acts	Bop English Parque Touch Peach Train Leon Bridges
Website	Official website
Members	James Petralli Steve Terebecki Jordan Richardson Mike St. Clair
Past members	Austin Jenkins Joshua Block

White Denim is an American four-piece rock band from Austin, Texas, United States. Their music is influenced by dub, psychedelic rock, blues, punk rock, progressive rock, soul, jazz, experimental rock with home-based recording, jamming approach, intense looping work and unusual song structures.

In March 2005, two bands, Parque Touch (Josh Block, James Petralli, Lucas Anderson) and Peach Train (Steve Terebecki), played a show together at Beerland in Austin, Texas. After the show Steve was asked to play bass for Parque Touch and the band became four, playing under the pseudonyms Byshop Massive (Lucas), Bop English (James), Nicholas Mallard (Josh), and Terry Beckins (Steve); however, in February 2006, Lucas moved to Russia and the resulting power trio changed its name to White Denim. The new line-up began playing the local Austin circuit while recording punk-infused, psychedelic blues-rock in Block's 1940s Spartan trailer.

In 2007, the band self-released its first EP entitled Let's Talk About It on 7" only, but later these tracks became available on iTunes. While on tour in 2007, the band recorded a nine-song "tour EP" entitled Workout Holiday, which was only sold at shows. Workout Holiday caught the ear of new netlabel RCRD LBL, and the band signed on to re-record three of the songs. These songs were exclusively released as the RCRD LBL EP, one MP3 track at a time over the course of the first few months of 2008.