lovelytheband are a Los Angeles based alternative rock band. Their debut single “broken” made billboard history as the longest charting alternative rock song in history (charting for 76 weeks and reaching number 1 on multiple charts). The song has recently been certified triple platinum. Aug. 3rd 2018 saw the band release their debut album “finding it hard to smile” which is about to be RIAA certification gold. The album sales fueled by the success of singles “these are my friends” “maybe, i’m afraid” and the aforementioned “broken.”

lovely have been nominated for multiple awards, including Billboard, Teen Choice, Radio Disney, and were the winners of iHeart Radio’s 2019 Best New Rock/Alternative Act. Later that year the band co-headlined the NYE NYC ball drop with Bebe Rexha and Christina Aguilera as well as appeared as mentors and performed on American Idol. They have cultivated a global fanbase through non-stop touring. Headlining multiple North American tours as well as European tours supporting supporting 5 Seconds of Summer and LANY. 

lovely released their sophomore album Aug. 8th 2020 despite being unable to tour until the end of 2021. The album featured the alt radio top 10 single “loneliness for love” and “buzz cut”. 

In September of 2021 a Selena Gomez executive produced film directed by David Henrie titled “This Is The Year” was released in theaters. The movie follows a group of teens on a road trip to a festival headlined by their favorite group, lovelytheband! A slew of lovely songs are played throughout the film culminating with an emotionally epic onscreen performance from the band. 

2022 has seen the band start their own label, happy accident. The label’s first release “sail away” dropped June 24th 2022. The  song has been well received, streaming over a million a week and reaching #3 on the Billboard Alternative Rock Radio Chart , #14 Canadian Alt Radio Chart, and #22 on the Spotify Global Rock Streaming Chart. lovely’s third full length album “if we’re being honest” was released June 2nd 2023 via the aforementioned happy accident, followed by a US headline summer tour.

With a career spanning over a decade, prolific singer and songwriter MOD SUN has worked with some of the biggest names in music including Machine Gun Kelly,Travis Barker, blackbear, Avril Lavigne, Gashi, Nipsey Hussle, Steve Aoki, Rich The Kid and Schoolboy Q. MOD SUN, which stands for “movement on dreams, stand under none,” started out as a drummer for two popular punk rock bands, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Four Letter Lie. After several years of national and overseas touring, he decided to step out from behind the drums to pursue a solo career. With the release of 5 albums, 3 EPs, 6 mixtapes, and more than 100 songs, MOD has amassed global recognition and widespread industry respect including GQ Italia calling him “one of the most revolutionary and original artists in the American record scene.” In 2021, he released his 4th studio album Internet Killed The Rockstar to critical acclaim. To date, the album has more than half a billion streams and features his hit song “Flames."

To know the vulnerable and candid songs ofhonestavis to know Av Freeman: a determined, kindred soul who, in the face of unimaginable odds and loss, found himself a breakout hit ( 2024’s “I’d Rather Overdose”) and a ticket out of rural Missouri. Growing up the youngest offour brothers and a sister, he caught the music bug early: “They all wanted to be rockstars,” Av says.“I was a little kid going and watching my sixteen-year-old brother play screamo shows in bowling alleys and pizza joints. I was hooked. I wanted it bad.

He split his time between his parents, spending half the month with his mother and half with his dad.“My mom was the worst tweaker ever,” he explains.“She lived in the hood and got arrested multiple times selling meth.” Life with his father was relatively stable, but still not comfortable. “There was no A.C.and no food,” Av says,“but I was going to school and playing sports. Half the month, I was the quarterback, and the other half, I was running around with no socks, smoking cigarettes with the worst kids.”

From the start, Av’s music was a response to tragedy; at age fifteen, Av found his brother dead from suicide. Amid this grief, Av adopted a tough-guy rap persona. He recorded music obsessively, releasing a song a week for over a hundred weeks in a row.“ Literally for two years,” he says. “Sometimes I’d drop even more. I’d record four songs in a night and post two of them.”  These years of experimentation reveal themselvesin Av’s blend of folk and hip-hop, which sees scratchy verses layered over sensitive acoustic guitars.

After graduating high school,Av paid his bills selling weed. “I thought that’s how I was going to live,” he says.“I’d just be a dude that sells weed. I didn’t even think about the rockstar thing.” Then he got hired as a mover. He held that job for four years. “It was a grind, and I stayed up inthe studio every night,” he remembers.“I’d go to work at 6:30 AM after being up until 4AM recording music. It was draining.”

When Av started making jokes on TikTok, he believed he had finally found his way out. The social media platform paid for views, and his videos reached millions and millions of viewers. “At first I thought, ‘I’m about to get rich.’ I quit my job and shit. But I started spending all my money on studio time. I made enough to afford an apartment, but I was living out of my truck.”

But in January of 2024, tragedy struck again. Av’s father committed suicide. On the truckride home, Av, through tears, wrote a new song documenting his emotions. Rushing to the studio, Av cut the track and uploaded it as had become routine. Almost overnight,“I’d Rather Overdose” exploded, cracking multiple Billboard charts and amassing over 70 million streams globally. “When my dad died, music turned into therapy for me,” Av says.“I’m not making songs to be cool anymore—this is what I gotta do to get through the day. I’m lucky that people hear it.” Now, following a bidding war between every major label, Av is on track to purchase his first home.

His newest music is rugged and open. honestav belts rhymes about partying and drug addiction, self-loathing and suicide, stifling emotions and trying to open up. “When my brother killed himself, I turned into a punk ass sixteen-year-old,” he says. “When my dad did it, it hit different. It took a different spin. I’m a grown ass man now. If I wasn’t making these songs, I don’t think I’d be alive.”

Still, Avis shocked that this intimacy and introspection connected with such a wide audience.“It  seems like people actually started to relate more when I stopped making music for everyone else,” he says. “That’s when they really started listening.”


As his music gains traction, Av has encountered pressures to capitalize on the moment. Industry executives (and even other artists) have encouraged him to lean into familiar tropes of country music. But as honestav, Av has a strong sense of who he is and where he comes from. “I grew up in the country, but I wasn’t farming,” he clarifies.“I’m from that, but I’m not that. My homies were farming, but I was riding dirt bikes and busting out windows.” With the success he’s found trusting his instincts, Avi s determined to keep his music close to his heart.