Upcoming Shows:

Sunday, June 3, 2012 - The Palms 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood CA 90069.  "Dark Matinee" $3 Beer Bust FREE SHOW with Turbo Sunshine and Invisible Material.  Doors at 2pm, show starts at 3pm.

Follow Devin Tait and his live band, The Traitors, at facebook.com/devintaitandthetraitors

News

May 16, 2012
We are excited to announce that on Sunday, June 3rd, Devin will be performing with not one, not two, but all three of the bands that he is currently a member of!  Turbo Sunshine, lead by Brandon Strecker, will be making its debut, followed by Devin Tait & the Traitors, and finally Invisible Material.  The Traitors are working on a brand new set of electronic music to premiere at this show so we hope to see you there!

April 17, 2012
Unfortunately, both shows in May have been cancelled by the promoter, as they are no longer working with the venues El Cid or Falcon.  The band may try to schedule another show in May to make up for it.  However, Turbo Sunshine, the project fronted by Brandon Strecker with Devin on keyboard and Dolly Dagger on drums aims to make their live debut in May so the Traitors might take a short break.

April 13, 2012
Devin and the band have been busy with some great shows lately, including the Viper Room on April 10, The Bull Bar in Long Beach on March 30, and Good Hurt in West LA on March 29.  Next up is a free show at Trip in Santa Monica, and Devin has been working with a producer, Taylor Carroll, on a the new song "Quickie" which has been getting quite the reception at the recent live shows!  Can't wait to share it with you all.

March 8, 2012
Welcome the newest Traitor, Liana Hernandez!  Liana made her debut last month at Red Rock Bar on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, singing harmonies and playing a little tambourine!  Brandon Strecker, now on bass, and Myles Matisse on drums complete the lineup now, while Devin has been performing electric piano.  The upcoming gigs will feature some variations on this lineup depending on the venue and availability of the Traitors.  We are very excited to be making debuts at three great new venues in the coming weeks including the amazing and historic El Cid Theatre!  We're also thrilled to be going back to Long Beach again and sharing a fantastic night with our old friends Shitting Glitter and Crush 333!  Meanwhile Devin is continuing to write songs for his next album, one of which, titled "Quickie," will make it's premiere at the Good Hurt on March 29, as will "Why," a song written and sung by Liana.

January 31, 2012
"Tape" is the third single release from Devin Tait off the debut album, "It's Never The Way You Imagine It." The song is available for FREE DOWNLOAD through the Hard Rock Cafe's Hard Rock Rising Battle of the Bands Contest. (Click to download, which counts as a "vote")  The video was filmed over the weekend mainly using an iPhone in Hollywood and West Hollywood.  The single includes two exclusive b-sides. "Strange Season (Turbo Moonshine Mix)" is a hypnotic, electro remix of the album closer, done by Tait's brother, Brandon Strecker, for his own project, Turbo Sunshine. The reworked version is very "Scritti Politti" which Tait enjoys immensely.  "K18" is a track that was originally intended to be included on the album as the final track. The stream-of-conscious lyrics reflect back on Tait's upbringing in rural northwest Kansas, name-checking the state highway which ran less than a mile from Tait's boyhood farmhouse.

January 4, 2012
The first show of 2012 for Devin Tait & The Traitors will be on January 25 at Springbok Bar & Grill, 16153 Victory Blvd. in Van Nuys.  Opening for Devin will be The Ukulady, who also performed with the Traitors back in December, 2010.  Anyone who comes out to the show gets half-off on well drinks or domestic tap beers, and there's no cover charge.

May 2, 2011
The first review of "It's Never The Way You Imagine It" is in!  Frontiers In LA Magazine calls it a "joyful, synthetic soufflé" that's "long on catchy choruses, melodically propulsive and not afraid to whip up a frenzy with guitars."  Click here to read the entire review.

For archived news, lyrics, setlists and more visit itsneverthewayyouimagineit.blogspot.com.

Bio

Having transplanted himself from rural Western Kansas to Los Angeles around the turn of the millennium, Devin Tait found himself quickly derailed from his original plan to join a boyband. Meeting a couple of guitar playing lesbians at various karaoke nights around the San
Fernando Valley led Tait to form the band Shitting Glitter along with Amy Crosby and Von Edwards. The band became an underground sensation in the queer community over the course of the next decade, performing at events from Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, to the Queer Media and Entertainment Conference in New York City, and gay pride festivals from Los Angeles, to Reykavik, Iceland and Winnipeg, Canada. After the band released it’s third full‐length album “Open For Business,” Tait decided it was time to branch out on his own.

Tait had been working on a collection of songs that would end up becoming his debut solo album, It’s Never the Way You Imagine It. Initially premiering some of the songs in an acoustic setting with just a piano and a microphone at The Palms Bar in West Hollywood, Tait quickly formed a band to perform the songs in a manner that sounded more like the fully produced, densely layered versions that would comprise the album. Devin's live band, dubbed The Traitors, include his brother and long‐time collaborator Brandon Glen (also formerly of Shitting Glitter) on bass guitar, vocalist Liana Hernandez, and drummer Myles Matisse.  Dylan Tucker, Xin Xin and Dolly Dagger have performed as Traitors in the past as well.

It’s Never the Way You Imagine It is the culmination of the past few years of Devin Tait’s life, distilled into poppy, relatable choruses with verses that hint at the complexities below the surface. Laying synth over synth, vocal over vocal, Tait has taken the simplicity of his new wave heroes The Human League and combined it with the lush electropop of Goldfrapp and Owl City.

The first single, Alien Nation, is a driving, crunchy number that establishes Tait’s presence as a solo artist while the track’s video provides a more lighthearted look at the Traitors as they get their sci‐fi kitsch on with the art brut of Shawn Segan (of TheStrangerPage.com, who directed the clip).  The single was released on April 12, 2011, in both CD1 and CD2 formats.

The follow up single, Winnipeg Beach, was released on June 11, 2011, on CD and digital download with two exclusive new tracks.  "Tape" was released as the final single on January 31, 2012, again with two exclusive new tracks. 

Containing other crowd pleasing songs such as “Digital Representation” and “Not In A Million Years,” the new album It’s Never the Way You Imagine It was released worldwide on April 19, 2011, on Decadrisco Records.

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