PROMOTION: American band Welcome Center invite you to listen to their latest single, 'Is This All There Is?'

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Reaching out to see if you watched the newest Welcome Center music video for their single "Is This All There Is?" that premiered on PopMatters. Check the video out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEq9PAWLj4
Would love to hear what you think about the video; Welcome Center is also available for features and interviews.

Welcome Center is the Dallas/Philadelphia electronic-pop duo of Jesse Smith and Aaron Sternick, two old friends who met outside a dorm room in Dallas, TX in 2005, only to rekindle that spark 15 years later, collaborating over the internet.

First bonding over a shared taste in Turkish Golds and early-aughts indie rock, over the next 15 years the two found themselves in and out bands together, playing everything from baroque-pop to Ed Banger-influenced house and densely-lyrical folk-rock.

Eventually, Jesse and Aaron found themselves in their early 30s, separated by 1,500 miles and seven state lines, having watched most of their peers cast music aside and move on with their lives. Yearning for the same wide-eyed creative pull from their youth that sparked their relationship over a decade prior and drawing on all of those years of influences, the two began a new collaboration, sending demos and project files back and forth via cloud storage. Smith and Sternick’s kinship is on full display on ‘Is This All There Is?’, the new music video and eponymous single from their new EP, due out TK.

One of the very first songs the band wrote together, the single embodies just what makes their camaraderie click: the buoyant rhythms of early New Order, the throbbing bass of John Maus, the existential dread of early DFA records, while meditating on the inevitable banality of materialism and the American dream.

Touring heavily in 2018 gave Jesse and Aaron the opportunity to slowly refine and perfect every detail of ‘Is This All There Is?’, eventually bringing the song to Kyle Pulley (Hop Along, Dr. Dog) for his final mixing touches.

After the duo complete a short tour in the summer of 2019 in support of “Is This All There Is?”, they’ll hit the studio in July to finish a six-song EP, before touring extensively in the fall.