Everything about TWEN is hands-on. Ian produces, engineers, and mixes their albums. Jane designs every visual element, from videos, to posters, to merch. They’ve screen-printed their own shirts, booked their own tours, edited their own films, and built their tour van into a full-time mobile home. Their 2022 LP One Stop Shop wasn’t just a title, it was the truth. Even now, as their reach has expanded to a sold-out Red Rocks Amphitheatre show, opening arena tours, and having played 500+ shows across North America and Europe, they’ve kept full control. It’s proof you can exist outside the system and still make something that is current and alive.
“TWEN, named after a post-war German magazine; a slang term for people in their twenties, has a sound that’s at once modern and nostalgic. Per the band, it’s ‘1965, 1995 and 2025 all at the same time.'” – Jax Today
Written across highways & coastlines, their latest LP ‘Fate Euphoric’ isn’t nostalgic, though it nods to Britpop, psych, and new wave. It sounds more like the past filtered through the noise of right now. If ‘One Stop Shop’pointed out the problems of the 2020s from a first person perspective, ‘Fate Euphoric’ takes a bird’s-eye view, seeking comfort in the cosmic wheel that will always keep spinning. TWEN are a band in flux, and that’s the point. The van is still home, but the studio is wherever the signal feels right. The fate might be uncertain, but for now, it’s euphoric
Fate Euphoric is available on election day, November 4, 2025 via the band’s own label Twenterprises.
Monsoon
This is the part where I have to tell you about the band and pretend an outside source wrote something really flattering in the passage below. Unfortunately no one ever said anything nice about us, so here I go. “Monsoon is a really good two piece band from Athens, Ga.” Don’t worry, it’s not the kind of indie rock where I stand still enough for my own drool to slobber down onto my obscure reverb pedal. I work on shows and schedule an unhealthy amount of touring so that we don’t ever have to go back to our real jobs. And he is the mechanic to our beloved Honda Odyssey which doubles as our mobile home on the road. We can’t afford a big van or hotels, nor do either one of us have many friends across America (as we don’t typically like people). So not many floors to crash on between the two. Sleeping/living in the minivan is how we make everything work financially and continue to be the great DIY rock band that we are today. Since you asked. In 2016 we were placed on a Toyota commercial that aired during the Superbowl . Pretty insane moment for a small local punk band. We didn’t get rich or famous like we wanted to, but I think it’s still something to be proud of. After that, we both reconnected after a depressing hiatus, and now Monsoon tours all over the universe connecting with others through the power of music. Thanks for being apart of it. You all are why we do it, and not because of the big boobied girls that throw money at us and mob around our minivan after the shows.
This is the part where I have to tell you about the band and pretend an outside source wrote something really flattering in the passage below. Unfortunately no one ever said anything nice about us, so here I go. “Monsoon is a really good two piece band from Athens, Ga.” Don’t worry, it’s not the kind of indie rock where I stand still enough for my own drool to slobber down onto my obscure reverb pedal. I work on shows and schedule an unhealthy amount of touring so that we don’t ever have to go back to our real jobs. And he is the mechanic to our beloved Honda Odyssey which doubles as our mobile home on the road. We can’t afford a big van or hotels, nor do either one of us have many friends across America (as we don’t typically like people). So not many floors to crash on between the two. Sleeping/living in the minivan is how we make everything work financially and continue to be the great DIY rock band that we are today. Since you asked. In 2016 we were placed on a Toyota commercial that aired during the Superbowl . Pretty insane moment for a small local punk band. We didn’t get rich or famous like we wanted to, but I think it’s still something to be proud of. After that, we both reconnected after a depressing hiatus, and now Monsoon tours all over the universe connecting with others through the power of music. Thanks for being apart of it. You all are why we do it, and not because of the big boobied girls that throw money at us and mob around our minivan after the shows.
