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HARDY UNVEILS VISUAL FOR “SOUL4SALE”
July 17, 2024—Today, HARDY unveils a visualizer for “SOUL4SALE” featuring Fred Durst—watch here. The track is taken from his new album Quit!!, released last Friday to widespread acclaim via Big Loud Rock. HARDY—QUIT!!
WITH FRED DURST
NEW ALBUM QUIT!! DEBUTS TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM,
LIVE DELUXE VERSION OUT NOW
DRAWS MASSIVE CROWD AT OHIO’S
COUNTRY CONCERT 24, 20,000 FANS TUNE INTO
VEEPS LIVESTREAM
HARDY spent the weekend celebrating the release: Friday saw a tattoo pop-up at Barber's Electric Tattoo Shop in Cincinnati, where fans got special HARDY-themed tattoos, as well as a Walmart signing that was among the company’s best attended ever. On Saturday, HARDY headlined Fort Loramie, Ohio’s legendary Country Concert 24, attracting a crowd of 29,000—the festival’s second biggest ever—plus 20,000 fans watching live via VEEPS.
On Monday, HARDY unveiled a live deluxe edition of Quit!! with eight new versions recorded on the first weekend of the Quit!! tour earlier this year, and just yesterday dropped a live video for “PSYCHO” recorded in Ohio this weekend—watch here.
Furthermore, HARDY will perform on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” next Wednesday, July 24.
Quit!! is already receiving critical acclaim, with HARDY gracing the cover of Revolver plus praise from Billboard, where critics call the album “visceral and raw” and praise HARDY’s “intense, defiant delivery,” Holler, who declare that “with heavy, swampy electric guitar riffs and in-your-face bursts of HARDY’s guttural growl, Quit!! is a 13-song rollercoaster,” and many more.
The new album, recorded with Big Loud hitmaker Joey Moi (Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Nickelback), features “SIX FEET UNDER,” “ROCKSTAR”—which is currently climbing at rock radio and HARDY performed on “Kimmel” in May, “PSYCHO,” title track “QUIT!!,” “JIM BOB” and “HAPPY HOUR” featuring Knox, plus a collaboration with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on “GOOD GIRL PHASE.” Quit!! is HARDY’s first full album embrace of his rock sound and follows last year’s much lauded, half rock LP, the mockingbird & THE CROW, which has spawned multiple #1 singles across genres.
HARDY is currently touring the U.S. on his headline Quit!! Tour in addition to a slew of summer festival appearances, finishing with a return to his home state of Mississippi for his first ever stadium show and two back-to-back nights at Red Rocks this fall. Full routing is below.
Big Loud Records/Big Loud Rock heavy hitter HARDY—crowned “Nashville’s nü-metal king” by the Los Angeles Times—soared to new heights in 2023 with the release of his critically acclaimed half-country, half-rock sophomore album the mockingbird & THE CROW, adding to 4.6 billion career streams. The 17-track effort debuted top five all-genre on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and topped seven additional Billboard charts in its first week, including Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Album Sales.
The pride of Philadelphia, Mississippi has earned his reputation as “a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive” (American Songwriter), “capable of writing the big hits for radio, obstinate enough to do something completely unexpected, and savvy enough to find the throughline for it all” (Rolling Stone). A five-time ACM award winner and two-time CMA award winner, HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year and is a three-time AIMP Songwriter of the Year. HARDY has written 15 #1 singles including his own two-times Platinum chart topper “ONE BEER” featuring Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson, the platinum Dierks Bentley and BRELAND collaboration “Beers On Me,” game-changing two-times Platinum duet “wait in the truck” feat. Lainey Wilson and first-ever rock radio #1 “JACK.” He’s previously toured with Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Cole Swindell and more.
For more information, please contact Carla Sacks or Reid Kutrow at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.
1. QUIT!!
Written by Michael Hardy, Jacob Durrett
2. ROCKSTAR
Written by Michael Hardy, Jacob Durrett, Blake Pendergrass
3. GOOD GIRL PHASE (feat. Chad Smith)
Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hunter Phelps
4. I DON’T MISS
Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hunter Phelps
5. PSYCHO
Written by Michael Hardy, Zach Abend, Jax, Tyler Hubbard
6. HAPPY HOUR (feat. Knox)
Written by Michael Hardy, Smith Ahnquist, Nick Donley,
Jacob Mitchell, Cameron Montgomery, Hunter Phelps
7. JIM BOB
Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hunter Phelps
8. WHYBMWL
Written by Michael Hardy, Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps
9. TIME TO BE DEAD
Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey
10. SOUL4SALE (feat. Fred Durst)
Written by Michael Hardy, Zach Abend, Fred Durst, Ryan Hurd, Ernest Keith Smith
11. LIVE FOREVER
Written by Michael Hardy, Zach Abend, Smith Ahnquist
12. ORPHAN
Michael Hardy, John Byron, David Garcia, Blake Pendergrass
13. SIX FEET UNDER (Caleigh’s Song)
Written by Michael Hardy
Produced by Joey Moi, Co-Produced by HARDY
“QUIT!!” And “ROCKSTAR” produced by Joey Moi,
co-produced by HARDY and Jacob Durrett
“JIM BOB” produced by Joey Moi,
co-produced by HARDY and David Garcia
HARDY LIVE
July 18 /// Country Jam /// Eau Claire, WI
July 19 /// Rock The South /// Cullman, AL
July 21 /// Faster Horses /// Brooklyn, MI
July 25 /// Riverbend Music Center /// Cincinnati, OH
July 26 /// Veterans Park - Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival /// Milwaukee, WI
July 27 /// Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre /// Tinley Park, IL
August 4 /// Watershed Festival /// George, WA
August 17 /// Country Thunder Alberta /// Calgary, AB
August 22 /// Bash on the Bay /// Put-in-Bay, OH
September 12 /// Dudy Noble Field /// Starkville, MS
October 20 /// Red Rocks /// Morrison, CO
October 21 /// Red Rocks /// Morrison, CO