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Nov 20, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Lena Warnke

Fortuna 500 are a new rock outfit based out of Somerville, Massachusetts, playing a loose, wiry, and twangy blend of garage rock, slacker rock, and chugging bar band fare. Amidst their steady touring around the Northeast this fall, the band, led by singer/songwriter Cole Triedman, debuted their first single, “Sara Lee,” before returning last month with their track “Romantic Civilians.” Today, they are back with an early listen to their latest single, “Swamp In My Hand,” premiering with Under the Radar.

After the Pavement-esque slacker rock of “Romantic Civilians,” “Swamp In My Hand” sees the band leaning into a hardscrabble blues guitar chug, anchored by swampy rock grooves and sardonic lyrics. The track’s opening minute plays out like a lost Rolling Stones cut, with Ryan DiLello and Triedman throwing out course, bluesy guitar licks as Harley Spring’s slide guitar weaves through the mix. Bassist “Farmer” Dave Levine and drummer Julian Snyder hold the track’s rhythm section down, eventually building up steam for a blistering barn-burning finish. As Triedman explains, “‘Swamp In My Hand’ was recorded live and sweaty, Fortuna 500 is alive and sweaty, and this song captures the garage country ruckus we’ve been pushing around the Northeast since we got together last winter.”

Meanwhile, Triedman weaves the track’s sweaty, lowdown bar band rock with a cutting lyrical edge, needling at self-aggrandizing motorists specifically and rich idiots more broadly: “Cuz money don’t buy a ticket to heaven / And love plus money, we all know how that one goes / And fame will kill you by the time you’re 27 / So you’re better off rubbing yourself than that lamp that you hold / Well who do you think you are? / Riding round town in that silly car / And how do you think it’ll go? / Riding so fucking fast on a residential road.”

Triedman says of the track, “This song springs from days when the world and people inhabiting it feel overtly backwards, nefarious, and fucked up. Those days seem all too frequent lately, and we’re having fun roaring about it.”

Check out the song below, out everywhere tomorrow, November 21st.