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Dec 11, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Clark Hodgin

Over the past decade, New York-based seven-piece rock band The Nude Party have built up a sterling reputation for their energetic live shows and swaggering ‘70s-tinged rock n’ roll, returning most recently with their 2023 album Rides On. Since then, the band have gone independent and are set to share their fourth full-length album, Look Who’s Back, early next year.

Look Who’s Back captures the band in a breezy, free-wheeling mode, hitting on a communal energy and the party-drunk atmosphere of a basement show. “We pretty much blitzed into the California desert in the middle of a tour, and spent five days recording and partying with our friends Michael Rault and Pearl Charles. We’d track ‘til the early hours of the morning, fall asleep, cook some eggs, then start up again,” they explain. “Look Who’s Back also comes at a big turning point for us. It’s our first independent studio release since leaving New West Records, and coincides with us all moving from the sleepy Catskills Mountains down to New York City—I hear in these songs that sense of straddling the city and the country, kicking out the jams freely again.”

The band have already shared a string of new singles from the record, “Not That Bad,” “Sweetheart of the Radio,” and “Carolyn.” Today, they’re back with another new track, “Honey For The Barflies,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Honey For The Barflies” offers a candied dose of the band’s swampy bar band rock, complete with a choogling bassline and rumbling drum beat worthy of Creedence Clearwater Revival. The track tumbles forward as vocalist Patton Magee sings about watching barfly regulars competing for a bartender’s affection: “Every night they buzz around your hive / Jive the same old phrases / Absinthe eyes recalling absent wives / In some desert queen’s oasis / Honey’s for the barflies, / Liquor for me.”

Meanwhile, the band’s grooves and twangy guitar lines give the track the texture of a charmingly dingy honkytonk, filling the mix with bouncy keys, knotted guitar soloing, and the train whistle howl of the backing vocals. The band taps into the same energy that animates their live shows, playing off each other seamlessly while throwing out wiry solos and bouncy chord progressions anchored by the chugging thrum of the rhythm section. It all culminates as Magee trades his reedy, crooning vocals for a harmonica solo in the final moments.

Magee says of the track, “A bartender friend of mine was describing the older gentlemen who come into the bar day after day looking to talk to her. She had become exasperated by the constant attention and blurted out ‘I just feel like honey for barflies.’ I thought that was a clever little phrase and started brewing on the idea–taking it from the perspective of a regular who sees himself as somehow separate from the other regulars (as we all naturally do). Later in the album writing sessions, [drummer Connor Mikita] presented this bouncy chord pattern on his Omnichord and the two ideas naturally paired together, with lead dobro and a ‘drunken harmonica style’ solo to boot.”

Check out the song below, along with the band’s upcoming tour dates. Look Who’s Back is out on February 13th, 2026.

The Nude Party Live Dates:

03/05 - Union Stage - Washington DC

03/06 - Cat’s Cradle - Raleigh, NC

03/07 - Pour House - Charleston, SC

03/09 - The Masquerade (Hell) - Atlanta, GA

03/10 - Chickie Wah Wah - New Orleans, LA

03/12 - Lonesome Rose - San Antonio, TX

03/13 - Scoot Inn - Austin, TX

03/14 - Tulips - Dallas, TX

03/16 - Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ

03/17 - Belly Up - San Diego, CA

03/18 - Lodge Room - Los Angeles, CA

03/20 - Pappy & Harriett’s - Pioneertown, CA

03/21 - SLO Brew - San Luis Obispo, CA

03/22 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA

03/24 - Holocene - Portland, OR

03/25 - Neumos - Seattle, WA

03/27 - Treefort Music Fest - Boise, ID

03/28 - State Room - Salt Lake City, UT

04/09 - Belly Up - Aspen, CO

04/10 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO

04/11 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO

04/13 - Turf Club - St. Paul, MN

04/14 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI

04/16 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL

04/17 - Hi-Fi Annex - Indianapolis, IN

04/18 - El Club - Detroit, MI

04/20 - Bearsville Theater - Woodstock, NY

04/21 - Higher Ground Showcase Lounge - Burlington, VT

04/23 - Brighton Music Hall - Boston, MA

04/24 - TV Eye - New York, NY

04/25 - TV Eye - New York, NY

04/27 - Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA

04/30 - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY

05/01 - Basement East - Nashville, TN

05/02 - Grey Eagle - Asheville, NC

05/03 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC