The Athens-based alternative rock band SCHMOOZE has made their mark in the local scene and now has its eyes set on expanding their audience to listeners in Atlanta and across Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The band was created in 2022 by guitarist Jack Weatherby, and drummer Dallas Wiggins, while they were students in the University of Georgia\u2019s music business program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SCHMOOZE first started as a freeform project focused on at-home jam sessions, with former member Kutter Reddan on guitar. Stewie Brannam eventually joined the band as a temporary vocalist while the musicians grew their sound. But after Reddan\u2019s graduation in 2023 and subsequent departure from the group, the band faced questions about its future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed to figure out what direction we\u2019re gonna go in,\u201d Weatherby said. \u201cSo, over that summer, it was kind of some soul searching and figuring out, \u2018What are we gonna do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the departure of Brannam and Reddan, SCHMOOZE wanted a new singer, but wondered where to find them. The group turned to \u201cAthens Jam Ham,\u201d a GroupMe group chat where Athens musicians could connect.<\/p>\n
Through this group they were able to meet Cameryn Carr, a UGA communications major, who soon became their lead vocalist. With Carr\u2019s addition, the group\u2019s direction shifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cCam\u2019s got a powerful voice,\u201d Weatherby said. \u201cShe can write some very strong lyrics. So we wanted to kind of build around that.\u201d<\/p>\n
This period marked the development of\u00a0 the band\u2019s signature, heavier, distorted style, which shaped their first EP \u201cIf You Say So\u201d, which released July 11.<\/p>\n
The EP’s five tracks were a collection of 2022-era originals combined with Carr\u2019s influence in lyricism. The album art, which features a variety of dark, psychedelic eyeballs, was painted by Carr\u2019s own roommate and long-time friend, Angelina Lemon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very big on [wanting] something to sound like a project and be kind of intentional,\u201d Carr said about the EP.<\/p>\n
More recently, the band announced a variety of show dates for both Athens and Atlanta concert venues, including The Masquerade and local Athens events including Porchfest and Stay Dead Fest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n <\/div><\/div> <\/p>\n Athens-based alternative rock band SCHMOOZE performs during a recent show. Formed in 2022 by University of Georgia students Jack Weatherby and Dallas Wiggins, the group now features lead vocalist Cameryn Carr and is set to expand its audience with upcoming shows in Athens and Atlanta. (Courtesy\/SCHMOOZE)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The band\u2019s most recent musical release, a new single titled \u201cToo Late to Plead Insanity,\u201d will be out on Nov. 7. The single will be a love song that highlights Carr\u2019s feelings about being in a relationship while fighting personal battles.<\/p>\n \u201cI personally think that this is the best song that we\u2019ve ever written or recorded,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n SCHMOOZE drew inspiration for the single from pop-punk Paramore\u2019s song \u201cAll I Wanted\u201d, as well as “Anti-Eulogy” by Hail the Sun. The band agreed that the song was one of their strongest lyrically, instrumentally and productionally.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI would hope that there\u2019s at least one [person who] could listen to that song and the things that I\u2019m describing and feel it in the same way and relate to it or resonate with it in some way,\u201d Carr said. \u201cEven if it\u2019s not their exact scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n \n The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.redandblack.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Athens-based alternative rock band SCHMOOZE has made their mark in the local scene and now has its eyes set on expanding their audience to listeners in Atlanta and across Georgia.\u00a0 The band was created in 2022 by guitarist Jack Weatherby, and drummer Dallas Wiggins, while they were students in the University of Georgia\u2019s music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[321691,21990,325387,387580,307228,322632,307227,321687,21741,387590,21800,387584,22437,381431,321689,307226,178694,343349,357133,23471,387587,23083,314990,307225,387586,387589,322630,322631,22366,312400,308169,322633,387588,387581,387585,387582,387583,332802],"class_list":["post-2069917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-african-american-music","tag-albums","tag-alternative-rock","tag-alternative-rock-albums","tag-american-styles-of-music","tag-audio-works","tag-contemporary-music","tag-english-language-music","tag-entertainment","tag-mass-media","tag-music","tag-music-and-art","tag-music-industry","tag-music-mass-media","tag-music-of-the-united-states","tag-musical-subgenres","tag-musicology","tag-north-american-styles-of-music","tag-paramore","tag-performing-arts","tag-pop-albums","tag-pop-music","tag-pop-punk","tag-popular-music","tag-porchfest","tag-psychedelic-music","tag-recorded-music","tag-rock-albums","tag-rock-music","tag-singing","tag-song","tag-sound-recording","tag-the-band","tag-uga","tag-uga-music-business-program","tag-uga-student","tag-uga-student-music","tag-university-of-georgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Athens-band-SCHMOOZE-expands-to-Atlanta-with-new-music-upcoming.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069919,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069917\/revisions\/2069919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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