March 4, 2020 (Los Angeles, CA) – PVRIS has announced a highly-anticipated third studio album Use Me, out May 1 on Reprise/Warner Records. On the new record, frontwoman, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Lynn Gunn steps into a new chapter, as she owns her role as PVRIS’ leader and sole architect. The result is 11 pop conjurations of glitchy beat-craft, airy guitars, and spell-binding vocals. Today, the first track “Dead Weight” launches as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in the World on Radio 1, alongside an official video created in Milan with Italian director YHELLOW who recently directed videos for “Hallucinations” and “Old Wounds.” PVRIS also just announced a spring headline tour, including this year’s Boston Calling, ahead of a North American amphitheater run with Halsey and black bear this summer. Tickets for all headline dates will go on sale this Friday, March 6 at 10 am local time. A full list of dates is below. Lynn explains, “‘Dead Weight’ is about being a people pleaser, holding others up and never asking for anything back. Quite often that can be taken advantage of and it can be hard to say “no”/set boundaries, this feels amplified especially as a woman. This song is about stepping into my power as a woman, shedding old skin and taking nurturing/caretaker feminine nature and turning it into a superpower.” That newfound sense of freedom lies at the core of Use Me. For years, Lynn remained in the background too shy to take all of the credit for the vision of PVRIS and her role in the songwriting, presentation, much of the production, merch, and visual video concepts. At last, she is ready to shine a light on who she is and what she does—as she should have a long time ago. “I allowed myself to support a narrative I thought I had to support of PVRIS being a band,” Lynn confesses. “I didn’t really have a role model for this. Coming from a ‘band culture,’ it’s about how the group is always greater than the sum of its parts, and you’re not supposed to take credit, even if you do everything. There’s no template or role model for really owning it as a woman. I wanted to make everyone else happy and uphold an image I thought we had to. Growing up, I learned I don’t have to do that anymore. I’m finally allowing myself to take credit. I’ve got the full support and encouragement of my bandmates. PVRIS is a unit and very much a team, but the heart and soul of the vision and music always have sourced from me. I’m just saying it now. I fulfilled my own vision of what a role model should be.” Writing and recording all of 2019, she found the perfect collaborator to bring this to life in JT Daly [K. Flay]. With Lynn writing, cooking up beats, playing guitar, drums, and bass, and singing, he amplified and augmented her vision and versatility in the studio. PVRIS set the foundation for the new era with recent EP, Hallucinations, spawning lead single and title track “Hallucinations,” which clocked 10 million total streams in a few months’ time, as well as fan favorites “Old Wounds” and “Death of Me.”NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR: 5/8 Columbus, OH Newport 5/9 Chicago, IL House of Blues 5/12 Detroit, MI The Majestic 5/14 Harrisburg, PA Harrisburg University 5/15 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer 5/19 Norfolk, VA The NorVa 5/20 Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head 5/21 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre 5/22 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom 5/24 Boston, MA Boston Calling (FESTIVAL) 5/26 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore 5/27 Atlanta, GA Masquerade 5/28 New Orleans, LA Republic 5/30 Austin, TX Emo’s 5/31 Dallas, TX Canton 6/2 Phoenix, AZ The Van Buren 6/4 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda 6/5 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades 6/7 San Francisco, CA Regency 6/9 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom 6/10 Seattle, WA Neptune SUMMER 2020 TOUR WITH HALSEY 7/12 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage 7/15 Forest Hills, NY Forest Hills Stadium 7/18 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center 7/19 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion 7/22 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre 7/24 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena 7/25 Saint Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 7/27 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre 7/30 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre 8/1 Irvine, CA Five Point Amphitheatre Use Me Tracklisting: 1. Gimme A Minute 2. Dead Weight 3. Stay Gold 4. Good To Be Alive 5. Death of Me 6. Hallucinations 7. Old Wounds 8. Loveless 9. January Rain 10. Use Me 11. Wish You Well More About PVRIS: Growing up in Lowell, MA, frontwoman Lynn Gunn taught herself drums, guitar, and bass by sneaking into her brother’s bedroom in grade school and playing for hours on end. During the computer lab at school, she discovered production and recording software, tuning out the day’s lessons in order to tinker with her very first beats. This process carried over to PVRIS, which she officially formed in 2013 joined by bandmates Alex Babinski [guitar, keys] and Brian MacDonald [bass, keyboards]. A year later, White Noise inspired a growing fan base and scored a silver certification in the UK. Meanwhile, 2017’s All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell bowed in the Top 5 of the Billboard Top Alternative Albums Chart and ushered their stream tally past 220 million by 2020. Over the next seven years, they performed everywhere from Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Reading & Leads to Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! in addition to supporting Muse, Fall Out Boy, and 30 Seconds To Mars in arenas and selling out headline dates worldwide. At the same time, Vice, The New York Times, Medium, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Playboy, and more extended praise. Advocating for the LGBTQ community, she supported organizations such as The Ally Coalition. | 
