Gonna Climb That Mountain

NEW EP: KILIMANJARO — AUGUST 14, 2026

Wicked Peace is a Lexington, Kentucky band.

After more than a decade of albums, EPs, live shows, detours, and pit stops, the band packed its gear up a hillside to a cabin deep in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Over one weekend, they wrote and recorded five new songs entirely from scratch. The result is KILIMANJARO.

Fourteen years in, Wicked Peace is still climbing that mountain.

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Band History

In 2013, frontman Tanner Blevins and guitarist Patrick Brumback shared a Morehead State dorm hallway and musical dreams. With Tanner’s older sister Amanda joining on vocals and songwriting duties, the band quickly took shape, releasing Conclusions in 2014 — a charmingly DIY debut full of personal, scornful laments and loose acoustic-pop, setting the tone for the heartfelt, genre-blurring path ahead. They followed with 2015’s Growing Pain EP.

Chasing a bigger sound, the band headed to Nashville to record The Edge EP at Blackbird Studios. A run of polished singles followed — “All of Me,” “Halfway,” “New Addiction,” and “Tubesox” — recorded back home at Lexington’s Shangri-La Studio. With the addition of powerhouse drummer Matt Holleran and bassist Jared “Hippie” Davis, Wicked Peace also dove deep into production work, building their own Butchwood Studios in the process.

Over the next few years, the band entered their most prolific era: four EPs (The Portland EP, The Evening EP, The High Road EP, Scott Named the Band (Live at Butchwood)), high-energy singles like “(Take Off My) T-Shirt” and “Ur Welcome,” and — at last — their first full-length album: 2019’s Rock N Roll Racecar, a full-throttle showcase of their growth, humor, and heart.

In 2023, the band returned with Wicked Peace, a self-titled record that sharpened their hooks and expanded their palette — delivering 10 hummable, harmonized songs about heartbreak, resilience, and boats.

In 2025, Wicked Peace celebrated 13 years together with two retrospective releases:

Still Wicked After All These Years: Greatest Hits (2013–2025) — a curated collection of 13 essential tracks — and Wicked Pieces: Oddities, Rarities, Demos & Live Cuts, a companion compilation digging into the band’s offcuts, weird gems, and long-lost audio artifacts.

More songs, more shows, and more surprises still to come. The Racecar keeps running.

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