The Dirty Names

 Hailing from Annapolis Maryland. Now based out of Nashville. They have been building their audience with extensive tours throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Ripping apart the stages with high energy performance. We talked to bands that have shared many memories with these guys and they told us, A change of atmosphere takes place when The Dirty Names take the stage. The bands music has been featured all over the place and won at the Williamsburg International Film Festival with their music video for the bands song “Salt Water Jackie”

This hard hitting group consist of four members. Harrison Cofer (vocals/Guitar), Matt Rose (Drums), Sam Wetterau (Bass), and Kit Whitacre (Lead Guitar). This all got started around 2006 Harrison’s says in a interview with Nashville Voyager that he first seen Matt Rose and Sam Wetterau playing music in high school. It was at that moment he knew he wanted to collaborate with Matt and Sam. He quickly joined their band and began performing local gigs with the group. High school ended for Matt and Sam, they both then pursued college declaring the end for their high school band.

In 2010 Harrison turned his focus to creating a new project, Writing songs and creating new branding ideas. keeping in close contact with his friends and old band mates. Matt, already feeling that collage was not his place of destiny, dropped out and joined Harrison. The entire time Sam was in collage studying, he was also learning all the material the Cofer and Rose had been writing. After Graduation Sam Wetterau immediately put his full dedication into the band. They contacted a high praised local shredder “Kit Whitacre” After hearing Cofer’s offer Kit dropped out of college and took the position as lead guitarist. With this Dirty Names band was born!

The Crew jumped in to the scene and started performing.The bands trip to Washington DC and it paid off when they gained a contact for a booking agent that would take the band to a new level. After striking a deal they hit the road rocking for 3 long years, Commanding the stage and Grabbing the attention of anyone in attendance.

The band managed to get noticed by a European booking agent. After a deal they would embark on their first European tour. That trip took them to multiple city’s. Noted 25 days in Spain. By 2015 It had been six years of performances and tours. The band was hungry to explore personal life’s. Dirty Names took a hiatus will the plan set in stone to writing a new album, expand the bands sound and horizon of possibilities.

Harrison took this time to move to Brooklyn, NY, writing a number of the songs that would be released with the bands return. It would be three years before Harrison moved to Nashville, where he would create a plan to reunite the Dirty Names.

In late 2018, Matt Sam and Kit had been working with various project back in Maryland. But when they received the call from Harrison urging them to relocate to Nashville. Followed by a series of encouraging emails that included demos of new material. It was a sound that moved them, quite literally.

After relocating and settling in. Dirty Names performed at Nashville Venue The Basement for new faces night. Feeling the fire of the crowd that night, the band knew they had reunited something great. Quickly lining up there next gigs and promoting the return of the Dirty Names, The guys were undoubtably laser focused.

Unfortunately the familiar story of Covid 19 came to play. Even after getting rocked with with the unexpected these guys never lost focus and kept on rolling. Diving into the production of a new record and keeping the fans updated and entertained online.
Pressing on through Covid, These guys established a support base in Nashville and around the internet.

In 2021 Dirty Names released their Album “Double Your Pleasure” Even though the guys have been releasing music since 2013, Double Your Pleasure would be their debut album to major platforms. In 2022 and 2023 Dirty Names released a notable 6 singles. The most recent single “Voodoo Yoodoo” is a groovy rock song! Achieving Ed King like guitar tone and a Southern rock soul. Mesh all that with the head bouncing drive of The Rolling Stones, Add in the unique edgy twist of the Dirty Names style and you get true voodoo.

Bonded like brothers these guys have been through it, from folks calling the cops on rehearsals and house party’s. Intense situations with venues on the road, these guys have paid dues and continue to rise.
We look forward to what comes next with this band and will continue following them closely for any updates.