FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA
New Release: “Waste the Thing” Fall 2026
Genre: Alternative Rock, Rock
Contact: fly.tucker@gmail.com
Tagline: A Los Angeles based artist blending rock, psychedelic elements, electronica and alt‑rock with musicians from LA and New Orleans.
Fly Tucker is a Los Angeles based independent artist, writer, and multi‑media producer whose work spans music, visual design, and architecture. Known for his cinematic aesthetic and cross‑disciplinary approach, Tucker builds projects that merge analog texture with modern digital production, from studio recordings and graphic design to web architecture and long‑form writing.
Growing up in the 1980s, Tucker was a semi‑pro vert skateboarder and helped build one of the best vert ramps in the Tampa Bay Area with his childhood friends. He developed his musical foundation studying classical guitar, but eventually gravitated toward the punk, alternative, and rock influences that shaped his early identity. At fourteen, he formed his first band, Solidarity, with friends from the local skate and punk scene.
At seventeen, Tucker moved to Gainesville to study Architecture at the University of Florida while playing in underground bands across the city’s vibrant music scene. During this time, he worked as assistant manager at Masquerade, the alternative goth club where he first saw the behind‑the‑scenes world of touring acts. Fugazi, Rage Against the Machine’s first tour, and even Cheap Trick came through the venue. He later moved to Atlanta and spent time across the Southeast before settling in San Francisco in the early to mid‑1990s, continuing to perform in Bay Area bands. In 1994 he relocated to Los Angeles, a move he had dreamed about since childhood, and eventually completed his architectural degree at SCI‑Arc in 1999. His architectural background continues to shape his structural approach to storytelling, branding, and digital environments.
Tucker’s professional creative and musical career took shape in the Los Angeles music scene of the 1990s with bands like Super Model No. 9, a hard rock psychedelic 4‑piece band known for the infamous underground art parties called the Millennium Cabaret. In the early 2000s he moved to Brussels, Belgium, joined the Tower artists’ collective, and produced a wide range of international talent across soul, jazz, hip hop, funk, and alternative rock. During this period, he recorded his third album Not Always So (2003), describing the shift as “a whole new universe of inspiration and influences” that reshaped his future work.
His earlier albums Virtual Velvet (1999) and Steady as She Goes (2001) earned airplay on KCRW and college radio across the United States. Rif Raf Magazine described his sound as “warm jazz‑pop meets rock, country, and folk, with soul accents.” His more recent productions include GNL Zamba’s breakout 2018 album The Spear, a genre‑bending Afropunk and hip‑hop record praised for its fusion of rock, hip hop, reggae, and electronic textures. Critics noted the album’s focus on unity and African identity, its “dizzying mix of ideas and infusions,” and Zamba’s ability to deliver socially charged messages over heavy drums, fuzzy guitars, and rapid‑fire vocals. Tucker helped shape the sonic palette that defined the record having composed all the music.
Today, Tucker is focused on new music with the release of two new singles, Waste the Thing and Fever Dream, arriving in Fall of 2026. His new work leans into a mix of personal storytelling shaped by rock, psychedelic elements, and modern alt‑rock influences. After years of producing for other artists, he has returned to his own vision and begun writing from the ground up again. Working with top musicians in Los Angeles and New Orleans, he has built a sound that blends those traditions into a modern rock experience with real roots for the twenty‑first century.
