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Bellringer

Bellringer

Ride

New Orleans rockers Bellringer ride guitar fuzz and organ into focus on their second album, is this the afterlife.

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Ride

Bellringer

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MOODS · driving · fuzzy · guitar-forward · nostalgic · bittersweet · rocking · windows-down · searching · organ-laced · reflective

BIOGRAPHY

Bellringer is a New Orleans band fronted by Summer Newman on vocals, guitar and organ, alongside guitarist Caspian Halliwell of Twisted Teens, bassist Eli Goldman and drummer Howe Pearson. Their second album, is this the afterlife, was co-produced by Halliwell and Newman at Halliwell's studio in Holy Cross, New Orleans, and mastered by Jaxon Vesely in Minneapolis. While Halliwell produced and played lead guitar across most of the record, the song "Ride" finds Newman taking the wheel, opening in fuzz before snapping into a guitar-forward rocker built around an organ line and the chorus "In the end / All we knew was gone."

WHY THEY'RE COOL

Bellringer's "Ride" was singled out by Paste Magazine as one of the best songs of the week in October 2026, praised as a track built for driving with the windows down even as it keeps one eye on what's disappearing in the rearview. The song stands out on is this the afterlife as the moment frontwoman Summer Newman steps forward from under Caspian Halliwell's production and lead guitar work, delivering a chorus that balances momentum with loss.

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