The GRAMMY Museum was thrilled to welcome Wallows to the Museum’s Ray Charles
Rooftop Terrace for an evening discussing their rising career, creative
process, and third studio album, Model,
with a special performance to follow.
 
Wallows – composed
of Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston – returned in 2024 with
their highly anticipated third studio album, Model,
which saw them reunite with GRAMMY® Award-winning producer John Congleton (St.
Vincent, Sharon Van Etten). Recorded at Los Angeles’ legendary Sunset Sound,
the album was met by critical applause from the likes of CLASH,
proclaiming Model “a no-skips
record,” DORK who stated the album is “a stunning, natural evolution into their
next chapter… guaranteed to reward on each and every listen,
and GRAMMY.com noting “Model helps
lift their career into a new sphere of guitar-driven stardom.” Model includes the band’s biggest
streaming debut for a single to date and their first song to hit the MediaBase
Top 40 chart in “Calling After Me,” as well as the singles “Your
Apartment,” “You (Show Me Where My Days Went),“ “Bad Dream,” and “A Warning.” 
 
Dylan, Braeden &
Cole have been best friends since they began playing music together at the
age of 11 in the Los Angeles music program, Join the Band, almost two decades
ago. The band made a blockbuster full-length debut with 2019’s John Congleton-produced
and now RIAA certified Gold album, Nothing
Happens, which proved one of that year’s highest streamed debuts, fueled
in part by the 3x RIAA Platinum hit single, “Are You Bored Yet? (Feat.
Clairo).” 2022 saw the arrival of Wallows’ sophomore album, Tell Me That It’s Over, produced by 3x
GRAMMY® Award-winner Ariel Rechtshaid (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Adele). The album
was also among the year’s highest streaming debuts and entered in the top 5 on
Billboard’s “Top Alternative Albums” chart while earning applause for its vast
array of musical ideas, fusing lo-fi post-punk, indie-folk, early ’90s
dance-pop psychedelia, and more into the band’s own one-of-a-kind creative
vision.