Hotly-tipped alt-rock band ROCKET shares new single 'Crossing Fingers'

Los Angeles quartet Rocket have been tipped for great things by NME, Dork, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press and Consequence, and are primed to spread word of their kinetic cocktail of alt-rock, shoegaze and grunge to big audience in the UK when they tour as guests to The Smashing Pumpkins in August. Their rise continues as they now share ‘Crossing Fingers’, their third new track of 2025.

Swirling between the ethereal beauty of vocalist / bassist Alithea Tuttle’s dream-like voice and the aggressive bite from its crashing wall-of-sound instrumental intensity, ‘Crossing Fingers’ is set to intensify the band’s burgeoning reputation. It’s a home-spun affair too, having been written by the band and produced by guitarist Desi Scaglione.

Alithea says: “‘Crossing Fingers’ is the story of falling so deep into a partnership with someone and bearing the weight of the fear of messing it all up. Knowing that changing for them would mean sacrificing yourself, but not being able to help the feeling of wanting to change for them. Hoping that the two of you can grow together over years and years, but not knowing if that is even in the cards for you. Knowing that only time will tell.”

Rocket powered into 2025 with the reissue and first CD and vinyl pressings (available HERE) of their acclaimed debut EP ‘Versions of You’. It was boosted by the addition of the blistering new track ‘Take Your Aim’ and then ‘One Million’, a soaring, harmony-laden ode to accepting you’ve given all you can in a relationship.

The band’s UK schedule adds a Brixton Windmill headline show and a set at the Green Man Festival to their dates with The Smashing Pumpkins. October and November then sees them hit the road for an expansive North American tour. Tickets are available HERE.

Rocket became Alithea Tuttle’s future after an earlier dream had died. She had been a promising dancer in her teens, but that destiny was curtailed due to a spinal injury. Instead she teamed up with Desi Scaglione and channelled that energy into making music which wielded the dreamy and explosive guitar-dense textures of The Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody Valentine with the bite of Fugazi and Helmet.

The pair completed Rocket was fully realised with guitarist Baron Rinzler and their childhood friend, drummer Cooper Ladomade, and they started jamming relentlessly during the pandemic era. While they couldn’t play shows, that time imbibed them with the shared musical telepathy of a band who have been touring together for years. A chance acquisition of a 1970s Yamaha PM-1000 mixer console at a local garage sale provided an opportunity to DIY record their debut EP, ‘Versions of You’, which was entirely self-written by the band with production courtesy of Desi.

The EP earned further praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Paste and Consequence. The forward momentum put the band on the road for most of 2024, opening for iconic bands like The Pixies’ Frank Black, Ride, Sunny Day Real Estate and Silversun Pickups as well as peers including Julie, Bar Italia and Hotline TNT. The band appeared on festival stages around the world, including Pitchfork London and Paris, Bumbershoot and Best Friends Forever.