Jared Petrich and Dana Rogge met through a series of unfortunate and fortunate events in a dive bar in Los Angeles at a musical night put on every Sunday by a community of seasoned musicians. Like two magnets, they were instantly drawn together. It wasn’t long before they began singing, traveling, and writing songs together, seeking inspiration in the omnipresence of higher spiritual realms that linger in the natural world. These adventures ultimately culminated in the creation of The Tulips.
Petrich is the singer, guitar player, and sometimes bassist. Rogge sings backup, playing keys and percussion. Since then, Petrich has toured nationally and internationally with other bands, including his own, and the pair have watched their fan base grow all over the world and become licensed in several films and on network television.
The band has evolved from its early roots of singing and writing folk songs to a more ethereal and psychedelic indie rock band, with other players joining in. The Tulips have three beautiful albums that have received high marks from critics and fans alike. Echoes and Dust wrote, “Keeping a firm contemporary edge to their music, they have stepped ahead of their peers in the Cosmic Americana scene and created an album that feels completely timeless.” The Deli shared, “The languid pace is conveyed with seductive splendor, and the Macarthur residents make hurt sound beautiful in the spacious, burning sorrow that persists.”
The band’s fourth album, Halcyon Beach, is their most collaborative and ambitious project to date. The new album is filled with layered harmonies, grandiose build-ups, reverberated guitars, and vocals, with a dreamy undertone capturing the ebb and flow of what it means to experience life and the existential dissonance that seeps in from the unknown we all experience. Halcyon Beach was engineered and co-produced by Matt Schuessler and The Tulips at Mante Studios in Glassell Park. The album consists of Jared Petrich singing lead vocals, backup vocals, guitar, lead guitar, bass, keys, and slide guitar. Dana Rogge on the keys and backup vocals. Adam Halferty on drums. Fred Garbutt playing piano and keys, Matt Schuessler on bass and backup vocals, and Jimmy Welsh on backup vocals.
SOURCE: Official Bio