NEW ZEALAND ALT-COUNTRY TROUBADOUR

D.C. MAXWELL SHARES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR

“THE LAST STAND OF THE KILLER” - WATCH

DEBUT ALBUM LONE RIDER

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Auckland alt-country troubadour D.C. Maxwell is excited to share the new music video for “The Last Stand of the Killer” from his debut album Lone Rider, which arrived last year via Los Angeles record label Danger Collective Records. The track is a true centerpiece for the album, and features fine trumpet work from Liz Stokes of The Beths. The intense narrative video sees its protagonist robbing a bank as the song’s lyrics rather literally underscore the action. The video was screened last month at Auckland cinema Hollywood Avondale alongside Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, which Maxwell cites as a major inspiration.

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"I wrote this song as a lilting Scots/Irish folk ballad of a doomed hero, inspired by the songs I grew up listening to from The Pogues,” D.C. Maxwell says about today’s release. “From the start the song/video puts you inside the head of an adrenaline-pumping maniac in the midst of a robbery gone sour. In his final desperate moments, he's hoping against hope that the people he's taken hostage can understand him, forgive him, and maybe even love him a bit.”

Maxwell continues, "I was very inspired by Dog Day Afternoon, and that way that film shows you that in those heightened sweaty situations when everything has gone to hell and you know there's no way out, that's when you find out who you really are.”

Today’s release marks the third music video from Lone Rider, completing the crime-filled and anxiety-ridden cinematic universe around Maxwell’s debut record. Released last summer, Lone Rider is a collection of vivid tales of lives lived on the outskirts. Stories like a horse thief who sees their lover killed or an old woman whose greatest love was a man she hardly knew are soundtracked by orchestral instrumentations and empowered vocals.

D.C. MAXWELL

LONE RIDER

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1. I’ve Been Wrong

2. The Leading Man

3. Out Stealing Horses

4. Silence in the Sky

5. Lone Rider

6. Waiting For My Man to Come

7. Faultline

8. The Last Stand of the Killer

9. Prizefighter

10. I’m With You

D. C. Maxwell is an alt-country singer-songwriter from New Zealand. Formerly the teenage frontman of the high-octane punk band Roidz, Maxwell has grown up to become a tender songwriter who doesn’t shy away from the fiery performance of his songs. With the frenetic energy of a punk preacher, he puts a new spin on the 1970s outlaw country of Lee Hazlewood and Townes Van Zandt. A troubadour, a magnetic performer, but foremost a storyteller, Maxwell’s live show sees him physically embody each of his song’s characters with passion. The mosaic of his songs creates a world of love and loss in roadside motel rooms and the inner lives of small-town dreamers majestic as the plains.

Called “indisputably one of Tāmaki Makaurau’s hottest rising talents” by Under the Radar magazine in 2022, he managed to play several sold-out shows across the country and opened for Future Islands on their New Zealand tour all without releasing a single. His debut album Lone Rider was released in 2023 via Danger Collective Records, leading to a tour with Alex Cameron and acclaim from Rolling Stone Australia and Coup de Main.

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