Jetty Bones
Kelsie Danielle Marie "Kelc" Galluzzo, known by the stage name Jetty Bones, is an American indie pop singer-songwriter from Urbana, Ohio. Galluzzo released a series of EPs in the 2010s before signing to Rise Records and releasing her debut album, Push Back, in 2021. Her backing band over the years has included Katie Cole of DangerKids, RB Roe of Save Face, and Dylan Mattheisen of Tiny Moving Parts.
Early life
Galluzzo grew up in Urbana, Ohio. She is of Italian, Irish, and Cherokee descent. She had voiced a desire to be an entertainer as early as kindergarten, and in elementary school she kept binders of song lyrics and attempted to start bands with classmates. When she was in the fifth grade, her brother, who was living in California, found her listening to Simple Plan and subsequently sent her albums from punk bands like Blink-182, Misfits, The Clash, and Dead Kennedys, as well as a bass guitar. She wrote her first song on guitar in seventh grade, posted bedroom demos to Myspace, and formed the bands Delta Delta! and Midnight Nation with people she had met at local shows. She later recalled Natalie Imbruglia's 1997 hit single "Torn" as the first song she formed an emotional attachment to. She was motivated to seriously pursue music after performing a song she had written about a friend who had committed suicide and subsequently receiving a message from a fan who told her the song had convinced her not to take her own life.Career
2015–2017: Origins, ''Crucial States'', and ''Old Women''
After bouncing around different projects for several years, Galluzzo decided to start a solo project to avoid the risk of losing members and having to start over and began performing as Jetty Bones in 2015. The name Jetty Bones is a spoonerism of Betty Jones, a woman Galluzzo had known who had broken out of an all-girls Catholic school and who espoused the philosophy "If you aren’t happy where you are, you go somewhere else", which Galluzzo saw as encompassing the project's themes of growth and change. She initially performed as a duo with drummer/guitarist Brenna Myers based out of Springfield. Her debut EP, Crucial States, was released independently on March 15, 2016, and was recorded with producer Joe McFaddin. Galluzzo contributed vocals to Tiny Moving Parts' 2016 album Celebrate, and frontman Dylan Mattheisen recommended her in an interview with BrooklynVegan.In May 2017, Galluzzo performed at the second annual Steadfast Festival alongside The Classic Crime, Matt & Toby, and Kids in the Way. In October, she supported The Wonder Years on their Burst & Decay Acoustic Tour alongside Laura Stevenson and The Obsessives. She also did a short tour with Tiny Moving Parts, and in September she opened for Real Friends in Toledo, Ohio. The following month she released her second EP, Old Women, on October 6 through indie label Take This To Heart Records. She recorded the album with producer Greg Lindholm at his Warming House studio and with Mattheisen, who was also featured on the track "Spokes"; Galluzzo had met Mattheisen while touring with Tiny Moving Parts several years prior and he would become a guitarist in her backing band. In December, she performed at a farewell show for the band Runaway Brother in Cleveland alongside McCafferty and Heart Attack Man.
2018–2019: ''–'' (''hyphen'') and signing to Rise Records
Galluzzo issued a combined vinyl pressing of Crucial States and Old Women via Take This To Heart in early March 2018. That spring, she toured with Knuckle Puck on a lineup including Free Throw, Hot Mulligan, and Boston Manor. Later in the year, she toured with The Dangerous Summer, The Early November, and Save Face throughout September and October.On September 14, 2018, Galluzzo released the single "Bringing It Up", which would become the first single from her upcoming EP, –. She chose the title to symbolize "something for that isn't necessarily written out, just like the title." She once again worked with Dylan Mattheisen to develop the songs and recorded with producer Brett Romnes. A second single, "The Rest Of Them", was released on January 17, 2019, via Alternative Press; noting the irony of releasing the last song on the record as a lead single, Galluzzo said, "The record is about a healing process that got me from one place to another, and I’d rather celebrate where I am now than lead with where I came from." The following month, Galluzzo joined Mat Kerekes' solo tour alongside Jacob Sigman. Two more singles, "'Better'" and "To Know You...", were released in early February, and the EP was released on February 22, debuting on four Billboard charts.
In May and June, Galluzzo performed at the second annual BreakFEST, a festival created by Chad Gilbert and based in Franklin, Tennessee, alongside Gilbert's band New Found Glory as well as Real Friends, Hawthorne Heights, Mae, The Early November, Microwave, H.A.R.D., Love You Later, and Doll Skin. Later that month, Galluzzo joined the 2019 Sad Summer Festival, supporting headliners State Champs, Mayday Parade, The Maine, The Wonder Years, Mom Jeans, Stand Atlantic, and Just Friends alongside fellow supporting acts Grayscale, Worriers, Four Year Strong, Set It Off, Forever the Sickest Kids, and Every Avenue. In November, she joined the second leg of New Found Glory's "From The Screen To Your Stereo To Your Town Tour" alongside Hawthorne Heights and Free Throw.
On November 21, 2019, it was announced that Jetty Bones had signed to Rise Records, an event she commemorated by releasing a music video for "the part:", directed by Michael Herrick, to serve as an ending to the – era. Galluzzo remarked in a press statement that "Growing up in Ohio, we used to have this local scene saying about how the dream was to ‘live in Ohio, start a band, then sign to Rise Records'. Well, 12 years later, I finally get to say that those teenage dreams are a reality."
2020–present: ''Push Back''
Galluzzo was scheduled to support Tiny Moving Parts on their spring North American tour alongside Belmont and Capstan in March 2020, but the tour was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic; she instead began posting bonus content to her Patreon page. She had also been scheduled to support Stand Atlantic on their North American tour later in the year alongside Trash Boat and Super Whatevr. On October 9, she released a new single entitled "Taking Up Space", produced by John Fields and with an accompanying music video directed by Lindsey Byrnes and Dani Okon. The song was named by Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times as one of the 50 best songs of 2020.On January 22, 2021, Galluzzo released another single and music video, "That's All", which was simultaneously revealed as the second single from her upcoming Rise Records debut album, Push Back. She once again worked with Byrnes and Okon for the video. A third single, "Nothing", with a video directed by Mark Eschleman, was released on February 23 via Nylon magazine. Push Back was released on February 26 via Rise Records, with Fields producing and featuring Heart Attack Man's Eric Egan on the song "Bad Time". In August she performed at the Sound Valley Summer Music Festival in Dayton alongside local acts including the Raging Nathans, Nightbeast, and K.Carter.
On March 3, 2023, Galluzzo released a new album, "Songs I Wrote Instead of Killing Myself ".
On September 8, 2024, Galluzzo released a single, "Rain's Comin'".
Musical style
Galluzzo's music has been variously identified as indie pop and indie rock, pop rock, alternative pop, folk-pop, emo, pop punk, and math rock. Her style and vocals have been compared to Paramore, Alanis Morissette, Halsey, Carly Rae Jepsen, Kacey Musgraves, Tiny Moving Parts, Owen, and Julien Baker.Galluzzo's sound has evolved over the years. The earliest incarnation of the project was compared to indie rock artists Waxahatchee and Fear of Men. Her early EPs featured a more guitar-heavy alternative rock and pop punk sound, influenced by folk, Midwest emo, and math rock and complemented by bright vocals, catchy hooks, and pop vocal melodies and chord structures. Old Women featured a pop rock sound with elements of pop punk, math rock, and emo revival that drew comparisons to Paramore, Tiny Moving Parts, and early Eisley. Paige Pomerantz of Soundigest compared her vocals on Old Women to Hayley Williams and wrote "If Paramore and Tiny Moving Parts had a child, it would be named Jetty Bones." The – EP saw her sound shift in a more eclectic and electronic direction; "'Better'" utilizes electronic drums and an echoing chorus, "Bringing It Up" combines elements of 1960s pop and punk rock with "melodic, time-warpy vocals" and energized guitars and drums, "To Know You..." incorporates country guitars similar to Kacey Musgraves, and "the part:" concludes with a Siri-delivered monologue. Galluzzo noted that the EP featured more synth and pop elements than her previous work and that it sounded "more like most of what I demo out in my bedroom, the sound I was too nervous to share because I wasn’t sure anyone would listen." She also experimented with new vocal styles on the album, and positive reception to this experimentation gave her the confidence to further push boundaries on future releases.
Push Back saw her sound expand even further, embracing more of a pop focus with elements of alternative country, bluegrass, R&B, hip hop, and synthpop and more emphasis on electronics and piano. Lead single "Taking Up Space" is a country-leaning indie rock/pop punk song reminiscent of Taylor Swift. "That's All" incorporates pop, hip hop, and R&B sounds with a math rock-influenced guitar line and faster sing-rapping vocals that also appear on "Everything" and "Woke Up Crying". "Nothing" is an '80s-inspired synthpop dance song a la Kelly Marie and Tiffany that also utilizes power pop guitars and saxophone. "Dolly", named for country singer Dolly Parton, is an upbeat bluegrass and country pop track, complete with vocal twang. To promote the album, Galluzzo provided to Alternative Press a playlist of songs that had inspired her while working on the album, which included Laura Branigan's "Gloria", Ben Folds and Regina Spektor's "You Don't Know Me", and The Chicks' "Goodbye Earl", as well as songs from Paramore, Microwave, Mallrat, WHY?, La Dispute, Moros Eros, All Get Out, pronoun, MewithoutYou, Peter Bjorn and John, Annie DiRusso, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Graace, and Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes.