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After months of searching (since May!) and auditioning guitarists all over NC and GA, IMPERIAL FRIEND is very happy to announce the addition of Marissa Jones, to the band. We have been talking to Marissa since July, and working on songs long distance together, but we finally had our first in-person practice last weekend! Marissa is from Covington, GA, and has been musical her whole life, from child singer/performer to the badass, 8-string wielding guitarist she is now. She'

At the beginning of May, while looking at my phone, I fell down the stairs at my house. I dislocated my foot. My foot basically came off and went to the far right at a 90-degree angle inside my skin. I also broke my ankle in several places. Good times. This was by far, not my first trip to a hospital. My familiarity with surgeries and hospitals has become banal at best. My foot was reset (after an insane amount of pain pills) and I had surgery. I now have 3 metal rods in my a

Heather and I had a lot of band name ideas. These days, it's all too easy to come up with a great band name, only to google it or look on Spotify and see that it is already in use - sometimes, by several bands. We toyed with various names, that no one had taken yet, but none of them really were sticking. One morning I woke up from a dream where we had a band called Imperial Friend Group. I immediately wrote it down, thinking it was funny and wanting to not forget the name bef