Last year, the British dance musician known as Fred Again.. put out a feeler to the Nashville-based alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise about a possible collaboration. Ela Melo, who’s fronted ...

Rainbow Kitten Surprise is back and better than ever. The band is working their way through a lengthy tour of their 2024 album, Love Hate Music Box, with another record on the way. When I last saw ...

When indie rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise returned after six years away in 2024, fans weren’t sure what to think. “We had been pursuing these sounds for so long,” Melo tells Billboard over Zoom.

The band emerged in Boone in 2013 when vocalist Ela Melo and guitarist Darrick Keller bonded over acoustic sessions at Appalachian State, before recruiting Ethan Goodpaster on lead guitar, Jess Haney ...

If you ask a random person on the street if they’ve ever heard of Rainbow Kitten Surprise, their response might be something along the lines of – “What is that?” or “Who?!” It’s not the name of a ...