Night Beats share Giallo-indebted music video and announce new 7" release 'Behind The Green Door' out April 11th

Night Beats, the moniker of Texas native Danny Lee Blackwell, is today releasing the brand new single ‘Behind The Green Door’ and announcing a new 7” out April 11th.

 The A-side is out digitally today alongside an amazing Giallo-indebted music video, which also marks Blackwell’s directorial debut (co-directing alongside frequent collaborator Vanessa Pla). Pre-order the Fuzz Club 45, limited to 500 copies on clear green 7", here

“The song started as a lone star instrumental, something I pieced together in my studio in 2024. I imagined dusty roads and dimly lit dance halls. I wanted the guitars to shimmer like heat waves on an open road. The rhythm to pull like footsteps across a wooden floor, soaked in smoke and neon. The lyrics followed, drawn from past and present—unwavering love, transcendence. The ‘green door’ is that threshold between devotion and disillusionment. The story lives not just in the words, but in the tones and textures, if uncovered.”

Having spent the last fifteen years exploring a nexus of vintage rhythm & blues, after-midnight soul, and sun-scorched psychedelia, here Blackwell presents two markedly different renditions of 'Behind the Green Door.' On side A, out everywhere now, we’re treated to a down-tempo, minor key track drenched in the haze of vice, as if some aspiring Motor City outfit had traveled down to Austin and snuck into the studio to cut a song while The 13th Floor Elevators were on a smoke break. On side B is a breezy '70s Thai disco and dancehall-infused version by the allusive Rah John, discovered by Blackwell on his recent expedition to the island Koh Khram Yai, located off the coast of Pattaya in the Gulf of Thailand.