Jade Hairpins consist of Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk, both drawn from Fucked Up. Rather than replicate that group’s intense punk edge, the pair pursues grooves rooted in post-punk (evident on the 2020 album Harmony Avenue) alongside glam-rock and power-pop textures (featured on 2024’s Get Me the Good Stuff).
The project surfaced first in enigmatic fashion, issuing a two-track EP without any artist credit on Merge Records in late 2018—the same date Fucked Up released Dose Your Dreams. Those cuts, titled “Mother Man” and “Gracefully,” drew from post-punk and techno while aiming squarely at the dance floor. Within Fucked Up, Falco handles drums; for Jade Hairpins he switches to lead vocals and guitar, leaving Haliechuk to switch from guitar to bass. While still occupied with Fucked Up commitments, the two continued shaping a full album’s worth of material. They carved out time in early 2020 for a U.K. run that included drummer Tamsin M. Leach of ES and Jack Goldstein on the lineup, then issued their debut long-player, Harmony Avenue, via Merge in May. That record broadened their palette with classic indie rock, Orange Juice-styled funk, and synth-driven dance rock. After pandemic restrictions halted activity, the duo returned to the road and refined fresh songs along the way, entering the studio with them in mid-2022. Although Falco and Haliechuk tracked the bulk of what became Get Me the Good Stuff, Leach supplied occasional backing vocals and Jane Fair added saxophone. Released in 2024, the album alternates brisk punk-tinged rockers with insistent dance numbers while folding in Italo-disco, glam rock, and power pop.
