Tag: girlfriends

“We had to get a death certificate,” says Travis Mills—one-half of pop-punk duo girlfriends, along with Nick Gross—over a video call from Studio City, about getting the rights to the social media handle that would bear the band’s name.  Before we get into that, however, let’s back up a bit.  Before girlfriends, Mills, who currently […]

When Nick Gross and Travis Mills first entered the music business, reality was an afterthought. It was 2006, the height of Laguna Beach fascination, when a 17-year-old Gross signed his first major-label deal, due in large part to his bandmates’ newfound celebrity (See: pseudo-scripted romances) on the tastemaking MTV show. The group, an Incubus-adjacent outfit […]