DATE: MAY 1, 2026

FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER / ANDREA FAULK

THE BONES
RETURN WITH LETHAL NEW SINGLE
“WOKE UP DEAD”

LISTEN TO THE TRACK HERE
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE

“Woke Up Dead” Single Artwork (download)

“Crashed-out, thinkin’ bout the things you said
I woke up dead, I woke up dead
Freight train, runaway inside my head
I woke up dead, I woke up dead”
–“Woke Up Dead,” THE BONES

THE BONES, fronted by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Patrick Vitagliano, have followed up their previous track “My Kind of Crazy (Feat. Phil X)” with today’s (May 1) release of “Woke Up Dead.” With thunderous guitars, snarling vocals, and a dirty glam-rock feel, the song may be the Las Vegas-based hard rock/punk band’s most lethal offering yet. The vivid lyrics mince no words about someone who is “artfully adept at using her words as a weapon,” says Vitagliano. “And let’s face it, we’ve all known many people like that throughout our lives, but I just sort of rolled all those people up into one single verbal, super villain, because it made for a good story.” Listen to the track HERE and watch the video HERE.

“Woke Up Dead” was written by Vitagliano who also co-produced the track with Vinnie Castaldo. It was recorded in Las Vegas at The Tone Factory. A Q&A about the song follows below.

THE BONES—singer/guitarist Patrick Vitagliano (Nuclear Theory/Nuclear Assault spinoff with John Connelly), guitarist Jeff Duncan (Armored Saint/Odin), bassist Sean Koos (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts), and drummer Daniel Margasa (Pat Travers/Rock Godz Hall of Fame)—have four full-length original albums under their belt including Circle in 2024. They are preently recording of a new album.

On the live front, THE BONES will perform May 16 at the Dive Bar and June 26 at the Copa Room inside the Tuscany. They’ll also open the “Totally ‘80s Pool Party Concert” at The STRAT on June 6, joining Bow Wow Wow, Naked Eyes, Prescott Niles’ The Knack, and Missing Persons. THE BONES will play a set of ‘80s covers including ones from their two punked-up covers albums, Ruin Your Rock Show, Live! (2015) and Ruin Your Rockshow, Vol II: Live From the Apocalypse! (2020).

Q&A with Patrick Vitagliano of THE BONES
About “Woke Up Dead”

“Woke Up Dead” has a big, thunderous sound that draws on your hard rock and punk influences, with a killer chorus. Can you talk about the song’s sonics?

Yeah, this one is kinda like a sleazy-rockabilly/glam. So in addition to the usual, straight-up, Bones guitar grind, there’s also piano in there, a pedal-steel that we ran through a ratty, vintage, tube-screamer….and the guitar solo has a real Nashville style to it but with the usual Bones-snarl. The vocals sorta ride the line between that, and Marc Bolan [T. Rex] though, who I greatly admire for his glam sensibility and imagery. I feel like this one is pretty tasty.

Vinnie Castaldo and you co-produced the track. Can you talk about working with Vinnie?

Vin and I have done six albums together now, and we’re somewhat in lock-step with each other when it comes to mix decisions. I’ll make a suggestion, only to find he’s already making that very edit. It’s gotten to where we get in a work groove and almost don’t have to speak…we just do.

The song has strong lyrics, starting with the “I woke up dead” theme and including lines like “You’re a total electric/An icepick in lipstick/Yeah, and you cut so deep.” What lyrically inspired the song’s sentiment?

So that’s a funny story about a very unfunny story…
My friend Brian was talking about this friend of his, who actually had a child pass away in his sleep, out of the fucking blue! Just awful.
Anyway, I asked… Was he sick?
No.
Were there any warning signs whatsoever??
No.
So he just… Woke up dead???
And Brian said… No, you idiot, he didn’t wake up at all. He was fucking dead!!
We laughed for a very long time about my inability to grasp the situation, but the phrase really stuck with me.
It resonated, like an earworm, so much that I eventually found myself singing it. 

Do you know people who embody lines like these?

“Tongue like a razor, disciples, they praise ya
High atop your velvet throne
The ego you’re feedin’, you laugh while I’m bleedin’
You wear it like cheap cologne”

This one is pure fiction. The antagonist is essentially a woman who is artfully adept at using her words as a weapon. And let’s face it, we’ve all known many people like that throughout our lives, but I just sort of rolled all those people up into one single verbal, super villain, because it made for a good story. Beyond that, though, I find using words to evoke emotion, any emotion, incredibly fascinating.

They can bring us incredible joy, and heartbreaking pain.

They can cause us to act or rally us to support a cause.

They can cause us to worship and adore or loathe and even hate.

They can drive someone to euphoria or even drive some people to suicide. Think about that for a second….how fucking powerful is that?!?

They can paint vivid pictures of lush fantasy, or nightmarishly bleak dystopia, and you will see and feel it through the right combination of 26 letters.

As a lyricist, they are just as powerful and instrument as a classical master pouring out their soul on a Stradivarius.

Your voice is a particularly sriking instrument. Who are your biggest influences?

As a vocalist, I could name you an endless list of singers I admire, but I can’t call them influences, because my range is so limited that I barely consider myself a vocalist. That said, I have learned to work within my limitations, to do the most with the least.

But if you are asking for an influence, whenever I sing a line, I always ask myself… What would Mike Ness [of Social Distortion] do?

What’s next for The Bones?

A few things actually. We are obviously working on new material, which will eventually be part of a new full-length Bones album, but will likely start out as Bonus-Tracks on a “Greatest Hits” Double-Vinyl release, later this year, though I feel self-conscious using that term, when “Least Worst-of” fits better 😉

But we’re also doing something completely experimental. We’re re-imagining/re-recording an entire album’s worth of Bones tunes as country-songs and using it to launch an alter-ego live project to perform this reimagined material, along with other classics that span the classic to modern country genre. We’re calling that project “Paper Cowboy.” It’s in its infancy right now, but we’re pretty excited about it. It will be me, with some other exciting Las Vegas players and we’ll probably soft-launch it in the next few weeks, so stay tuned…

The Bones
(Photo Credit: Vincent Young)

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DATE: JANUARY 20, 2026

FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER / ANDREA FAULK

THE BONES
RELEASE NEW SINGLE
“MY KIND OF CRAZY”
FEATURING GUEST GUITARIST PHIL X OF BON JOVI

LISTEN TO THE TRACK HERE
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE

“My Kind of Crazy (Feat. Phil X)” Single Artwork

Las Vegas-based rock & roll band THE BONES, fronted by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Patrick Vitagliano, have released their latest single “My Kind of Crazy (Feat. Phil X).” With lyrics like “She’s the right kind of crazy, 2 parts velvet, 1 barbed wire/Ride or die kind of crazy, and she’ll be your alibi,” it’s a powerful track about romantic obsession that spotlights Vitagliano’s impassioned vocals and the stratospheric lead guitar work of guest guitarist Phil X of Bon Jovi. Listen to “My Kind of Crazy (Feat. Phil X)” HERE and watch the lyric video HERE.

“This one is 100% about my wife Christina,” says Vitagliano, who wrote the music and lyrics and co-produced the track with Vinnie Castaldo at The Tone Factory “Most of the fiction I write is at least somewhat rooted or inspired by some degree of truth, and she’s loosely been the muse that many of my fictional tales are based on. But this one’s ALL her. I fucking love that woman, AND her crazy.”

The Bones are primarily known for their hard rock/punk blend, while “My Kind of Crazy” has more of a big rock ballad feel. Vitagliano explains, “I always let the song dictate its own direction. If you listen, the song will always tell you where it wants to go, and this one was really leaning in sort of a Bon-Jovi-esque direction. Phil is a friend, so I asked him to guest on it, as that style is directly in his wheelhouse.”

THE BONES—singer/guitarist Patrick Vitagliano (Nuclear Theory/Nuclear Assault spinoff with John Connelly), guitarist Jeff Duncan (Armored Saint/Odin), bassist Sean Koos (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts), and drummer Daniel Margasa (Pat Travers/Rock Godz Hall of Fame)—have four full-length original albums under their belt including Circle in 2024. A new album may emerge in 2026 “I think all writers struggle with varying degrees of self-doubt, me especially,” explains Vitagliano. “Every time I pour myself into an album, I always come out of it thinking…well, I’ll never be able to do that again. So crippled with that very real mental hinderance, I always wait until I have three viable singles under my belt, before trying to tackle an album. That in my mind, is the 30% mark, where 10 songs don’t seem quite as daunting.”

What might the album sound like? “The cohesion and ‘Bones’ sound come from us, the players. So regardless of whether we’re doing a pop song, a punk song, a rock song, or a fucking sea shanty…it’s still gonna sound like The Bones.”

Read a recent Q&A with Patrick Vitagliano HERE.

The Bones
(Photo Credit: Vincent Young)

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FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER

DATE: OCTOBER 15, 2025

THE BONES
ANNOUNCE THREE SHOWS IN LAS VEGAS:
ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE ON OCTOBER 24
AT THE COPA ROOM INSIDE TUSCANY SUITES,
FOLLOWED BY TWO FULL BAND SHOWS ON NOVEMBER 13
AT THE DIVE BAR AND DECEMBER 5 AT THE COPA ROOM
INSIDE TUSCANY SUITES

READ A Q&A BELOW WITH
BAND FRONTMAN PATRICK VITAGLIANO

The Bones  (Photo Credit: Vincent Young)

THE BONES are a Las Vegas-based rock & roll band featuring Patrick Vitagliano (Nuclear Theory/Nuclear Assault spinoff with John Connelly), Jeff Duncan (Armored Saint/Odin), Sean Koos (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts), and Daniel Margasa (Pat Travers/Rock Godz Hall of Fame). With four full-length original albums under their belt—including Circle in 2024—their merger of punk and hard rock influences possesses a witty and sarcastic lyrical spin.

Look for the band’s frontman, vocalist and guitarist Patrick Vitagliano, to perform a special acoustic show with ace guitarist Stoney Curtis on Friday, October 24, 10pm, at the Copa Room inside Tuscany Suites (no cover). They’ll support tribute band One Last KISS. Next, THE BONES have set two full band shows. First up is Thursday, November 13, 7pm, at the Dive Bar, again with One Last KISS. The event is billed as “Welcome To Casablanca, The Official, UNOFFICIAL KISS Army Pre-Party.” Tickets are available HERE. This will be followed by a Friday, December 5 show at 10pm at Copa Room inside Tuscany Suites (no cover).

THE BONES’ tongue-in-cheek live show is a high-energy set that often includes rock/metal covers of some of the most unexpected pop songs that were NEVER intended to rock (covering Abba, Devo, Duran Duran, Blondie, The Go-Go’s, Cyndi Lauper, etc—the band have released two double-live albums of these twisted covers) yet somehow, ends up being one of the most memorable, good-time rock shows you’ll see in Las Vegas.

Below is a Q&A with Patrick Vitagliano, who has a lot of interesting things on his mind.

Patrick Vitagliano of The Bones
(Photo Credit: Christina Vitagliano)

12 QUESTIONS
WITH PATRICK VITAGLIANO OF THE BONES

THE BONES are known for their mix of punk and hard rock, with a witty and sarcastic lyrical spin. Where does your sarcasm come from?

Patrick: Lyrically, your words should always provoke a reaction, an emotion, or otherwise “leave a mark” in some small way. You don’t always have the space within a song to really expound on deep thinking, so sarcasm is a way to force someone to think about what you might be trying to say. Subtext, if you will.

Beyond the band’s four studio albums, you’ve released two double-live albums featuring covers of songs that you’ve said were “never intended to rock” (tunes by Abba, Devo, Duran Duran, Blondie, The Go-Go’s, Cyndi Lauper, etc). What inspired you to change up these pop songs?

Patrick: If you think about it, you can play any song ever written, on an acoustic guitar, sitting around a campfire. Metallica, Slayer, anything. And ANY song can be a rock song, a country song, a hip hop song, a punk song, a pop song, etc…it’s all in how you present it. There are such GREAT melodies in a lot of the songs that get dismissed as “cheesy,” purely because of the production style they were rendered in. I like to think that we are rescuing these songs from the sugar-pop production that gives them the bad rep but make no mistake…ALL of these songs are chosen because they are amazing songs.

If you were to record a duet with a current artist outside the genre of music for which you’re known, who might that be, and which song would you cover and why?

Patrick: One of my favorite duets ever recorded was “Henry Lee,” by Nick Cave, recorded with PJ Harvey, from his Murder Ballads album. It’s dark, haunting, and impossibly sexy for a song that is literally about murder. Though if I had a dream duet partner, it would probably be Billie Eilish, she is just the most refreshingly original creature out there right now. And if I had to pick a song to record with her, it’s a no-brainer that it would be Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” because where Cohen walks through his various versions of what HIS hallelujahs are, I see this largely as a relationship song, and there are two sides in every relationship, making this a song that really could, and arguably SHOULD, be a duet at some point. Do you have her number?

Can you talk about a particular book or film (or both) that has helped shape your sensibility as an artist?

Patrick: I could, but I think life experience plays a lot more into what shapes us as artists, and people in general. Real love, heartbreak, injuries and trauma both your own, as well as what you’ve witnessed firsthand, drug experimentation, surviving dangerous close calls, having loved ones die, etc…these things change you in subtle ways that all become puzzle pieces that form a whole. If I were to illustrate that in an extreme example for instance, anyone that has gone to war is indelibly changed as a person. The horrors that they’ve witnessed and/or participated in—that shit leaves a mark. Oh fuck, that’s not what you asked at all, was it. OK, Lost in Translation is a movie that left a mark on me. As for reading, I’ve deep dived into Eastern philosophy, The Art of War, the Tao Te Ching, the I Ching—those texts change your way of thinking for sure, which impacts your art.

If you could have a conversation with anyone who’s living or dead, who would it be and why?

Patrick: Tom Waits. Period. My absolute hero as a songwriter—the way he tells a story, the way he describes even ordinary things makes them extraordinary. If you’re not familiar and want a crash course in creative writing, listen to “9^th & Hennepin,” it’s a fucking lyrical masterpiece.

Here’s an excerpt:

“They all started out with bad directions.
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear, one for every year he’s away,  she said.
Such a crumbling beauty. Ah, there’s nothin’ wrong with her a hundred dollars won’t fix.
She has that razor sadness that only gets worse with the clang and the thunder of the Southern Pacific going by.
And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet, till you’re full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin, and you spill out over the side to anyone who’ll listen.”

What was the first concert you attended and what was it like?

Patrick: Springsteen, 1984, the Born in the U.S.A tour. It was the first time I’d experienced a “Din.” I’m not even sure that’s the correct word, but it’s when the roar of the crowd overwhelms you. Takes your breath away. I wasn’t ready for it, which was even better. It was like a tidal wave of euphoria, and I knew that all I wanted to do from that moment on was to spend the rest of my life trying to impact the world in that way. To create something that would overtake a crowd of people in a way that would sweep them away to someplace else, if even just for a short time, before they return to their normal lives. Still trying😉.

Which two bands would you like to appear on a dream bill with?

Patrick: Probably The Ramones and Social Distortion. I think we’d fit nicely into a sandwich like that.

Which famous historical event would you like to have witnessed and why?

Patrick: This isn’t actually the answer to your question, but I’ll tie it back to life experiences that leave a mark. A few days after 9/11, my wife and I went to NYC,

really just to try and take in the scope of what we’d just seen on TV. And it was during a VERY short time as they were still getting their heads around the whole thing, and the area hadn’t really been fully cordoned off, so you could pretty much walk right up to that smoldering pile of twisted steel and ash. For blocks and blocks as you approached, literally everything was covered in a light-colored white-grey ash—it was in the air, it was everywhere. And I remember being struck like a gut-punch when that massive, ragged, towering piece of steel skeletal framing came into view, the one everyone had previously seen on TV. It felt like the wind got knocked out of me and it was a brief struggle to find my breath. Seeing that with my own eyes added a gravity to the event that absolutely left a mark on me.

Which song do you crank up on Friday night to kick off the weekend?

Patrick: If I’m not playing a show, my wife Christina and I like to settle in on a Friday night, and spend the weekend cuddling with our dogs and Netflix. Boring? Fuck you.😉

If you overheard one fan talking to another after leaving a Bones show, what would you like to hear them say about the gig?

Patrick: I’m obsessed with what people think of my lyrics, they are everything to me. So when people notice and talk about them, I feel like I’ve left a small mark. That is what I live for.

Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?

Patrick: Gun to my head, Tom Waits…..Either Rain Dogs or Mule Variations, depending on the week. Gun NOT to my head, there are so many more wonderful “Honorable Mentions,” like Nick Cave’s No More Shall We Part, Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking, Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes, Sugar’s Copper Blue, PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, Juliette & The Licks’ Four on the Floor, Cheap Trick’s Heaven Tonight—seriously, I could do this all fucking day!)

What song would you like played at your funeral?

Patrick: Anything by ME.😉

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