Lonnie Gunn with new single ‘Good Girls Go to Heaven’

Today sees Lonnie Gunn join the Toast Press roster, alongside the release of her gripping new self-released single ‘Good Girls Go to Heaven’. Listen HERE.

Drenched in feedback and 90s-grunge nostalgia, the intoxicating new track stories the grief and resentments that grow during the transition from intimacy to strangers. Oscillating between sentimentality, bitterness, rage and regret – Lonnie’s stirring vocals are delivered with a whimsical eye-roll over pulsating, guitar-driven grunge-pop. Recorded last summer with Eden Joel and produced by Caleb Wright (Samia, Hippo Campus), the track is an exhilarating taste of the world she is building.

Speaking on the track, Lonnie shares:

 “Good Girls Go to Heaven reflects the eerie, painful realities of forcing yourself to be a stranger to someone you once knew intimately and being unable to let go. The song swallows all that frustration, yearning, and emotional repression and vomits it back out into a white-hot fuzz. The title itself is sort of an ironic remark about behaving in accordance with the ‘social guidelines’ instead of addressing the elephant in the room: the fact that this other person and I were once in love and can never unknow that feeling. Good Girls is a reveal of the subtext in the strained small talk and resisted eye contact. The final verses of the song act as a reluctant goodbye to the part of ourselves we once had with each other, or before each other, and will never have again.”

The release follows an imposing run of singles from ‘Dog In A Hot Car’, ‘Lucky Girl’ to most recent ‘lovebite’, each encapsulating a unique blend of what Gunn describes as “bubblegum grunge” – a fitting shorthand for music that fuses sugar-rush melodies with distortion, grit, and emotional volatility. Throughout these early tracks Gunn has steadily expanded her sonic palette, pushing past early expectations of softness into something louder, heavier and more self-assured. Her influences trace a lineage of uncompromising women and off-kilter icons – from Debbie Harry and Joan Jett through to Fiona Apple, Karen O and Mitski – alongside the scrappy textures of bands like Deerhunter, The Moldy Peaches and Elastica.

Gunn has steadily cultivated a devoted and growing fanbase, drawn to her unfiltered honesty and cathartic live performances which she showcased during a recent support run for TTSSFU. Tomorrow she steps onto her biggest stage yet, supporting Kim Gordon at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 14th April, before playing The Great Escape in Brighton on May 13th.

Born in the US and now based in Brighton, Lonnie is an artist carving out a world of her own – one that sits somewhere between saccharine and sordid, playful and unflinchingly raw. Raised in what she describes as a “static and boring” pocket of suburban New Jersey, music was a lifeline. Her father, a former new wave club DJ, and her sister – now in a Leeds-based noise rock band Skintern – helped shape a household where obsession and expression went hand in hand. As a self-professed “chubby emo kid”, Gunn found early refuge in music, singing constantly as a child, often improvising melodies before she had the words to match them.

By her teens, she was fronting an indie rock band, writing prolifically and even scoring short films with online collaborators. But it wasn’t until years later – following a period of personal upheaval spanning late 2024 into 2025 – that music shifted from something she did to something she needed. As her world fractured, songwriting became the one constant: a means of survival as much as self-expression.

Visually and conceptually, Lonnie Gunn exists in a world of “fuzzy static heaven” – something beautiful but slightly uncanny, where femininity, the body and surreal discomfort intertwine. It’s a space that mirrors her music: intimate yet abrasive, tender yet grotesque.

Still early in her journey, Gunn sees this moment not as a reinvention but a threshold. As she puts it, “I’m not a newborn baby, but it is my first day of school.”.

2026 Live Dates

April 14th – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London (Kim Gordon support)

April 19th – Green Door Store Garden Party x Lime Garden – Brighton

May 13th-16th – TGE 2026 – Brighton

September 12th – Escape to the City – St. Albans