Transviolet with Jagwar Twin and Lisa Heller at Club Dada

After a successful catfishing on a musician networking website, Sarah McTaggart began to collaborate with producer and bassist Mike Panek across the world, and over the internet writing the beginnings of what would eventually become Transviolet. From the very beginning, Transviolet has made a point to approach music differently. Like when they released their first single Girls Your Age, the band sent out 2,000 plain manilla envelopes to kids across the country containing a cassette tape that only said “play me”, not realizing that was pretty near to the exact plot of the horror movie SAW. Blogs and press outlets took notice, but no one cared nearly as much as the mothers across the country when they took to Facebook to demand answers, and threaten the band with legal action. It was hilarious. 24 hours later and ?Katy Perry? Tweeted out the song, a week later ?Harry Styles?. A flood of attention came to the band and they were thrown into the deep end that is the music industry. Writing with collaborators DreamLab (?Selena Gomez?, ?Miley Cyrus?, ?Nicki Minaj?…) Sam Hollander (Panic At the disco?, ?Fitz and the Tantrums?) ?Andrew Dawson? (?Kanye West?, ?Tyler the Creator?) and Nate Motte of 3OH!3, among many others, Transviolet put out two more EPs, seeing critical acclaim from countless press outlets.

– first-avenue.com