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Heavy Looks is a dynamic power pop rock band based out of Madison, WI. Founding members Dirk Gunderson and Roz Greiert met in Stevens through the college music scene. After school, both moved to Madison in hopes of finding creative job opportunities but found themselves caught in the middle of a recession. To break up the monotony of working low paying soul-sucking nine-to-fives, they started writing and playing music together.

Named after a Romeo and Juliet quote, Heavy Looks’ lyrics connect with the same forlorn feelings as the famous Shakespeare play evokes – feelings of love, feelings of loss, and feeling stuck in a mundane existence. By contrast, the melodies and rhythms conjure an optimistic outlook with hook-laden guitar lines and driving drumbeats. Melding Dirk's pop sensibilities and bright guitar with Roz's raw vocals and grunge riffs, they form a unique flavor of indie rock that packs heat.

In 2014, Heavy Looks released their debut EP, Senses Growing Dull, and made their presence known in the Madison music scene. Since then, the band has released two more albums, Waste It Right (2015) and Apathy (2022), and have opened for several notable national acts, including Curtis Harding, Gin Blossoms, The Posies, The New Pornographers, Palehound, Mannequin Pussy, Jeffrey Lewis and Screaming Females.

Live, the band is an energetic force, trading vocal leads with ease and tapping into something that feels genuinely powerful. They released a 4-song EP, No Holds Barred, on June 19th, 2026. Stream and listen now!

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No Holds Barred EP

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No Holds Barred is a 4-song EP released on June 19th, 2026. It's the first new music Heavy Looks' has released in 4 years. Available for download and on compact disc. Songs 1 & 3 written by Rosalind Greiert Songs 2 Read more

No Holds Barred is a 4-song EP released on June 19th, 2026. It's the first new music Heavy Looks' has released in 4 years. Available for download and on compact disc.

Songs 1 & 3 written by Rosalind Greiert Songs 2 & 4 written by Dirk Gunderson

All songs arranged and recorded on album by: Rosalind Greiert – Vocals, Guitar Dirk Gunderson – Vocals, Guitar Jarad Olson – Bass, Additional vocals Shawn Pierce – Drums, Additional vocals

All songs recorded and mixed by Audrey Martinovich Audio for the Arts, Madison, WI

All songs mastered by Justin Perkins Mystery Room Mastering, Madison, WI

Album artwork by Dirk Gunderson

©2026 Heavy Looks all rights reserved

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Apathy

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Fierce sneers glaring with teeth-baring defiance, smiling, dark alley vipers Heavy Looks roll up their sleeves and put their foot down. Weighing in with side-eye piledrivers and streetwise desires, the band’s latest Read more

Fierce sneers glaring with teeth-baring defiance, smiling, dark alley vipers Heavy Looks roll up their sleeves and put their foot down. Weighing in with side-eye piledrivers and streetwise desires, the band’s latest release unleashes armored hearts ripe in righteous soundbites and chip-on-the-shoulder poetry. Tough-minded drive demanding romance in cruise-control hopes and gate-crashing thrash, “Apathy,” grabs confrontational confessions by the collar wrestling sketchy tempests with soda-shop doo-wop inside double-fisted kiss-offs, deadpan emo anthems dipped in Phil Spector gloom and hefty basement-rock chops churning discerning earworms into licorice-twisted bubblegum. Packed in bewitching grit, bent venting and greaser freak-outs, the foursome swerve in go-go booted bop cast in metallic hooks and mechanical abandon, cathartic go-carts on a rock ‘n roll roller-coaster steering between gleeful delirium and numbed noir. - John Noid, Maximum Ink

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