Dan Pritchard

debut solo album MILLENNIAL MALAISE arriving summer 2025

About Dan

Raised around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Dan Pritchard was surrounded by music from the very beginning. His grandmother was a piano teacher who owned a music shop and his father was an amateur musician & technician. One of his earliest memories was dancing around to the Beatles’ timeless classic,  the White Album.  His father’s expansive vinyl collection filled with hundreds of records, from David Bowie to Tom Petty, spoke to his young soul. At age 9 he received his first guitar and started writing his first songs by the next year. Soon thereafter he began taking lessons on guitar & piano and would write tunes influenced by the alternative rock of Beck and Weezer. In high school he would front multiple groups, playing in talent shows and Battles of the Bands and recording his original songs for artistic publications He would enroll in Audio Engineering during college to continue to pursue his love for music with both technical and creative classes. Around this time, in late 2007 he would start his long running band The Modern Age, indie rock with both edge and groove. The group would gig around the tri-state area and release their first EP - How To Start A War in 2008. Their debut full length Following Routine would be released in 2010 featuring their much-loved puppet filled video for “Playing the Field”. Tired of small-town life Dan would briefly move to New York City, NY before moving across the country, tumbling to Los Angeles, California. There he would reboot the Modern Age and the new lineup would play around the SoCal region including at popular clubs such as the Satellite and El Cid. In 2014 they would release the Lies Don’t Looks So Good on You EP. From 2015-2016 the band would throw house shows with local and touring bands at their practice space, the Tower, in Echo Park. In 2017 they would release their 2nd LP - Upadana, featuring the hard rocking single “Car Culture”. After 5 years in the LA underground scene the band would dissolve in 2019. During the pandemic Dan continued to write new songs and learned how to program drums. In 2022, partially inspired by his massive band T-shirt collection, he would launch his YouTube channel, sharing his love of music by telling the stories of his favorite artists, sharing his personal top 10s & covering their songs while also creating videos for his original material. By 2024 he decided to take a break from producing videos to finally make another record. He started recording his debut solo album late that year and finished tracking in early 2025. Millennial Malaise would be entirely written, performed and produced in his basement studio in the mountains at the edge of Los Angeles county.  After a life time of songwriting Dan considers it a “Greatest Hits” type album, with all new songs, but ones that demonstrate his deep, introspective lyrics & stylistic versatility- from the piano rock rush of “Boom and Bust” to the swirling, meditative folk of “Off Key” the lead single “By My Side” is a funky sun-kissed strut about being in love and feeling grateful to be alive.  Millennial Malaise is a culmination of a life time of devotion to music and a feel-good record of spunky basement pop.