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Mackeeper set cracked guitars, clipped samples, trap-derived drums, Auto-Tuned falsettos and shouted pop choruses inside short, restless arrangements. Believe You Me expands the porch-recorded looseness of Rock Candy into a live set that jumps between radio-rock weight and deliberately crooked digital pop.

More about Mackeeper

Brothers Miles Cohen and Nick Harwood grew up in Maryland’s Washington suburbs but now work between New York and Los Angeles. Miles came through rock bands while Nick DJed, wrote songs and directed visual work; their collision has placed Mackeeper in New York’s genre-agnostic indie-pop orbit, with releases through In Real Life Music and support from Blood Orange and Porches.

A story

When Miles Cohen was four, Nick Harwood made an “In Da Club”-style beat and recorded his little brother rapping over it as DJ White Shadow.

Playing

• 2026-11-07 · Pitchfork Avant-Garde · Café de la Danse · Café de la Danse
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Labels

Start here

• Believe You Me (2026) · In Real Life Music
  The full radio-rock and sample-pop collision
• Rock Candy (2026) · In Real Life Music
  Five compact songs built from sibling friction and porch sessions
• Oh Canada (2025) · In Real Life Music
  A voice-cracking early song about an unstable friend

Worked with

• Miles Cohen duo partner, vocalist and producer
• Nick Harwood duo partner, producer and video director
• Kim Petras co-wrote Holy Moses

For fans of

Porches, SOPHIE, Blood Orange, The Dare

Official links

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