Press:

“Thee Headliners is pretty perfect music to stomp around in big boots to—a little bit post-punk, a little bit country, a little bit R&B, a little bit psychobilly and a whole lot of rock, they have an infectiously dirty, chaotic sound.”
Ruth Brown - Willamette Week

"Garage Americana Powerhouse."
AP Kyzrya - Willamette Week

"The band was first recommended to me, along with Pure Country Gold, at October's Garagefest while discussing local bands to rival the scene in Memphis..."
awmercy - quickcritmusic

“...Not surprisingly, the best cuts off Rain & Blood are lively dive bar rock n' roll. The gruff JT Halmfilst and powerful Holly Hotbox shout it out over a charging riff on "Sketch City" while the organ bounces on girl group-loving "Uplifter '09" and whirls "Sourpuss" up into a go-going frenzy.”
awmercy - quickcritmusic

“...Their second full-length, Rain & Blood, out this year on Starcleaner Records, was heralded as a truly strange and glorious hodgepodge of sounds. If only more heart-wrenching breakups led to such musical glory."”
Maranda Bish - PORTLAND MERCURY

"In an ever-popular male-female duo, Holly lays out the drumbeats and JT plays guitars, in a caustic mix of the various genres they love; this includes rockabilly, punk, surf and Americana..."
Maranda Bish - PORTLAND MERCURY

"This record has more twists and turns than a dang rat maze...like a band trying to cover a mix tape someone gave them in the late '60s (if tapes were around back then). Rain&Blood is good and if you're into country-influenced DIY rock...you should pick it up."
(FS) - MAXIMUM ROCK & ROLL

"The album kicks the listener upside the head on track one and never lets up...(it) has remarkable continuity and intensity from track to track... The listener feels like they are in the room with the band."
Motor Jeffries - Ourpdx.org

"the LP dredges up the darkest corners of American music, coming up with something that I could call gothi-blues-abilly... a punk mentality mining the depths of garage, country, and R&B with very blunt instruments, it's clear how all these different musical genres are intertwined..."
NED LANNAMANN - Portland Mercury

"This Portland, Ore., garage-folk hybrid trio shuffles up and down the AM radio dial circa 1965, alternating between slightly dissonant snorts of rock, R&B, and country. Their new sophomore LP, Rain & Blood (Starcleaner), is chock-full of left-field hooks and strange energy."
Greg Beets - AUSTIN CHRONICLE

"You're going to need to pace yourself this weekend. But it won't be easy with Thee Headliners flying full throttle... Portland's finest, hoarsest practitioners of rockabilly goon-punk, Thee Headliners are too dirty to play smart and too smart to play dirty."
-NL - Portland Mercury

“Holly Morgan and Jeremy Terry sound like a whiskey bar waltz between Johnny Cash and June Carter as they double-fist their vice of heartache while crooning lines like: "You gotta be shit-faced/When you tell me you love me."”
EM BROWNLOWE - Portland Mercury

"Wearing its influences proudly, from pre-rock Americana’s folk and country roots to ’60s soul; from jazz and murder ballads to garage rock, the band’s sound is like a snowball effect of the past 90 years of American music—all rolled into one distortion-heavy package."
AP KRYZA - Willamette Week