Today, the Los Angeles-based artist and GRAMMY-nominated songwriter Cailin Russo shares her brand new “fresh, fearless” (Billboard) EP DON’T. Listen to DON’T here.

Tonight also marks the first night of her “Bad Things” tour in Toronto, which came to fruition after the single took off last year when it prominently featured on Heated Rivalry’s closing scene; it’s since taken up residence in Spotify’s Viral 50 Chart. The tour has sold out Mercury Lounge in NYC and required a second night to be added in LA, and she’ll also play two dates with Arkells in Toronto. All dates below.

“Hot Tub Hotel” – prod. by Dave Hamelin (Beyoncé, Zara Larsson, 070 Shake) – comes with a new video today that features Cailin and Alissa Violet indulging in every sense, captured in lo-fi in uncanny hotel lighting in Cannes.

Of the track, Cailin says, “‘Hot Tub Hotel’ was one of the first songs I wrote after getting out of a three-year relationship. My close friend and collaborator Jesse Thomas wrote this with me and really helped me develop a sense of hope and release through the process on top of a beat Dave Hamelin so graciously sent over.

Of the video, she continues, “I had only really met Alissa Violet the morning we shot the bathtub scene, but we immediately hit it off in our energies amplified each other. We shot the video on a MacBook in a bathtub and on her digital camera in the garden of a castle in Cannes and Brandon Mosquera cut it all together a week ago. The video feels like the forces of two unhinged high energy girls colliding.”

Watch the “Hot Tub Hotel” visualizer here

Lead-up singles include “Take Me Home,” a grunge-pop plea for affection but ventures to show off the infallible vocal chops on the artist, powered by a lustful yearning that “Bad Things” helped establish as a Cailin Russo signature and inspired by the American cowboy essence of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” as well as Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA,” and  “I Can’t Help You Now,”  a balladic bloodletting propelled by a sultry downtempo pulse reminiscent of Portishead. The EP’s rounded out by “Last Night” rproduced by Andrew Goldstein (Britney Spears, Blink-182, Yungblud).

With the influx of millions of new listeners (290% increase in total streams on Spotify, 279% increase on Apple, 1660% increase in Shazams, and millions of views on socials) appearances atop various charts (Spotify Viral 50, Billboard Emerging Artists, Shazam Most Viral), a grindr collab, and the attendant viral TikTok explanation, the surprise success of “Bad Things” has served as a table-setter for a year of artistic reinvention.

This overdue notoriety is just the latest twist in an artistic career that has continually defied convention. Cailin’s own distinct projects — including her fiery debut House with a Pool and the restlessly inventive INFLUX — have allowed her to take her combination of pop futurism, and punk poise to top festivals (Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds) and on tour with Shygirl and Madison Beer. Adjacently, She’s recently been featured in Vogue, Wonderland, & more for her hand in the fashion side of things.

Her one-offs have had fascinating ripple effects: In 2025, her song “Triple It” became a TikTok sensation, with the likes of Julia Fox, Ellie Goulding, and Suki Waterhouse all posting videos of themselves singing along. In 2021, she grabbed a GRAMMY nomination as a co-writer on Kanye West and The Weeknd’s “Hurricane.”

Cailin was already on the radar of pop luminaries like Rosalía and Addison Rae, but with the explosion of interest around “Bad Things,” 2026 is looking like a level-up year for an artist whose marriage of pop sensibility, imperious attitude, and genre-fluid sonics is ready for the moment.