Jetty Bones

Kelsie Danielle Marie "Kelc" Galluzzo (born June 22, 1992), known by the stage name Jetty Bones, is an American indie pop singer-songwriter from Urbana, Ohio. Galluzzo released a series of EPs in the 2010s before signing to Rise Records and releasing her debut album, Push Back, in 2021. Her backing band over the years has included Katie Cole of DangerKids, RB Roe of Save Face, and Dylan Mattheisen of Tiny Moving Parts.

Early life Galluzzo grew up in Urbana, Ohio. She had voiced a desire to be an entertainer as early as kindergarten, and in elementary school she kept binders of song lyrics and attempted to start bands with classmates. She wrote her first song on guitar in seventh grade, The name Jetty Bones is a spoonerism of Betty Jones, a woman Galluzzo had known who had broken out of an all-girls Catholic school and who espoused the philosophy "If you aren’t happy where you are, you go somewhere else", which Galluzzo saw as encompassing the project's themes of growth and change. Her debut EP, Crucial States, was released independently on March 15, 2016, and was recorded with producer Joe McFaddin. Galluzzo contributed vocals to Tiny Moving Parts' 2016 album Celebrate (she would later do the same on their 2018 album Swell ), and frontman Dylan Mattheisen recommended her in an interview with BrooklynVegan.

In May 2017, Galluzzo performed at the second annual Steadfast Festival alongside The Classic Crime, Matt & Toby, and Kids in the Way. In October, she supported The Wonder Years on their Burst & Decay Acoustic Tour alongside Laura Stevenson and The Obsessives. She also did a short tour with Tiny Moving Parts, and in September she opened for Real Friends in Toledo, Ohio. The following month she released her second EP, Old Women, on October 6 through indie label Take This To Heart Records.

2018–2019: – (hyphen) and signing to Rise Records Galluzzo issued a combined vinyl pressing of Crucial States and Old Women via Take This To Heart in early March 2018. That spring, she toured with Knuckle Puck on a lineup including Free Throw, Hot Mulligan, and Boston Manor. Later in the year, she toured with The Dangerous Summer, The Early November, and Save Face throughout September and October.

On September 14, 2018, Galluzzo released the single "Bringing It Up", which would become the first single from her upcoming EP, – (pronounced "hyphen"). She chose the title to symbolize "something for [the listener] that isn't necessarily written out, just like the title." The following month, Galluzzo joined Mat Kerekes' solo tour alongside Jacob Sigman. Two more singles, "'Better'" and "To Know You...", were released in early February, and the EP was released on February 22, Later that month, Galluzzo joined the 2019 Sad Summer Festival, supporting headliners State Champs, Mayday Parade, The Maine, The Wonder Years, Mom Jeans, Stand Atlantic, and Just Friends alongside fellow supporting acts Grayscale, Worriers, Four Year Strong, Set It Off, Forever the Sickest Kids, and Every Avenue. In November, she joined the second leg of New Found Glory's "From The Screen To Your Stereo To Your Town Tour" alongside Hawthorne Heights and Free Throw.

On November 21, 2019, it was announced that Jetty Bones had signed to Rise Records, an event she commemorated by releasing a music video for "the part:", directed by Michael Herrick, to serve as an ending to the – era. Galluzzo remarked in a press statement that "Growing up in Ohio, we used to have this local scene saying about how the dream was to ‘live in Ohio, start a band, then sign to Rise Records'. Well, 12 years later, I finally get to say that those teenage dreams are a reality."

2020–present: Push Back Galluzzo was scheduled to support Tiny Moving Parts on their spring North American tour alongside Belmont and Capstan in March 2020, but the tour was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic; she instead began posting bonus content to her Patreon page. She had also been scheduled to support Stand Atlantic on their North American tour later in the year alongside Trash Boat and Super Whatevr. On October 9, she released a new single entitled "Taking Up Space", produced by John Fields and with an accompanying music video directed by Lindsey Byrnes and Dani Okon. The song was named by Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times as one of the 50 best songs of 2020.

On January 22, 2021, Galluzzo released another single and music video, "That's All", which was simultaneously revealed as the second single (after "Taking Up Space") from her upcoming Rise Records debut album, Push Back. She once again worked with Byrnes and Okon for the video. Push Back was released on February 26 via Rise Records, with Fields producing and featuring Heart Attack Man's Eric Egan on the song "Bad Time". In August she performed at the Sound Valley Summer Music Festival in Dayton alongside local acts including the Raging Nathans, Nightbeast, and K.Carter.

On March 3, 2023, Galluzzo released a new album, "Songs I Wrote Instead of Killing Myself (The Pandemos)".

On September 8, 2024, Galluzzo released a single, "Rain's Comin'".

Musical style Galluzzo's music has been variously identified as indie pop and indie rock, pop rock, Her style and vocals have been compared to Paramore, Alanis Morissette, Halsey, Carly Rae Jepsen, Kacey Musgraves, Tiny Moving Parts, Owen, and Julien Baker. Paige Pomerantz of Soundigest compared her vocals on Old Women to Hayley Williams and wrote "If Paramore and Tiny Moving Parts had a child, it would be named Jetty Bones."

Lyrics and themes In contrast to her often upbeat sound, Galluzzo's lyrics tend to explore darker themes of abuse, trauma, anxiety, depression, impostor syndrome, and suicidal thoughts. while "Taking Up Space" expresses Galluzzo's anxiety and impostor syndrome regarding her personal and professional success. She affirmed her queer identity on Twitter in March 2020, responding to being identified as an ally by tweeting "My publicly known heteronormative relationships do not mean I’m heterosexual. NOT BY A LONG SHOT," followed by a smile and a rainbow emoji.

Galluzzo is a non-denominational Christian and was raised Catholic. She got her first tattoo, an outline of the state of Ohio behind her left ear, while attending Cornerstone Festival in 2010. In 2014 she reviewed the Bombay Bicycle Club album So Long, See You Tomorrow for the music website Tuned Up. Following the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden, she participated in the Bernie Sanders mittens meme by tweeting photoshopped images of Sanders on various emo album covers. As of 2021, she works a day job as a barista in Ohio. in addition to being a mental health advocate.

Galluzzo was previously in a sexually abusive relationship, which she said caused her to feel isolated due to being too ashamed to tell friends and family. The experience has influenced many of her albums and in particular inspired the songs "Innocent Party" from Old Women and ""better"".

Galluzzo has struggled with depression and anxiety most of her life and began attending therapy at a young age. She noted that she was "fortunate enough to be part of a generation where the subject of mental health has become more normalized, but when I was in middle school and high school, that wasn’t an everyday topic of conversation." She experienced an episode of suicidal ideation on New Year's Eve in 2016, fed by loneliness stemming from her abusive relationship, and it was during this that she wrote the song "Bug Life" as an intended suicide note; it later became the final song on Push Back.

Discography

Albums

Push Back (2021; Rise) “Songs I Wrote Instead of Killing Myself: the Pandemos” (2023)

EPs

Crucial States (2016; independent) Old Women (2017; Take This To Heart) – (2019; Take This To Heart)

Singles

Music videos