November 20, 2023 • 16 mins
Icona Pop FINALLY joins us on America's Dance 30 for the first time!
Celebrating their smash "Fall In Love" hitting #1 on the dance charts, Caroline & Aino share how the song was born, how many Vs there were of it before it was released, and what mistake they made while recording it!
We also get to know Icona Pop better w #FinkysFirsts!!
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Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
Celebrating their smash "Fall In Love" hitting #1 on the dance charts, Caroline & Aino share how the song was born, how many Vs there were of it before it was released, and what mistake they made while recording it!
We also get to know Icona Pop better w #FinkysFirsts!!
Find out about:
- what they first wanted to be growing up
- the first song they wrote
- where 'Icona Pop' came from, and if it was the first artist name they were gonna go with
- the first dance song that made them fall in love w EDM
- what first comes to mind when I say "Love"
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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(00:00):
Hold on, before we even startthis, Caroline, I got something for
you. Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday,
dear Caraline. Happy birthday two.Oh mine is the west thing ever.
(00:35):
Go ahead and make a wish andblow out your candle. Look at that.
Happy Birthday, Caroline, and I'mgonna sit here and eat the cupcake
right in front of it. No, I'm joking. I wouldn't do that
to you. Thank you for themost beautiful birthday song. If we haven't
need a third member in our group, we know that you got the boy
(00:56):
we know how to call. That'shilarious. Deal Deal Dance counting down the
biggest dance songs in the country.This is America's Dance thirty. I can't
(01:19):
believe that it has been ten yearssince I met you, guys, Icona
Pop, Welcome to America's Dance thirtyfor the first time. Thank you so
much? Like how ten years?How ten years? Where have you been?
Exactly? I have been? Iknow I've been here. Where have
(01:42):
you guys been? All over theworld We've been over well. Not only
congratulations on the ten year anniversary ofI Love It hitting number one. That
is amazing, but congratulations on FallenLove going number one. Thank you so
(02:04):
much, so much for us.Yeah, that is that is so we
are so happy. Yeah, becauseI mean coming out with this new album
clab Romantic and just being back inthe States, it just feels so good.
Now, is this your second numberone? Yeah? I think it's
(02:25):
a second I think so, Yeah, I think so. All I know
is we need to make it lessthan ten years in between your next number
one. All you know what,we're already writing on our new album,
so a lot of I kind ofpop me. It's going to keep coming
out. So and we might evenhave something coming out this year yep,
(02:50):
very soon. Actually, let's saysomething that I wasn't allowed. We won't
tell anybody. You mentioned that Idon't tell anyone. Well, I can't
wait to find out how fall inLove was born. But before that,
let's get to know Kona pop alittle better with Finky's first look at so.
(03:16):
I love finding out the origin storyof artists. I know that you
guys met in music school when youwere younger, but or excuse me,
you went to the same music school, but you met at a party afterwards,
right, yep? But was musicthe first thing that you guys wanted
to get into or was there somethingelse you wanted to be when you were
(03:38):
growing up. I think music wasthe main thing. I wanted to be
an astronaut and a musician. Yeah, and I'm scared of heights and I
hate like small I have like plusreaphobia, I'm clausophobic. So so music
it became it was the only option. Actually, I don't know. I
(03:59):
know I could see you on themoon, right, yeah, and what
about you, Caroline? No,But I mean music was always my first
choice. I don't really remember,like I think we just we watched a
lot of MTV, listened to alot of music when we were young,
and that's when I decided, thisis what I want to do. But
(04:23):
the road how I wanted to doit and what kind of music that was
like really trying and like exploring.Gotcha? Now, as I mentioned,
you guys met at a party justrandomly, And is it true that you
guys decided to create that kind ofpop like the next day? It is?
It is? It happened so fast, It was so quick. It
(04:45):
was almost like put a ring onit, you know, like that,
because it was like we I mean, I don't want this to go away.
So okay, we're a band.Let's book our first show. Even
though we didn't have the songs,we just needed like a goal, let's
need and we were sitting in thesofa and we were like, oh,
okay, this is this is sucha good energy. Should we just start
a band? As we wrote liketwo songs yeah, the first time we
(05:10):
tried, which we really love.Yeah, but writing music can be so
vulnerable. Sometimes you can be alittle bit embarrassed and like you're showing your
ideas to someone and maybe that persondon't understand your language of writing. But
with Caroline, it was just likeit was this magical thing and I felt
(05:30):
directly like I can't let this goand it's amazing. Fourteen years after we're
sitting here. That is so incredible. Now talking about songs early on,
do you remember the first song thatyou guys wrote. Oh yeah, Sheriff
came to town on a big blackhorse and it was like this tarantee.
(05:50):
We was all this b B Bcame to town. You challenge you maybe
the best man. We It waslike changing meaning sugar babes kind of Yeah,
(06:13):
it was. It was actually reallycool and we called it death Pop
because yeah, we were death Jar. That is amazing. Did you guys
actually put that song out? No, we produced it, and it's somewhere
in our old computers. So Ithink maybe it should come out like leak
it like a treat for our fasts. That would be so much fun.
That would be incredible a couple oftimes. Yeah, that's awesome. Now,
(06:38):
when you guys were trying to decidefor a name, was I kinda
Pop the first name you guys decidedon or were there other names you were
going to go with. Well,we weren't nameless for a while, and
we realized just because we booked ourfirst shows early on, We're like,
okay, we need like flyers.How are we going to do this?
We need a name. But thenit was actually my mom. She was
(07:00):
at this dinner with her Italian friendsand they were talking about like that we
started a band, and they werelike, oh, so they're gonna be
the next pop Icons, which isIcona Pop or Econa Pop Italy in Italian,
and so she was like that soundedcool. So she sent us a
bunch of names, which one ofthem were Icona Pop, and we just
(07:21):
felt like okay, where I kindof pop that felt like immediately right,
yeah, so thanks Mom, Yeah, but it too, it's really nameless
for like at least a year.Oh wow. And I mean now we're
I Kona pop and that feels sonatural. It feels like we've always been
a kind of pop yeah, Konaand pop. Yeah. So does Mom
(07:42):
get like ten percent residuals off thateverything there? We're just like we're just
doing a basement that's hilarious now.Of course, besides your original like kind
(08:07):
of pop stuff, you guys haveworked with some amazing artists. I mean
Afrojack, Galantis, Tiesto, SteveAoki. The list just goes on and
on. But do you remember thefirst dance song that made you guys fall
in love with d m oh?I mean we grew up in the nineties
(08:28):
and in the nineties the dance musicwas just blowing, especially in the UK.
So I remember like Starred as themusic sounds better with you, yeah,
I mean the whole first stuff punkalbum. Also, like there was
a little bit more like punk yourdance music, like Fire started with Prodigy
(08:50):
that it makes you want to justrage whatever, Like Ah's such a cool
coumbo as well, like it was, you can really do whatever you wanted
with Towns music. But I thinklike one of those like super special track
that was still DJ is Love.Yeah yeah, and I means so like
(09:18):
timeless and in Trinity as well.Just for us to do a collab with
someone that we just admire so muchhas been also such a fun and amazing
thing. Yeah, we feel veryhonored. That's so awesome. And it's
ironic that you mentioned Prodigy. Soover the weekend, I was at e
DC Orlando with a friend of mineand I was talking about seeing Prodigy.
(09:43):
I think it was Ultra like earlyon and they were performing at Ultra,
and I'm like, I have toget into the crowd because it's Prodigy,
Like I mean, it's just youdon't have to be in the crowd.
That's not a concert where you standon the side sleeping on some wine.
(10:03):
You just have to get in there. And maybe it's like you don't want
to be in the booth, youwant to be in the crowd. Yeah,
And you know this is totally skippingahead, but I love the romantic
videos that you guys are posting becauseyou get in with the crowd and dance
with your fans. That's so suchan amazing energy. They give us too
(10:24):
much. We can't handle it.Sometimes we're like tonight, maybe like at
these age is too high, maybewe can't get down. And then it's
just in some way we just rolldown. Yeah, I found ourselves in
the crowd. Yeah. Sometimes it'simpossible, like you said, when you're
like on a really high stage.But that's why we also love doing the
(10:46):
smaller venues because then it can almosttouch people. Yeah, and that's where
we come from. So we lovebig venues, but we also love doing
like smaller club stuff. Yeah.Those videos give me life. They're awesome.
Well, finally, in thinks firstin honor of fall in Love going
number one, when I say,when I say love, what's the first
thing that comes to mind to you? Guys, Caroline, don't think about
(11:11):
it, Okay, I think aboutwarmth. Oh, I love that,
I know. I think about ourbabies, our baby baby. Yeah,
babies. Yeah, and they loveeach other and it's just wildest, the
craziest babies, and it's it's justa love bomb. Like just to be
(11:35):
able to like have your best friendhaving a child and they love each other.
I mean, they didn't have achoice thing to be, like a
female artist in this industry, havea child, still be touring. I
just feel so much love, solove. That's amazing. Well, let's
talk about this smash. How wasfall in Love born? It was born
(11:56):
in Sweden. Yeah, like thestudio where we wrote our first stuff.
And it was funny because we werein the beginning the melody was different.
Yeah, just the time a bit, and it was just on that the
like we were just playing around andthen we made a mistake and everyone was
(12:18):
like, wait, that sounded socool because it just gives it that unexpected
feeling. Yeah, so we decidedto keep it and yeah, that song
it was a happy mistake. Yeah, it was a happy mistake and it
happened so naturally and we had somuch fun writing it. Yeah, and
(12:43):
we were just it was a girl. There was like two girls with us.
We wrote a lot with Pug andHusky, so it was the first
session we had with them. Wewere only women in the studio, which
was like such a cool thing.And then also like, I mean that
song is about when you fall sohard to do someone. It's like running
(13:05):
straight into a brick wall and you'relike, oh, I almost feel nauseous.
I don't know what to do withmyself. I love this feeling,
but it's also a little bit scary. Is this love? Like is this
how it's supposed to be feeling?Because I know it can relate to that,
absolutely, but I'm just curious whatwas the mistake? It was something
(13:26):
with this is how it feels like? When? Like was it there?
Yeah, it's like the weird notein the in the chorus was like just
like it's more like a classical cleanernot Yeah, it was just different before
and we were having we were like, yeah, this is cool, but
(13:46):
where should we go? And likethen when we just stumbled over this thing,
we were like, oh, okay, this is the little thing that
the song was missing, like itwas a little bit too perfect before.
It's so incredible how the best thingscome out of mistakes, happy mistakes.
(14:07):
Absolutely. Now. How long agodid you guys start working on it in
Sweden? I think we started abouta year ago. Yeah, wow,
yeah, but we knew right awaythat we wanted it, like this is
going to be the main track onthe album, So we had it for
a long time just waiting. Yeah, and we were like we are going
(14:28):
to show you soon, and wealso like this. We wrote the song,
we did new verses on it becauseit felt I'm done. Sometimes it's
important to just let songs just belike resting for a while and take a
pass from it and then go back. That's feel like our magic resip and
then it can hear like, ohit's done or it's not done, but
(14:48):
yeah, yeah, we've been workingon it for about six months maybe yeah,
and talking about letting it rest kindof leads into my next question.
I always love finding out how manydifferent v's there are of a song,
from when you start working on it, all the tweaking that goes on to
when you finally put it out.Do you guys remember what the final v
(15:11):
was of fall in Love? Imean, wow, it must have been
like there like so many, somany different ones I feel sorry for.
We work a lot with an amazingproducer called Yarro, and he's been like
the main producer on an our albumand he's just so his work ethic is
(15:31):
crazy. Yeah, so we're alsoa little bit spoiled. We're like,
we want a new version, wewant to do like this and like and
he just makes it happen. SoI think some songs have like a crazy
amount. Yeah, it's almost embarrassing, Like version. The worst thing is
(15:52):
if you're like, let's go backto the front. I like this one
hundred and first version, but let'sgo back to the first. That is
hilarious. Well, congratulations on thisnumber one, Congratulations on the album,
(16:14):
on the tour, it is soawesome seeing you guys, Iconopop, thank
you so much for your time withus on America's Dance Years so much.
America's Dancer Counting down the biggest dancesongs in the country, America's Dance thirty
Hold on, before we even startthis, Caroline, I got something for
you. Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday,
dear Caraline. Happy birthday two.Oh mine is the west thing ever.
(00:35):
Go ahead and make a wish andblow out your candle. Look at that.
Happy Birthday, Caroline, and I'mgonna sit here and eat the cupcake
right in front of it. No, I'm joking. I wouldn't do that
to you. Thank you for themost beautiful birthday song. If we haven't
need a third member in our group, we know that you got the boy
(00:56):
we know how to call. That'shilarious. Deal Deal Dance counting down the
biggest dance songs in the country.This is America's Dance thirty. I can't
(01:19):
believe that it has been ten yearssince I met you, guys, Icona
Pop, Welcome to America's Dance thirtyfor the first time. Thank you so
much? Like how ten years?How ten years? Where have you been?
Exactly? I have been? Iknow I've been here. Where have
(01:42):
you guys been? All over theworld We've been over well. Not only
congratulations on the ten year anniversary ofI Love It hitting number one. That
is amazing, but congratulations on FallenLove going number one. Thank you so
(02:04):
much, so much for us.Yeah, that is that is so we
are so happy. Yeah, becauseI mean coming out with this new album
clab Romantic and just being back inthe States, it just feels so good.
Now, is this your second numberone? Yeah? I think it's
(02:25):
a second I think so, Yeah, I think so. All I know
is we need to make it lessthan ten years in between your next number
one. All you know what,we're already writing on our new album,
so a lot of I kind ofpop me. It's going to keep coming
out. So and we might evenhave something coming out this year yep,
(02:50):
very soon. Actually, let's saysomething that I wasn't allowed. We won't
tell anybody. You mentioned that Idon't tell anyone. Well, I can't
wait to find out how fall inLove was born. But before that,
let's get to know Kona pop alittle better with Finky's first look at so.
(03:16):
I love finding out the origin storyof artists. I know that you
guys met in music school when youwere younger, but or excuse me,
you went to the same music school, but you met at a party afterwards,
right, yep? But was musicthe first thing that you guys wanted
to get into or was there somethingelse you wanted to be when you were
(03:38):
growing up. I think music wasthe main thing. I wanted to be
an astronaut and a musician. Yeah, and I'm scared of heights and I
hate like small I have like plusreaphobia, I'm clausophobic. So so music
it became it was the only option. Actually, I don't know. I
(03:59):
know I could see you on themoon, right, yeah, and what
about you, Caroline? No,But I mean music was always my first
choice. I don't really remember,like I think we just we watched a
lot of MTV, listened to alot of music when we were young,
and that's when I decided, thisis what I want to do. But
(04:23):
the road how I wanted to doit and what kind of music that was
like really trying and like exploring.Gotcha? Now, as I mentioned,
you guys met at a party justrandomly, And is it true that you
guys decided to create that kind ofpop like the next day? It is?
It is? It happened so fast, It was so quick. It
(04:45):
was almost like put a ring onit, you know, like that,
because it was like we I mean, I don't want this to go away.
So okay, we're a band.Let's book our first show. Even
though we didn't have the songs,we just needed like a goal, let's
need and we were sitting in thesofa and we were like, oh,
okay, this is this is sucha good energy. Should we just start
a band? As we wrote liketwo songs yeah, the first time we
(05:10):
tried, which we really love.Yeah, but writing music can be so
vulnerable. Sometimes you can be alittle bit embarrassed and like you're showing your
ideas to someone and maybe that persondon't understand your language of writing. But
with Caroline, it was just likeit was this magical thing and I felt
(05:30):
directly like I can't let this goand it's amazing. Fourteen years after we're
sitting here. That is so incredible. Now talking about songs early on,
do you remember the first song thatyou guys wrote. Oh yeah, Sheriff
came to town on a big blackhorse and it was like this tarantee.
(05:50):
We was all this b B Bcame to town. You challenge you maybe
the best man. We It waslike changing meaning sugar babes kind of Yeah,
(06:13):
it was. It was actually reallycool and we called it death Pop
because yeah, we were death Jar. That is amazing. Did you guys
actually put that song out? No, we produced it, and it's somewhere
in our old computers. So Ithink maybe it should come out like leak
it like a treat for our fasts. That would be so much fun.
That would be incredible a couple oftimes. Yeah, that's awesome. Now,
(06:38):
when you guys were trying to decidefor a name, was I kinda
Pop the first name you guys decidedon or were there other names you were
going to go with. Well,we weren't nameless for a while, and
we realized just because we booked ourfirst shows early on, We're like,
okay, we need like flyers.How are we going to do this?
We need a name. But thenit was actually my mom. She was
(07:00):
at this dinner with her Italian friendsand they were talking about like that we
started a band, and they werelike, oh, so they're gonna be
the next pop Icons, which isIcona Pop or Econa Pop Italy in Italian,
and so she was like that soundedcool. So she sent us a
bunch of names, which one ofthem were Icona Pop, and we just
(07:21):
felt like okay, where I kindof pop that felt like immediately right,
yeah, so thanks Mom, Yeah, but it too, it's really nameless
for like at least a year.Oh wow. And I mean now we're
I Kona pop and that feels sonatural. It feels like we've always been
a kind of pop yeah, Konaand pop. Yeah. So does Mom
(07:42):
get like ten percent residuals off thateverything there? We're just like we're just
doing a basement that's hilarious now.Of course, besides your original like kind
(08:07):
of pop stuff, you guys haveworked with some amazing artists. I mean
Afrojack, Galantis, Tiesto, SteveAoki. The list just goes on and
on. But do you remember thefirst dance song that made you guys fall
in love with d m oh?I mean we grew up in the nineties
(08:28):
and in the nineties the dance musicwas just blowing, especially in the UK.
So I remember like Starred as themusic sounds better with you, yeah,
I mean the whole first stuff punkalbum. Also, like there was
a little bit more like punk yourdance music, like Fire started with Prodigy
(08:50):
that it makes you want to justrage whatever, Like Ah's such a cool
coumbo as well, like it was, you can really do whatever you wanted
with Towns music. But I thinklike one of those like super special track
that was still DJ is Love.Yeah yeah, and I means so like
(09:18):
timeless and in Trinity as well.Just for us to do a collab with
someone that we just admire so muchhas been also such a fun and amazing
thing. Yeah, we feel veryhonored. That's so awesome. And it's
ironic that you mentioned Prodigy. Soover the weekend, I was at e
DC Orlando with a friend of mineand I was talking about seeing Prodigy.
(09:43):
I think it was Ultra like earlyon and they were performing at Ultra,
and I'm like, I have toget into the crowd because it's Prodigy,
Like I mean, it's just youdon't have to be in the crowd.
That's not a concert where you standon the side sleeping on some wine.
(10:03):
You just have to get in there. And maybe it's like you don't want
to be in the booth, youwant to be in the crowd. Yeah,
And you know this is totally skippingahead, but I love the romantic
videos that you guys are posting becauseyou get in with the crowd and dance
with your fans. That's so suchan amazing energy. They give us too
(10:24):
much. We can't handle it.Sometimes we're like tonight, maybe like at
these age is too high, maybewe can't get down. And then it's
just in some way we just rolldown. Yeah, I found ourselves in
the crowd. Yeah. Sometimes it'simpossible, like you said, when you're
like on a really high stage.But that's why we also love doing the
(10:46):
smaller venues because then it can almosttouch people. Yeah, and that's where
we come from. So we lovebig venues, but we also love doing
like smaller club stuff. Yeah.Those videos give me life. They're awesome.
Well, finally, in thinks firstin honor of fall in Love going
number one, when I say,when I say love, what's the first
thing that comes to mind to you? Guys, Caroline, don't think about
(11:11):
it, Okay, I think aboutwarmth. Oh, I love that,
I know. I think about ourbabies, our baby baby. Yeah,
babies. Yeah, and they loveeach other and it's just wildest, the
craziest babies, and it's it's justa love bomb. Like just to be
(11:35):
able to like have your best friendhaving a child and they love each other.
I mean, they didn't have achoice thing to be, like a
female artist in this industry, havea child, still be touring. I
just feel so much love, solove. That's amazing. Well, let's
talk about this smash. How wasfall in Love born? It was born
(11:56):
in Sweden. Yeah, like thestudio where we wrote our first stuff.
And it was funny because we werein the beginning the melody was different.
Yeah, just the time a bit, and it was just on that the
like we were just playing around andthen we made a mistake and everyone was
(12:18):
like, wait, that sounded socool because it just gives it that unexpected
feeling. Yeah, so we decidedto keep it and yeah, that song
it was a happy mistake. Yeah, it was a happy mistake and it
happened so naturally and we had somuch fun writing it. Yeah, and
(12:43):
we were just it was a girl. There was like two girls with us.
We wrote a lot with Pug andHusky, so it was the first
session we had with them. Wewere only women in the studio, which
was like such a cool thing.And then also like, I mean that
song is about when you fall sohard to do someone. It's like running
(13:05):
straight into a brick wall and you'relike, oh, I almost feel nauseous.
I don't know what to do withmyself. I love this feeling,
but it's also a little bit scary. Is this love? Like is this
how it's supposed to be feeling?Because I know it can relate to that,
absolutely, but I'm just curious whatwas the mistake? It was something
(13:26):
with this is how it feels like? When? Like was it there?
Yeah, it's like the weird notein the in the chorus was like just
like it's more like a classical cleanernot Yeah, it was just different before
and we were having we were like, yeah, this is cool, but
(13:46):
where should we go? And likethen when we just stumbled over this thing,
we were like, oh, okay, this is the little thing that
the song was missing, like itwas a little bit too perfect before.
It's so incredible how the best thingscome out of mistakes, happy mistakes.
(14:07):
Absolutely. Now. How long agodid you guys start working on it in
Sweden? I think we started abouta year ago. Yeah, wow,
yeah, but we knew right awaythat we wanted it, like this is
going to be the main track onthe album, So we had it for
a long time just waiting. Yeah, and we were like we are going
(14:28):
to show you soon, and wealso like this. We wrote the song,
we did new verses on it becauseit felt I'm done. Sometimes it's
important to just let songs just belike resting for a while and take a
pass from it and then go back. That's feel like our magic resip and
then it can hear like, ohit's done or it's not done, but
(14:48):
yeah, yeah, we've been workingon it for about six months maybe yeah,
and talking about letting it rest kindof leads into my next question.
I always love finding out how manydifferent v's there are of a song,
from when you start working on it, all the tweaking that goes on to
when you finally put it out.Do you guys remember what the final v
(15:11):
was of fall in Love? Imean, wow, it must have been
like there like so many, somany different ones I feel sorry for.
We work a lot with an amazingproducer called Yarro, and he's been like
the main producer on an our albumand he's just so his work ethic is
(15:31):
crazy. Yeah, so we're alsoa little bit spoiled. We're like,
we want a new version, wewant to do like this and like and
he just makes it happen. SoI think some songs have like a crazy
amount. Yeah, it's almost embarrassing, Like version. The worst thing is
(15:52):
if you're like, let's go backto the front. I like this one
hundred and first version, but let'sgo back to the first. That is
hilarious. Well, congratulations on thisnumber one, Congratulations on the album,
(16:14):
on the tour, it is soawesome seeing you guys, Iconopop, thank
you so much for your time withus on America's Dance Years so much.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.