Princess Goes first met onstage over a decade ago while performing in the award-winning rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The band — composed of vocalist, lyricist, musician, and actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lazarus), keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen (Blondie, Cyndi Lauper), and drummer Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers, Morningwood) — had so much fun pretending to be in a band together that, when the show closed, they decided to start one for real.
Since then, the avant-indie supergroup has released an EP and two full-length albums, with a third full-length due later this year.
Today, Princess Goes shares “Stranger,” an epic, cinematic introduction to the band’s newest chapter and an ode to personal evolution and human connection.
“Stranger” is song about meeting each other with kindness and curiosity,”the group explains. “A seminal 90’s grunge bass intro lead us into 90’s Britpop dance blur. We finally meet each other in the massive, epiphanic, glorious, and soaring finale, no longer strangers, but as …. friends.”
“Stranger” by Princess Goes is out May 13, 2026.
PRINCESS GOES BIO:
Princess Goes is a band from New York City featuring Michael C. Hall (vocals), Matt Katz-Bohen (keys/synth/bass/guitar) Peter Yanowitz (vocals/drums/percussion/bass/guitar/synth). They met a dozen years ago on a Broadway Stage in wigs and make-up (and Michael in a dress), performing in the award winning rock musical, Hedwig & The Angry Inch. The 3 were having so much fun pretending to be in a band together that when the show closed a couple years later they decided to start their own. The first song they wrote, ‘Love American Style’, had an energy unique to their 3 distinct personalities, so they wrote another.. and then another, and soon they couldn’t stop writing songs together. When the dust settled there were 10-15 songs in that first burst and they thought, surely, some wild alchemy was at work here. A band was somehow forming underneath them, and they were curious enough so they went with it. Matt, Mike, and Peter came up with a name (originally Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum’), booked a show and made tee shirts.. To date, they have a debut EP and 2 full length albums out, with a 3rd full length due in 2026. They have played over a hundred shows worldwide and yet there is still something mysterious and under the radar about the group.
‘I think for each of us Princess came out of nowhere in our lives’, says drummer Peter Yanowitz. ‘We weren’t necessarily looking to start a band, We were just 3 friends being creative together. We had a space downtown in NYC where we all would meet up and make stuff. Eventually we made enough stuff to share with the world, and we haven’t looked back since.
We’ve also had the luxury of growing sort of under the radar. It’s been a slow burn to this process and we like that people stumble into discovering us and then stick with us. We have very dedicated fans. We’ve been able to do the work and develop our sound on our own terms without anyone trying to make us into something that we’re not. This new record feels like the culmination of every hour we’ve spent together working on Princess, almost like we needed to make all that other stuff just to be fortunate enough to be in a position to fully blossom and make this new record, which we feel is our most definitive work to date’.
