Nashville’s Katie Schecter releases the next single from her upcoming album Empress with the suspenseful, swinging tete-a-tete ‘Hide My Weapons.’ Co-written with Nick Bockrath, her husband and lead guitarist of Cage the Elephant, who is currently on tour supporting Oasis, the pairing is a portrait of the modern rock n roll family. “A match made in heaven, or a match made in hell,” Schecter makes the case that real love is both.

While unconventional to some, Schecter and Bockrath’s family unit suits them perfectly. Their daughter, Only, can count some of her first concert experiences as still growing inside her mother while she took the stage opening for Beck, and watching her dad open for Oasis to a sold out crowd at Metlife Stadium. Schecter has her artistry, her husband’s, and her motherhood — a trifecta of the things that make her who she is.

‘Hide My Weapons’ is an autobiographical lovers’ quarrel told in real time. The song started as an instrumental by Bockrath, to which Schecter added the melody and lyrics straight off the cuffs of a disagreement. Loving someone intimately is tender, but it’s also knowing how to get under one another’s skin better than anybody else does. “We are passionate people, husband and wife, best friends, creative collaborators, I’d be far more concerned if we never argued,” she shares.