Former THICK drummer Shari Page debuts her six-track solo EP ‘Next Page,’ a self-written, self-produced pop-rock statement out now
Shari Page spent years behind the kit for Brooklyn punk trio THICK, sharing vocal duties and co-piloting a band that once opened for Violent Femmes and Flogging Molly on a national headline run. Now she has turned the page literally. Released on April 9, 2026, Next Page is Page’s debut solo EP, six tracks of self-written, self-produced pop-rock built almost entirely by her own hands, drums included.
The project has been years in the making. Speaking to Punk news at the time of the EP’s release, Page described a long writing process defined by revision and self-discovery: “I wanted the music to be more futuristic and melodic and not stuck in the moment. I’ve been going back to college and it’s been a fun and interesting experience to go to class and then come home and be in a writing and producing hole.” She credits a collaborative process with her band member Mikey, though the core vision remains entirely hers, right down to the live drum tracks she recorded herself.
A Brooklyn Drummer Who Always Loved Pop-Punk
The sonic territory Page stakes out on Next Page makes complete sense once you know her backstory. Growing up on Long Island, she was the kid who wore Senses Fail sweatshirts and caught every Early November and Envy on the Coast show she could find. That teenage obsession with the early 2000s pop-punk scene, the emo backpack patches, the checkered Vans, the Good Charlotte ticket stub at age 13, all of it feeds directly into what she is doing now as a soloist.
As Alternative Press noted when naming her a rising artist to watch, Page is paying “due diligence to her teenage self” with this music. That lineage lands clearly across Next Page. The EP is light on aggression and heavy on melody. Where THICK leaned into garage-rock momentum and three-way vocal harmonies, Page strips things down. Her voice, warm and unguarded, sits front and center in a way it rarely got to in the band context.
Tracks like “One Year,” “Kicking Rox,” and “Sometimes” each carry that instantly familiar feeling of finding a record that seems made just for you, the way good pop-rock has always worked. The pre-release single “1800-Is-She-Calling,” which arrived in February 2026, teased the EP’s blend of direct lyricism and melodic openness. It is a small song that does not try to be larger than it is. That restraint is one of the EP’s more underrated qualities.
‘Next Page’ Is Messy in the Best Way
Next Page does not pretend to be a finished thesis. It is a first statement, and it sounds like one. There is a rawness to the production, an energy that feels captured in the room rather than smoothed into submission. Page has said she played drums on every track and did not set the kit aside to reinvent herself as a guitar-forward solo artist. That choice matters. The rhythm is still her anchor.
What makes this six-song set worth following is the evidence it provides of a creative instinct that is clearly still shaking loose. Page began releasing solo material under the name Roon before settling back under her own name, and each single, from “Next Best Thing“ in late 2023 through “Waitlisted” in 2025, tracked an artist getting more precise about what she wanted to say. Next Page gathers that arc into one place. The messiness is not a flaw. It is the point. This is what a real beginning sounds like.
