Arrow De Wilde

This teenage rock frontwoman can writhe onstage in a strait jacket and spit fake blood with the best of them.

- Aly Comingore

This past May, 18-year-old Arrow de Wilde graduated from L.A.’s Grand Arts High School—but it wasn’t easy getting there. Leading up to her final days as a high schooler, de Wilde’s band, Starcrawler, was getting busier and busier: playing shows alongside groups like Ho99o9 and The Lemon Twigs, being featured by publications like Dazed, and spending late nights in the studio with their producer, Ryan Adams. When the band was offered its first European tour this spring, de Wilde recalls, her school’s administrators finally stepped in. “It was a very big deal,” she says. “With public school in your senior year, you can only have, like, seven absences, and I already had, like, 20. I had to talk to so many people and fill out so much paperwork. Even though it’s an art school, they still have to follow the rules.” Her principal eventually signed off on the trip, which took de Wilde and bandmates Henri Cash, Austin Smith, and Tim Franco all over the United Kingdom. They returned home just in time for de Wilde to attend prom, where she wore a vintage tulle dress and a diamond-encrusted cross necklace, and—in true rock-star form— took her guitarist as her date.