Everyone at Hunnypot Live tends to leave with a hoarse face from cheering and singing along. Monday night we really saddled up with another great show. . , , Hot Tub started with a trailhead music set perfect for riding in rhythm. Rick Clark galloped in and jousted our hearts with his origins story and a great set of music to share. Joaquin Torres gave us unbridled pop gems, Wolves pranced on stage and had us howling along to their pop magic, Jason Charles Miller performed a thoroughbred worthy set of gritty rock n roll music and OG L Boogie cut through the slop with an impromptu rap-along jam. Hot Tub Johnnie hit the finish line with another amazing dance set to cool off the herd for the end of the night. . . Photos & recap by J. Gray 10/15/2018
Rick Clark grew up immersed in music in his hometown of Memphis, TN, a place where Rock, R&B, and Blues were everywhere. His first records where Sun Records 45's by Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Charlie Rich, as well as New Orleans Dixieland jazz by Sweet Emma & The Preservation Hall Band and raw British Invasion albums by The Yardbirds and The Kinks. Clark regards his first concert, James Brown & His Famous Flames in 1966, as a life-changing event that inspired him to pursue a life in music. By High School, Clark was working in Memphis' main record shop, Poplar Tunes; a place where local artists like Isaac Hayes and Al Green would sometimes hang, as well as every self-respecting band from England who made a pilgrimage there.
During the 70's onward, Clark played live and in sessions, including projects with members of Big Star, Memphis Horns, and the seminal Memphis Power Pop scene.
Early on, Clark DJ'ed his own radio show at WLYX-FM Memphis and his enthusiasm for creating great road music mix cassettes earned a rep as a go-to guy for new and great sounds, eventually starting a successful business programming music for every genre in venues throughout the South and other parts of the country. Eventually, he wrote for numerous national publications, including Billboard, Mix, Rolling Stone, Guitar Player, the All-Music Guide, Goldmine, and others. He also authored The Expert's Encyclopedia of Recording and, most recently, the third edition of his book Mixing, Recording and Producing Techniques of the Pros.
Over time, Clark began producing and compiling numerous major and indie label album releases, as well as writing liner notes, on artists ranging from Ricky Nelson, Dave Edmunds and Lynyrd Skynyrd to Leo Kottke, Jean Luc Ponty, and Big Star. Clark also began working as a curator, music consultant and independent A&R with clients ranging from museums, magazines to films and major label projects.
Meanwhile, Clark's production work in the studio attracted projects with Los Super Seven (an amalgam that included Calexico, Lyle Lovett, Delbert McClinton, John Hiatt, Raul Malo, Freddy Fender, Rodney Crowell and others) and work with Death Cab For Cutie, - music for The Band tribute Lost Highway and the hit TV show Weeds. Clark would also produce 26 shows of Marty Stuart's American Odyssey for Sirius/XM radio, direct two videos on Emmylou Harris for Warner DVD-Audio, compose and produce music for IBM's International Globalnet, as well as have his photography featured in gallery shows, record albums, and ad campaigns.
Beginning in 1997, through a recommendation by the legendary producer Jim Dickinson, Clark began work producing, co-compiling and doing all the legal clearance work for what would be the first seven volumes of the award-winning Oxford American Magazine music CDs, featuring music ranging from legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Randy Newman and BB King to obscure blues, jazz and Cajun music recordings. The collection quickly earned fans from T-Bone Burnett, Hunter Thompson, Cameron Crowe, Billy Bob Thornton, Orlando Bloom, Dolly Parton, Sidney Pollack and many others. The 2001 Oxford American music issue won The Blues Foundation's prestigious Keeping The Blues Alive award.
In 2012, The Oxford American brought Clark back on to produce their future music issues and CDs, including Lousiana, Texas and the Tennessee music issue which featured a two-CD set.
As a Music Supervisor, Clark's credits include working with Jason Reitman on Up In The Air, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (a film about the critically acclaimed band Big Star), Billy Bob Thornton's Jayne Mansfield's Car, the AMC episodic Western show Hell On Wheels and Sundance/AMC TV's Hap And Leonard. He is currently music supervising Oprah Winfrey's gospel drama Greenleaf for the OWN network.
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Joaquin Torres first came to public prominence as a television actor, soap star and he performed on the Latin American version of Dancing With The Stars. Joaquin appeared on late night television, morning shows and on Puerto Rican MTV.
Behind the scenes, Torres has always had a love for music. He learned to play the guitar at the age of 15 and soon he was writing songs and putting his poetry to music. When he was 18, Joaquin Torres enrolled in a conservatory acting program after earning a scholarship. This catapulted him to household name status in the Latin America as he commuted from his native California between projects.
"It was exciting to achieve success at an early age, but I always felt I was holding something back that was very important to my soul. I needed to do my own thing.”
Joaquin is now dedicating his career to mining the dark wave musical aesthetic within him. His body of work wrestles with spirituality, heartache and existential angst. His lyrics are poetic and expressively raw, made even more potent by his stirring vocals, a mix of guttural longing and bittersweet low-register melodicism.
"Desnudame" is Joaquin's first single to be released in the USA from his forthcoming album. The song was produced by Aldo Muñoz and Torres delivers with honesty and passion.
"I'm looking forward to getting this music out to the world. It gives my life so much meaning. It's the reason I'm still here. I'm ready to give this new era in my career everything I have."
Joaquin Torres makes a bold move in his career by releasing the music that lives in his heart and in his head. His fiery emotion is a fresh signature sound for a world-class performer.
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Meet WOLVES, a band that is breaking barriers and pushing the boundaries of modern music with their infectious blend of genres. Consisting of Marc Avery, Sean Carney, and Rockwell Sands, the Los Angeles based trio have created their own unique sound, marrying pop sensibilities with bold rock’n’roll and gritty urban beats. With each member hailing from various cultural backgrounds, WOLVES have crafted their own distinct style, shaping the sound of pop culture as we know it.
“We wondered what it would be like if we took all these different influences we loved—artists like Michael Jackson, the Eagles, Coldplay—and rolled them all into one band today,” Sands muses. Their eclectic influences proved to be inspirational, with their debut single ‘Animal’ giving the trio their signature explosive sound.
The band was named after the characteristics of wolves. These majestic animals which are bonded by an innate sense of the pack, move in harmony as one unit towards common goals. “I can’t think of a better way to describe us. The three of us are all about the good of the group; every day we try to embody that philosophy in our music and beyond.” remarks Avery.
WOLVES highly anticipated single 'Freaky' is an anthem to inspire others to be brave and embrace who you are, to share your inner-most desires with the world and to live life to the fullest. Featuring slick indie pop grooves, 90’s reminiscent hip hop and hard-hitting rhythms, ‘Freaky’ is a song that you can’t help but dance to. "We love listening to music from back in the day and try to re-imagine what it would sound like today.” reveals Carney.
From the primal energy of ‘Animal' to the seductive tones in ‘Freaky’, WOLVES have crafted a wildly diverse range of music built for pop radio and stadiums alike. Having already earned top spots on the Billboard charts and heavy rotation on Sirius XM Hits 1, the trio hopes to inspire audiences across the globe with their music, and to continue creating unforgettable songs that at once nod to the past and hurtle towards the future. ‘Freaky’ is set for release summer 2018.
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Jason Charles Miller is an accomplished and multi-faceted performer, with more than two decades of professional experience as a musician, songwriter, singer and voice actor.
Originally from Clifton, VA, Jason now lives in Los Angeles, CA where he owns and runs the successful recording complex, Central Command Studios.
Jason has co-written songs with artists Marilyn Manson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ben Moody [Evanescence], Chuck Goff [Toby Keith Band], Jeordie White [Nine Inch Nails], Driver Williams [Eric Church Band], Otherwise, Rev Theory and living legend Paul Anka. Songs he’s written can currently be heard on HBO’s True Blood and Hung, WWE Smackdown, The NFL Today and the wildly popular web series The Guild, Co-Optitude, Signal Boost, Dick and Johnson, The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy and Critical Role. Jason was the musical mastermind behind the critically acclaimed series and Streamy Award nominated Muzzled the Musical, writing every piece of music for the show and co-authoring the lyrics to every song. Jason co-wrote the smash single “Cruisin’ for a Bruisin” for the Disney Channel hit movie, Teen Beach Movie. The soundtrack was #1 on the Billboard charts and “Cruisin’ for a Bruisin” was nominated for a Radio Disney Award. Jason also penned the all star collaboration “Forever In Our Hearts,” a song to benefit the victims of the 2004 tsunami in South Asia which included Brian McKnight, Mya, Jacoby Shaddix [Papa Roach], Nate Dogg and many more. He’s produced songs for artists as varied as Billy Ray Cyrus, James LaBrie of Dream Theater, Felicia Day, Godhead, Psyclon 9, Tina Guo, Bret Michaels and YouTube sensation Drew Tabor.
As a solo artist, Jason has opened for country greats Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Gary Allan, Eric Church, Justin Moore, Big Kenny of Big and Rich, and Jerrod Niemann.
Miller is also widely recognized as the frontman and founder of the rock band Godhead, the only band ever signed to Marilyn Manson’s Posthuman Records. The band has sold more than 250,000 albums, and toured the world with the likes of Manson, Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed, GWAR, Slipknot, Rammstein, Linkin Park and Korn frontman Jonathan Davis.
Jason has received three Gold Record Awards for sales. One for the Godhead song “Penetrate” on the Queen of the Damned movie soundtrack, one for the song “The End Has Come,” which he wrote and performed with Evanescence founder Ben Moody for the movie The Punisher, and one for the Disney Channel hit movie soundtrack, Teen Beach Movie. Jason also recently sang two songs on the critically acclaimed soundtrack for the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and has even sung backup for Robert Smith of The Cure on the Reeves Gabrels/Robert Smith song, “Yeseterday’s Gone.”
Jason is the host of the popular Geek & Sundry show Starter Kit, a show that teaches celebrities how to play role playing games. Starter Kit airs every week on Project Alpha, presented by Legendary Pictures.
As a voice actor, Jason has appeared in over 100 animated productions and video games. Some career highlights include Attack on Titan (Gelgar), Neverwinter: Underdark (Drizzt Do’Urden), The Legend of Korra (The Sherriff), Hearthstone – Heroes of Warcraft (Loot Hoarder Gnome), Star Trek Online (Kal Dano), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn (Raubahn Aldynn), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Dollman and Black Condor), Firefall (Captain Wallach, Sergeant Lewis), Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Shinji), The Wonder Woman Animated Movie (Thraxx), Code Geass (Urabe), World of Warcraft (Prince Valanar, Commander Stoutbeard, Terrath the Steady, Hagrim Hopebreaker), Super Street Fighter 4, Street Fighter X Tekken, Ultra Street Fighter 4 (Guy), Resident Evil 5 (Robert Kendo), Dragon’s Dogma (Ser Wesley, Ser Jakys), Star Craft 2, Diablo III (Radek the Fence), Guild Wars 2 (Ben Tenstrikes, Big Nose Ted, Stefan Barush, Seneschal Elam) and has even narrated a film for NASA, “Bennu’s Journey” which appears in museums and planetariums around the country. You can see Jason on screen as Strike Leader Jackson in the SyFy original movie, Battle Planet, as the dastardly villain Kowboy Killa in Chatroom of Solitude on Stan Lee’s World of Heroes network, playing himself in season 5 of The Guild, and squabbling with Lewis Black and Andy Dick in various productions on Comedy Central.
Jason has been featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Guitar World, Inside Kung Fu and many more. He’s also appeared on MTV, MTV2, Fuse and VH1. Touted by many critics as one of rock and country’s best and most consistent live singers, Jason continues to wow live audiences all over the world.
JASON CHARLES MILLER is proud to announce the release of “In The Wasteland,” his definitive new album set to come out now via RED MUSIC/ SONY.
Mixed and produced by Grammy Award-winner Matt Hyde (Jonny Lang, No Doubt, Deftones) and featuring drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, John Fogerty), “In The Wasteland” showcases 11 tracks that blur the lines between Southern Rock, classic country, and the outlaw attitude that has earmarked MILLER‘s career as a singer, songwriter, producer and performer for more than two decades and over a dozen releases.
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Your Smith is a solo artist from Minneapolis formerly known as Caroline Smith, she moved out to Los Angeles 2 years ago to continue her music career, till 3 months ago, we haven’t heard from her since her tap-dancing 2016 release “Trying Not To Love You.” But she just released her debut single “The Spot” which incorporates the style of Pop and RnB under Your Smith as her current artist name.
Check out Your Smith’s new single “The Spot,” see if it feels like a throw back, Hunnypot Hot Tub Johnnie approved!
JYNX is the musical union of Los Angeles art freaks Harlow Black and Kii Arens. Kii’s background encompasses creating art and music videos for everyone from Dolly Parton and DEVO to Radiohead and The Hollywood Bowl, while Harlow began as a published poet and classically trained pianist. This “pop art rock ‘n’ roll band” effortlessly fuses rock, pop, punk, disco, rap, and more. JYNX is signed to We Are Hear, a record label founded by the legendary Linda Perry & Kerry Brown. Their music and live shows are inspired by powerful artistic performers like David Bowie, Prince, and Devo.
Listen to JYNX's debut single I Keep The Lights On, it will inspire you in an interesting way.
Roughly sixty miles down the coast (and a world away) from LAX lies Doheny State Beach. Located in beautiful Dana Point, CA and visited by nearly 1,000,000 beachgoers each year, Doheny is a world-renowned surf break, made famous (in part) by the Beach Boys hit “Surfin’ USA.” It has also been the longtime home of the Doheny Blues Festival, which relocated a short way up the coast this year following a twenty-year run at its namesake location.
Coincidentally, this idyllic beach is the exact spot where avid surfer, waterman and Ohana Festival organizer Eddie Vedder first hit the waves, igniting a lifelong passion for our oceans and their health. In 2016, Doheny became home to the Ohana Music Festival. As fans of Pearl Jam well know, the band’s front man and the ocean have always been inextricably intertwined. This event is an extension of that relationship. (Vedder has famously stated that it would probably take a six-hour concert to cover all of Pearl Jam’s “ocean songs,” which seems pretty accurate to me!) The Ohana Festival, now celebrating its third anniversary, was conceived with the goal of raising money for ocean related charities. It has succeeded in that regard, raising and contributing six-figure sums to the San Onofre Parks Foundation, an entity which works to preserve and protect California’s coastal parks and beach access.
Vedder, along with his friend and Ohana Festival collaborator Kelly Slater, (the professional surfing phenom), envisioned a music festival with stages located as close to Pacific Ocean waves as possible. This year’s surf festival featured three days of music, a family-friendly atmosphere (Ohana translates to “family” in Hawaiian language and culture, after-all), games, presentations, and ocean centric activities for children and adults alike. Artisan food supplied by local restaurants and food trucks, craft beers, signature cocktails, art installations and first-class musical talent attracted 40,000 attendees to the beach this year. Past iterations of Ohana featured standouts such as Vedder, Elvis Costello, Lana Del Rey, Social Distortion, and Jack Johnson. The star wattage didn’t dim this year, with a lineup that included Beck, Mumford and Sons, Eric Church, Norah Jones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and many others. Vedder made several surprise appearances throughout the weekend to jam with various bands. During his closing set on Saturday, he was joined onstage by Liz Phair, who accompanied him on Pearl Jam’s “Better Man.”
While 40,000 concert attendees packed onto to a relatively small beach area over three sun filled days might sound like a nightmare in the making, Doheny State Beach absorbed the masses effortlessly. Lines for food, beer and bathrooms were, save for the women’s bathrooms of course, quite short. There was plenty of space, shade, and seating. The family-friendly vibe was mellow throughout the weekend despite the copious amounts of alcohol being consumed in the hot sun. Due partly to the anniversary of the attack in Las Vegas, the Sheriff was onsite in serious force, but I never witnessed them doing anything more than mingling with the crowd. The masses were so well behaved that a deputy I queried regarding arrests hadn’t heard of a single one all weekend! While that is hard to believe, one can hope! I did hear of one attendee that hoped to ditch the crowds for a little respite: Eddie Vedder planned to catch some of the music while surfing the Doheny waves that introduced him to the sport. The surf gods must have taken note, as surf reports were predicting a large swell with overhead sets hitting the coast by Sunday. Surf’s up! The perfect addition to a music festival on the beach, organized by famous surfers and designed to raise money for our oceans. Enjoy, Mr. Vedder! And thank you!!!
The BellRays are an American group originally from Riverside, California starting in 1990. The group currently consists of mainstay lead vocalist Lisa Kekaula, guitarist Bob Vennum. Newest members include bass player Justin Andres and drummer Stefan Litrownik. The band have the mixture of sound in their music, from garage rock to punk rock, mixed with soul vocal style. Really wide ranged, it’s like a bottle of boba shake, you can not only receive the sweetness of the fruit juice also fill up your stomach with chewy boba balls. They have huge following in Europe and America.
The band describe themselves as: "High Octane Rock and Roll! Biography schmiography! Who cares about where they came from or what they did before or how many records they put out. Stats are not what music or this band is about. If you have an open mind and want something challenging in your life then this is where you want to stop and listen. Just take it in and make up your own mind. You want somebody to tell you what it is go to Kelly Clarkson's website instead. You tell us what we're about and then tell your friends whether you like it or not.” Really artistic but aggressive at the same time.
The BellRays released their first cassette album In the Light of the Sun in 1993, the album was reissue 2002. Let it Blast in 1998, Punk Rock and Soul in 1999, Grand Fury in 2000, The Red, White and Black in 2004, Have A Little Faith in 2006, Hard Sweet and Sticky in 2008 and Black Lightning in 2010. The band released their 4 songs EP Punk Funk Rock Soul Vol,1 in Dec.2017. The band just released a new album Punk Funk Rock Soul Vo l2 on 02 Feb 2018, having vinyls available at the moment and they just got back from Europe tour, the music from the album will be available soon on digital platforms, so stay tuned!
The band had been with several different record companies: You and Media (US), Heart of Gold (ES), Vicious Circle (FR), Shock (AU) and Alternative Tentacles (US). The BellRays are currently releasing DIY style with Hunnypot representing all licensing.
The BellRays also have several achievements during their music career. "Zero PM" was featured in the video game Driv3r and "Revolution Get Down" in a commercial for the Nissan Xterra."Revolution Get Down" was also used as a fade-to-commercial song during the 2006 NCAA Tournament in the George -Florida semifinal on CBS Sports.
Check out this live video footage from The BellRays' concert at Laiterie/Strasbourg performing "I Can't Hide" off their upcoming album "Punk Funk Rock Soul (Vol. 2)," excited about their epic release preview it early here.
Hunnypot has always supported great music zines and "Ben Is Dead" is one of the finest! The magazine began as a photocopied publication featuring interviews with punk and "alternative" rock bands of the era (including such then up-and-comers as Ethyl Meatplow, Nirvana and Hole) alongside the confessional and often shocking writing of Romeo, editors Mikki Halpin and Kerin Morataya, and her many contributors (which included such colorful personalities as Vaginal Davis, Ron Athey and Lisa Crystal Carver.) Starting with issue 10 ("Mother"), each issue had an overall theme ("Revenge," "Obsessions and Bad Habits," "Sex," etc.) which the zine's writers would explore in exhaustive detail, freely recounting their own suicide attempts, kinky sexual adventures, addictions or family horror stories. The zine gradually became much more slick-looking and featured interviews with such mainstream acts as Tom Jones, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Duran Duran alongside underground notables like William S. Burroughs, Johnny Rotten and Anton LaVey. Eventually Ben Is Deadhad a circulation in the tens of thousands and was being sold in Borders and Tower Records across the USA.
Come through to Ben Is Dead 30 Year Anniversary Party & Zine Fest at Catch One on November 11th, 2018 and show some love! Grab your tickets here.
Artists performing include:
Jawbreaker
Eleven Eleven
Glen Meadmore
JFA
Leyna Marika P
Popdefect
Poppy Jean Crawford
Pussy Cow
Midget Handjob
Savage Republic
Skatenigs
Superbean
Waco
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Róisín Marie Murphy is an Irish singer-songwriter and record producer. She first became known in the 1990s as one-half of the UK-Irish trip hop duo Moloko with her partner Mark Brydon. After the breakup of Moloko, Murphy embarked on a solo career, releasing her debut solo album, Ruby Blue, written and produced with experimental musician Matthew Herbert, to critical praise in 2005. Her second solo album, Overpowered, was released in 2007.
After an eight-year hiatus (which nonetheless included several singles, vocal features, and side projects), her third album Hairless Toys was released in 2015; it was subsequently nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and Ireland's Choice Music Prize. The following year, she released her fourth album Take Her Up to Monto (2016). Throughout her career, she has received critical praise for her idiosyncratic music, fashion, and performance sensibilities.
Check out her music video "Jacuzzi Rollercoaster" and have a nice trip! Hunnypot/Hot Tub Johnnie tested and approved.
There should be an Emergency Alert sent to all phones around the world to warn people that Hunnypot Live! is about to broadcast. Those that joined us for show #401 could have prepared themselves. Hot Tub started with a DJ set of tremors to maximum Richter rock and dance music. Scott Reifman put on his best typhoon wear and jumped in the tub with us. We talked about his musical journey through life and he popped in a playlist to please. The Living Street brought us life with a tornado avenue lined with acoustic pop gems. Grace Blue returned to Hunnypot with their dark oozing lava, upbeat electro sounds. Bizou only came out at night with a flood of organic instrument future rock and Jessica Foxx was like a hurricane with a pop storm in her voice and eyes. 10/01/2018
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The Living Street is an indie-folk duo consisting of Nick Guckert (Guitar/Vocals) and Edward J. Angelo (Bass/Vocals) formed in July 2017 in Pittsburgh, PA. Guckert and Angelo grew up in Lower Burrell, a small town just outside of the city and less than a mile down the road from one another. Both developed a love for music early on in life, but it wasn’t until the two met in school sports that they recognized a shared passion, burgers.
The official beginning of their friendship as they recall was over a handful of burgers nearly a decade ago (so, really, if there is any one person to truly thank for bringing The Living Street together, it’s Dave Thomas). From there, they started jamming out original ideas together as much as their parents could handle it, often escaping to the empty baseball field dugout right behind Angelo’s childhood home. It was in those moments Guckert and Angelo realized they shared a special collaborative bond bringing only the best out of each other artistically. There was only one option at this point.
In their freshman year of high school, Guckert encouraged Angelo to come along with him to practice with the band he was in at the time. After one successful jam, it didn’t take long for Guckert to convince the other members to make Angelo an official member of My Friday Slacks.
Guckert and Angelo remained primary songwriters taking collaborative approaches with every member of the band thus creating a unique sound differing from the original vision. Eventually, Guckert and Angelo started a new side project where they could have full control of musical direction, The Artless. As The Artless, they allowed their artistry to truly blossom and were able to play in support of several national acts including: The Front Bottoms, GEOGRAPHER, Chairlift, Lissie and The Boxer Rebellion.
After graduating from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a marketing degree, Angelo decided to move to Pittsburgh in the Lawrenceville neighborhood to join Guckert and begin working on a new writing project that didn't even have a name, but they shared a common goal — play music together for life. Playing and writing music and entertaining an audience are Guckert and Angelo's favorite things to do, and it has not wavered since the early days in the dugout behind Angelo’s house. The two are dedicated to their careers as artists and performers.
After a decade of writing together on and off, they brought it back to the basics: just the two of them and an acoustic guitar writing honest songs through observation and self-reflection. They released their first single "Can't Steal My Love" on September 20th, 2017. The Living Street left for a tour of the east coast after the release of their debut self-titled album The Living Street on January 5th, 2018. They returned home in April of 2018 to get back in the studio and prepare for a west coast tour in the fall.
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Based out of Los Angeles, CA, Grace Blue is a duo comprised of vocalist Grace Mogz and keyboardist Joseph Arazi who had the pleasure of meeting each other in their hometown in Israel. Grace Blue's first video for their current single "Our Eyes" has garnered over 100,000 views on YouTube alongside rave reviews. Their next video/single "Nowhere To Go" will be released this spring. We're proud to welcome Grace Blue to the Hunnypot Family. Check out their full 5 song EP at the link below. All songs are Represented by Hunnypot, Master and Publishing.
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Former members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Light FM, Wax Idols and Tennis System serve up cotton candy at a beach bonfire for Goth kids.
Mina Prietto (vocals) Nicole Fiorentino (bass, backing vocals) Josiah Mazzaschi (guitar, programming) Nicki Nevlin (Guitar) and Erin Tidwell (Drums) have individually had much success in bands in Los Angeles the last decade. Having played and backed such bands as Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, Tennis System, Wax Idols, Jennie Vee, and Light FM.
Over the years, through the music scene, they become great friends and realized, more than anything, they wanted to play in a band with each other. From this, Bizou was born. Bizou dishes haunting and honest vocals, backed by the melodic and hard-hitting guitar, bass, and drums reminiscent of the synth-pop, post-punk, new wave the music scene so desperately needs. Some might say, they're serving up cotton candy at a beach bonfire for goth kids. And, hey, goth kids need love too.
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Humbly raised in a small farm town in Connecticut, growing up Jessica Foxx had not so small dreams for herself. She started dancing and performing at the young age of 3 and began taking voice and acting classes shortly there after. In 2014 she decided to take the leap and move to Los Angeles to pursue her passion to be an artist. She enrolled in the Vocal Performance program at the well renowned Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA and started to release her original music in 2016.
A perfect cocktail of electro pop and dark pop, Foxx is paving a new and edgier path in the world of pop music. With or without modern pop production, her voice is unbelievably refreshing. Tongue-in-cheek, gutsy songwriting is what puts Jessica Foxx in the ranks of the new pop generation.
Completely independent, Foxx has made some great connections over the years. Her debut single “Heartbreak Tastes Like Summer” was co-written with the upcoming songwriter/artist Leland who has since written for acts like Selena Gomez, Troye Sivan and Sabrina Carpenter. She co-wrote her most recent single “Cake” with BMG songwriter Jeremy Thurber (Meghan Trainor, Trisha Paytas) and was mastered by Randy Merrill (Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry) at Sterling Sound in New York City. Her self-funded music video for “Cake” debuted on May 3, 2018 on YouTube and racked up 3.2k views in under a month.
While she is confidently vulnerable with every song, her main focus is to connect with her fans and build a genuine community around her music. She may be on the road to Billboard success but she refuses to let that distract her from what’s most important, her fans. Through her social media, you can tell Foxx is very interactive with her fan base, the "Foxx Mafia" and devotes time to connect with them on a daily basis.
Gin Blossoms, fresh off a U.S. tour celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their 5x multi-platinum breakthrough album "New Miserable Experience," made a stop at the sold-out Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA on Monday. Formed in Tempe, Arizona in 1987, the group tore through old favorites like "Allison Road," "Follow You Down," "Found out About You," and "Hey Jealousy" (their biggest hit, with over 13 million views). They also delved into rollicking new material such as "Break" and "Angels Fly" off their latest release "Mixed Reality," which dropped in June on Cleopatra Records.
Featuring Robin Wilson on lead vocals, the band had fans in the enthusiastic crowd dancing and singing along to every word of the hits, with a few in the throng occasionally accompanying the musicians with tambourines that Wilson handed out to some lucky fans down front.
New songs, of which the band played several, were well received by the all. The crowd may not have known all the words yet, but the music certainly seemed to resonate with them. "Mixed Reality," the first release since "No Chocolate Cake" back in 2010, continues in the tradition of an unmistakable Gin Blossom sound. A sound that never failed to keep the Troubadour bouncing. Song writing remains strong and compelling and the band extremely tight. Additional testament to the reason Gin Blossom records exceed 10 million in sales!
Gin Blossoms, with Wilson on vocals, percussion, harmonica and acoustic guitar, Scott "Scotty" Johnson on guitar and backup vocals, Scott Hessel bangin' the skins, Bill Leen on bass, and Jesse Valenzuela on guitar and backup vocals continue to enthrall ardent followers with music that has weathered the test of time. An added bonus: Gin Blossom fans didn't need to sell a kidney to see their band in intimate venues like the world famous Troubadour - Tickets were a steal! And even after more than a quarter century of relentless touring, Gin Blossoms still bring plenty of energy and passion to their live performances. In the era of over-production and "auto-tune perfection," it's refreshing to see a band that sounds just as good in concert as they do on polished studio tracks.
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Erthlings are an indie pop band from Sydney, Australia, formed by a group of 16-year-old high school girls (Issy, Taylor, Jess and Lissa). They signed with label and management for their super exciting debut single, Bridges. The band originally formed when the girls were 8 years old at music school. Their debut single Bridges is one of Earthlings’ more powerful songs. The song is based around the idea of moving on, and feeling dragged down enhanced with a beautiful melody. Check it out, we're ready to hear more about what these young girls have to say!