French Cassettes
Growing up in a small almond orchard town in California left me with few choices as to what I did with my free time so when my brother Thomas saved up enough money to buy a $200 drum kit I figured it to be an obvious sign that I should be in the rock 'n' roll business. So I put down the saxophone and got a rock guitar so I could sing and play at the same time.
After failing at our main goal which was to be the Pixies, we realized we needed a lead guitar player. I was auditioning this one guy and then realized there was someone else in the room. It was Mackenzie and he knew about one Strokes tune so he got the gig.
If you're looking for a healthy overdose of oo's and ah's to pair with your lust for hypermelodic indie pop so danceable it'll leave you questioning your high heeled shoe choice for the night or thinking, 'you don't need hands with hooks like these', then I think you'll like it. I do. And it beats shaking almonds out of trees. -Scott Huerta (French Cassettes)
O
O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers)
Alternately compared to Roxy Music, Aphrodite's Child, Klaatu, Salvia Plath, Madonna, The Buzzcocks, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Lord Buckley, the feeling you have when you wake after receiving dental gas, Mariah Carey played backwards, Prince, Booker T & The MG's, Pere Ubu, Queen and the sound of plants recorded under microscopic conditions.. the rise of O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers) has been so rapid that that facts about where they actually came from have been lost in the litany of lawsuits over fainting and/or crushed girls and the copyright claims associated with sending and receiving telepathic imagery, especially from beyond this life.
Some things however are irrefutable facts [You can't kill yourself by holding your breath / You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206 /Slugs have 4 noses] and anyone who recently witnessed the spectacle of Gregory Di' Martino, the 6ft 8" lead singer of Black Cobra Vipers, silencing the crowd at a Monster Truck Rally in Des Moines, Iowa with nothing more than a gentle guitar and a searing voice calling out an impassioned hymn to an alcoholic beverage ["Colt 45"], knew that they were witnessing the birth of something special. Not just a new band or a new sound, but a new way of being. Motorcycle's hung seemingly in mid-air and cigarettes fell loosely from the lips of men who were twice the size of other large men.
Regardless of whether they were eventually run out of town in a barrage of flames and shameful remorse [they were], for a brief moment a natural law had been circumvented, and all those who witnessed were never the same again.
The band have recently changed their name to O, when asked about the reasons behind this bassist Julian Borrego said that the band wanted a name that was as close to not actually have a name as you could possibly have whilst still having a name, if that makes any sense, and through a series of coincedences and blind drunk initiations, enlisted the services of the man who named another band who was known for their ability to, literally, destroy the existing order and replace it with something rawer, younger and more exciting, albeit 50's years ago: The Who.
Richard Barnes, who came up with the name for both bands had this to say about O: "When The Who were forced to change their name from The Detours, we went through dozens of names, but none stood out sufficiently. I thought of The Who in order for it to totally different and to make people do a re-take, it worked almost immediately. I think names are very important but a great name only works with a great band, I think 'O' is a great name and 'O' are a great band."
O's debut release is coming out this fall and they will be embarking on a nationwide tour shortly afterward.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call "Heat-Wave". Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW's music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality. "Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
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Growing up in a small almond orchard town in California left me with few choices as to what I did with my free time so when my brother Thomas saved up enough money to buy a $200 drum kit I figured it to be an obvious sign that I should be in the rock 'n' roll business. So I put down the saxophone and got a rock guitar so I could sing and play at the same time.
After failing at our main goal which was to be the Pixies, we realized we needed a lead guitar player. I was auditioning this one guy and then realized there was someone else in the room. It was Mackenzie and he knew about one Strokes tune so he got the gig.
If you're looking for a healthy overdose of oo's and ah's to pair with your lust for hypermelodic indie pop so danceable it'll leave you questioning your high heeled shoe choice for the night or thinking, 'you don't need hands with hooks like these', then I think you'll like it. I do. And it beats shaking almonds out of trees. -Scott Huerta (French Cassettes)
O
O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers)
Alternately compared to Roxy Music, Aphrodite's Child, Klaatu, Salvia Plath, Madonna, The Buzzcocks, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Lord Buckley, the feeling you have when you wake after receiving dental gas, Mariah Carey played backwards, Prince, Booker T & The MG's, Pere Ubu, Queen and the sound of plants recorded under microscopic conditions.. the rise of O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers) has been so rapid that that facts about where they actually came from have been lost in the litany of lawsuits over fainting and/or crushed girls and the copyright claims associated with sending and receiving telepathic imagery, especially from beyond this life.
Some things however are irrefutable facts [You can't kill yourself by holding your breath / You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206 /Slugs have 4 noses] and anyone who recently witnessed the spectacle of Gregory Di' Martino, the 6ft 8" lead singer of Black Cobra Vipers, silencing the crowd at a Monster Truck Rally in Des Moines, Iowa with nothing more than a gentle guitar and a searing voice calling out an impassioned hymn to an alcoholic beverage ["Colt 45"], knew that they were witnessing the birth of something special. Not just a new band or a new sound, but a new way of being. Motorcycle's hung seemingly in mid-air and cigarettes fell loosely from the lips of men who were twice the size of other large men.
Regardless of whether they were eventually run out of town in a barrage of flames and shameful remorse [they were], for a brief moment a natural law had been circumvented, and all those who witnessed were never the same again.
The band have recently changed their name to O, when asked about the reasons behind this bassist Julian Borrego said that the band wanted a name that was as close to not actually have a name as you could possibly have whilst still having a name, if that makes any sense, and through a series of coincedences and blind drunk initiations, enlisted the services of the man who named another band who was known for their ability to, literally, destroy the existing order and replace it with something rawer, younger and more exciting, albeit 50's years ago: The Who.
Richard Barnes, who came up with the name for both bands had this to say about O: "When The Who were forced to change their name from The Detours, we went through dozens of names, but none stood out sufficiently. I thought of The Who in order for it to totally different and to make people do a re-take, it worked almost immediately. I think names are very important but a great name only works with a great band, I think 'O' is a great name and 'O' are a great band."
O's debut release is coming out this fall and they will be embarking on a nationwide tour shortly afterward.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call "Heat-Wave". Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW's music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality. "Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
French Cassettes
Growing up in a small almond orchard town in California left me with few choices as to what I did with my free time so when my brother Thomas saved up enough money to buy a $200 drum kit I figured it to be an obvious sign that I should be in the rock 'n' roll business. So I put down the saxophone and got a rock guitar so I could sing and play at the same time.
After failing at our main goal which was to be the Pixies, we realized we needed a lead guitar player. I was auditioning this one guy and then realized there was someone else in the room. It was Mackenzie and he knew about one Strokes tune so he got the gig.
If you're looking for a healthy overdose of oo's and ah's to pair with your lust for hypermelodic indie pop so danceable it'll leave you questioning your high heeled shoe choice for the night or thinking, 'you don't need hands with hooks like these', then I think you'll like it. I do. And it beats shaking almonds out of trees. -Scott Huerta (French Cassettes)
O
O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers)
Alternately compared to Roxy Music, Aphrodite's Child, Klaatu, Salvia Plath, Madonna, The Buzzcocks, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Lord Buckley, the feeling you have when you wake after receiving dental gas, Mariah Carey played backwards, Prince, Booker T & The MG's, Pere Ubu, Queen and the sound of plants recorded under microscopic conditions.. the rise of O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers) has been so rapid that that facts about where they actually came from have been lost in the litany of lawsuits over fainting and/or crushed girls and the copyright claims associated with sending and receiving telepathic imagery, especially from beyond this life.
Some things however are irrefutable facts [You can't kill yourself by holding your breath / You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206 /Slugs have 4 noses] and anyone who recently witnessed the spectacle of Gregory Di' Martino, the 6ft 8" lead singer of Black Cobra Vipers, silencing the crowd at a Monster Truck Rally in Des Moines, Iowa with nothing more than a gentle guitar and a searing voice calling out an impassioned hymn to an alcoholic beverage ["Colt 45"], knew that they were witnessing the birth of something special. Not just a new band or a new sound, but a new way of being. Motorcycle's hung seemingly in mid-air and cigarettes fell loosely from the lips of men who were twice the size of other large men.
Regardless of whether they were eventually run out of town in a barrage of flames and shameful remorse [they were], for a brief moment a natural law had been circumvented, and all those who witnessed were never the same again.
The band have recently changed their name to O, when asked about the reasons behind this bassist Julian Borrego said that the band wanted a name that was as close to not actually have a name as you could possibly have whilst still having a name, if that makes any sense, and through a series of coincedences and blind drunk initiations, enlisted the services of the man who named another band who was known for their ability to, literally, destroy the existing order and replace it with something rawer, younger and more exciting, albeit 50's years ago: The Who.
Richard Barnes, who came up with the name for both bands had this to say about O: "When The Who were forced to change their name from The Detours, we went through dozens of names, but none stood out sufficiently. I thought of The Who in order for it to totally different and to make people do a re-take, it worked almost immediately. I think names are very important but a great name only works with a great band, I think 'O' is a great name and 'O' are a great band."
O's debut release is coming out this fall and they will be embarking on a nationwide tour shortly afterward.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call "Heat-Wave". Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW's music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality. "Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
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Growing up in a small almond orchard town in California left me with few choices as to what I did with my free time so when my brother Thomas saved up enough money to buy a $200 drum kit I figured it to be an obvious sign that I should be in the rock 'n' roll business. So I put down the saxophone and got a rock guitar so I could sing and play at the same time.
After failing at our main goal which was to be the Pixies, we realized we needed a lead guitar player. I was auditioning this one guy and then realized there was someone else in the room. It was Mackenzie and he knew about one Strokes tune so he got the gig.
If you're looking for a healthy overdose of oo's and ah's to pair with your lust for hypermelodic indie pop so danceable it'll leave you questioning your high heeled shoe choice for the night or thinking, 'you don't need hands with hooks like these', then I think you'll like it. I do. And it beats shaking almonds out of trees. -Scott Huerta (French Cassettes)
O
O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers)
Alternately compared to Roxy Music, Aphrodite's Child, Klaatu, Salvia Plath, Madonna, The Buzzcocks, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Lord Buckley, the feeling you have when you wake after receiving dental gas, Mariah Carey played backwards, Prince, Booker T & The MG's, Pere Ubu, Queen and the sound of plants recorded under microscopic conditions.. the rise of O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers) has been so rapid that that facts about where they actually came from have been lost in the litany of lawsuits over fainting and/or crushed girls and the copyright claims associated with sending and receiving telepathic imagery, especially from beyond this life.
Some things however are irrefutable facts [You can't kill yourself by holding your breath / You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206 /Slugs have 4 noses] and anyone who recently witnessed the spectacle of Gregory Di' Martino, the 6ft 8" lead singer of Black Cobra Vipers, silencing the crowd at a Monster Truck Rally in Des Moines, Iowa with nothing more than a gentle guitar and a searing voice calling out an impassioned hymn to an alcoholic beverage ["Colt 45"], knew that they were witnessing the birth of something special. Not just a new band or a new sound, but a new way of being. Motorcycle's hung seemingly in mid-air and cigarettes fell loosely from the lips of men who were twice the size of other large men.
Regardless of whether they were eventually run out of town in a barrage of flames and shameful remorse [they were], for a brief moment a natural law had been circumvented, and all those who witnessed were never the same again.
The band have recently changed their name to O, when asked about the reasons behind this bassist Julian Borrego said that the band wanted a name that was as close to not actually have a name as you could possibly have whilst still having a name, if that makes any sense, and through a series of coincedences and blind drunk initiations, enlisted the services of the man who named another band who was known for their ability to, literally, destroy the existing order and replace it with something rawer, younger and more exciting, albeit 50's years ago: The Who.
Richard Barnes, who came up with the name for both bands had this to say about O: "When The Who were forced to change their name from The Detours, we went through dozens of names, but none stood out sufficiently. I thought of The Who in order for it to totally different and to make people do a re-take, it worked almost immediately. I think names are very important but a great name only works with a great band, I think 'O' is a great name and 'O' are a great band."
O's debut release is coming out this fall and they will be embarking on a nationwide tour shortly afterward.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call "Heat-Wave". Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW's music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality. "Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
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