Lizz Vega is a self-taught singer/songwriter from Los Angeles. A late bloomer when it comes to being a musician for she has only been creating music for five years. But her blues/RnB/soul fusion style of music will take you on a dive into what it means to connect to yourself and to others with the power of music.
Love Me In The Dark creates music inspired by Americana, Folk, Soul and Roots traditions. Dovetailing vocal blends of harmony and melody, beautifully crafted vulnerable lyricism, ethereal slide guitar and meticulously designed songwriting create an emotionally rich experience for the mind, body, and spirit.
LMITD feels, now more than ever, we need vulnerability, love, hope, compassion and gratitude in our daily lives. The two have created a sound completely authentic to who they are as individuals and to who they have become together. Steve is one of the last true audiophiles who not only produces records, but builds everything by hand in his studio, from the tube microphones he uses, to the tube preamps and tube compressors used on each of their recordings. The listener can hear the level of precise detail, artisan-ship and deep care infused into these productions.
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Hue The Muse are an acoustic pop music group. Live performances include immersive muti-media arts and eco based educational programs to teach music and mindfulness concepts that inspire cooperative engagement in “solution-ing” around the worlds growing list of impossible problems desperately in need of solving.
It’s an “all hands on deck” moment for humanity, we need all humans operating at their maximum potential.
The Sea Tease is a vocalist, songwriter and guitarist born in New England, originating from Philadelphia and currently living in Los Angeles. Her debut album ‘Resilient’, produced by Fernando Perdomo of Nine Mile Station and Echo In The Canyon, was released to great reviews and gained international radio play.
Her guitar and voice work in tandem as they move through her blues rock composition saturated in desert vibes. She loves playing the Whisky A Go Go and The Viper Room and is in the upcoming documentary series What It Takes To Be A Rockstar and is on Ram On: The 50th Anniversary Tribute To Ram; which was sanctioned by Paul McCartney and features the original drummer of Wings.
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I wasn’t groomed for music. I played volleyball for as long as I can remember (my parents met on the court). As a result, my story sounds similar to High School Musical – the jock secretly expressing himself through music as he grows more comfortable showing his true colors.
In 2014 I made a goal to write 40 songs within 6 months. My thought process was that if I couldn’t find any good ones out of 40, I should quit forever. Since then I’ve written 220, and some of them are really bad…
…and you’ll probably never hear them.
This is the weirdest job on the planet, and I wouldn’t recommend it to the faint of heart. It’s about making friends and speaking to people’s hearts. I’m always looking to meet hearty folks, so if you see me please say hi 🙂
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Twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, Mark Leggett has written and recorded music for artists Dolly Parton, Levon Helm and the Band, Werner Herzog, Richard Thompson along with many others. Scoring credits include My Name is Earl/NBC, Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings series/NETFLIX, Apocalypse ’45/Film, Doctor Who Am I/Film and more.
As a guitarist, Mark’s work has been heard in many film and media projects. He has been interviewed in Fretboard Journal as well as appearing in many popular videos online.
It’s no secret that great art comes from the margins. From those who are either pushed to create from inner forces, or who create to show they deserve to be recognized. Los Angeles based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary Sunny War has always been an outsider, always felt the drive to define her place in the world through music and songwriting.
As a young black girl growing up in Nashville, she searched for her own roots, looking first to the blues she heard from her mother’s boyfriend, and learning from a local guitarist. Moving to Los Angeles in her teens, she searched for herself in the LA punk scene, playing house shows with FIDLAR, and shoplifting DVDs from big box stores to trade at Amoeba Records for 80s punk albums. But here too she found herself on the outside, working to bridge her foundation in country blues and American roots guitar traditions with the punk scene she called home. She first made her name with this work, bringing a wickedly virtuosic touch on the fingerstyle guitar that sprang from her own self-discoveries on the instrument. But her restless spirit, a byproduct of growing up semi-nomadic with a single mother, led her to Venice Beach, California, where she’s been grinding the pavement for some years now, making a name for her prodigious guitar work and incisive songwriting, which touches on everything from police violence to alcoholism to love found and lost.
Her new album, With The Sun, out February 2, 2018 on Hen House Studios, is the culmination of years of burning curiosity as an artist, the result of many wandered paths to find some new way to speak her heart. For the first time, she’s writing songs first and crafting the guitar work second, focusing on her own poetry and trying to tell her own story. She’s an outsider artist in the truest sense, living on the margins of the establishment and fueled only by her own creative genius.
To help achieve With the Sun’s larger vision, Sunny War turned to the ragtag group of Venice Beach musicians she’s fallen in with, mainly members of psych folk band Insects vs Robot, including multi-instrumentalist Micah Nelson, fiddler Nikita Sorokin, and guitarist Milo Gonzalez. Produced by Harlan Steinberger at Hen House Studios in Venice Beach, which also doubled as the record label, the new album pushes and pulls between cleverly arranged orchestration and the DIY aesthetic that remains as Sunny’s throwback to her punk roots. For an artist with so many different influences, the album is remarkably cohesive, choosing to focus on Sunny’s songwriting and intricate guitar work. As an artist, Sunny borrows ideas and patterns at will from across the canon of American music. Her influences range from Elliott Smith, Black Flag, Joan Armatrading, and Tracy Chapman, to Robert Johnson (“To Love You” is her homage to Johnson’s “They’re Red Hot”), Elmore James, and Bessie Smith. “I feel like I am a blues guitarist, but I don’t think I’m a blues artist,” Sunny explains. “I only use the scales and techniques that I know and the only time I was trained in music was on blues guitar. I really love Elizabeth Cotton and Mississippi John Hurt. I still like to listen to them to feel that there’s nothing wrong with me playing the way I play.”
“…her right thumb plunks the bass part while her forefinger upstrokes notes and chords, leaving the other three fingers unused. A banjo technique, it’s also used by acoustic blues guitarists. Her fingers are long and strong – Robert Johnson hands – in jarring contrast to the waif they’re attached to. The walking bass line sounds like a hammer striking piano keys in perfect meter, while the fills are dynamic flurries – like cluster bombs. I haven’t heard a young guitarist this dexterous and ass-kicking in eons.”
– Michael Simmons, L.A Weekly
The Blood Moon Howlers are a psychedelic, neo-noir blues/rock band with some funk in the trunk out of Los Angeles, CA., formed in 2017. Their music features both male and female vocals, groovy guitar lines and unique drum beats and percussion that’ll put a wobble in your walk.
Their most recent critically acclaimed singles “At The Barrel 33 (Mess Around)”, “Moonlighters” and “Tilted Patrons” released in 2020 are spreading like wildfire all over online platforms and publications, magazines, blogs and have been played on radio stations all over the world. They have also been featured as the Artist Spotlight on SoCal’s 88.5 FM for multiple weeks in a row, which lead them to being the featured band on the AUX RTN Podcast affiliated with 88.5 FM.
Most recently, The Blood Moon Howlers played the first ever virtual reality Burning Man Festival being the largest virtual reality event in history, played on Jam In The Van in Los Angeles, Sunset Sound Studio’s “Into The Vault” series and were a featured band on Medicine Box’s “Tree Talks”.
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Venice Street Guitar Player whose music is Roots Americana. Inspired by BB King, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams.
