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!
The 131ers was founded in 2012, the band has grown from a two-piece blue-veined American folk project to a full scale quadraphonic tour de force. The solid foundation of friendship between founding members Kaleb Davies (vox/guitar) and Ryan Dawson (drums) permeates every note, eventually shepherding fellow members Chris Graue (bass) and Greg Wilmot (guitar) into the fold. The 131ers have claimed their own unique genre-bending sound by successfully infusing rock n’ roll with funk, edge, passion and soul.
The 131ers are from Torrance, California and play indie-folk-rock that frequently draws comparisons to "classic Americana." The band records all their music in their home built studio and produces their own music videos. A little bit of their blood, sweat, and tears can be found in everything they produce. But not literally, because that would be gross.
Check out 131ers' music video Crazy, don't you feel a little hungry after watching this?
Make sure to come out to our Hunnypot Live at the Mint Party on November 12th, The 131ers will be joining us and perform live!
Pershanoush is a Electro-pop music with orchestral influenced project that will take you into a wide, feminine, sensible and sensual atmosphere. The project is founded by Vanessa Giangrade, she started her music journey since she was in a young age. She’s also passionate in video editing, she was involved in many movie trailers, short films and fashion films. She returns to music through composition for the image. Check out her latest release Fallin’ Over the second extract of Pershanoush first EP.
The video homages to such classic cult films like Barbarella, Flash Gordon and Clash of the Titans Hunnypot approved.
Sheck Wes, is an American rapper, songwriter, and model. Wes is known widely for "Mo Bamba", his 2017 song that went viral in 2018. Wes is jointly signed to Travis Scott's Cactus Jack Records and Kanye West's GOOD Music record labels, under the aegis of Interscope Records and Polydor Records.
Check out Sheck Wes’s latest single Chippi Chippi, and feel the groove of this popping rapper killing the game!