New Faces on SPIN LA!

After the hacker’s attack on the Dynamite Online website, targeting the blogs including SPIN LA, we are back with some news.

Starting this month, SPIN LA will feature new bands that are working hard to get their word – or music – out there. This is an idea that I have been contemplating for a while, most precisely since I used to live in Brazil. During the time I worked in the music industry in São Paulo I always thought that musicians had a tough life and very few opportunities. In my idea the music industry in the US had to be a lot easier and musicians in the US had more opportunities than in Brazil.
Well, years later I live in Los Angeles, have many acquaintances in the industry and guess what? It is just as hard!
Having this in mind we are opening this space to new bands that are looking for opportunities to show their music.

The first band to be feature has a very peculiar name, ‘Tragic Orange’, and it comes from New York.

TRAGIC ORANGE

Tragic Orange is Phil Skiba (vocals), Christina Vitucci (drums), Jimmy Pavlis (bass), Steve Valdez and Victor Fakhoury (guitars).


The band has been together since 2005, has recorded a self-titled album in 2005, and just finished recording an EP, ‘The Golden Moon’, with 3 new songs. The songs are available on their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/tragicorange

Their sound is a mixture of heavy metal, traditional rock and energy that could only come from the youth and the willingness to succeed. According to the band, their music influences are very diverse: Bullet for my Valentine, Chevelle, Portishead, Tool, The Doors, Staind, 10 years, Cold Play, Motley Crue. From ‘The Golden Moon’, ‘Leave’ and ‘Despite Despair’ deserve a peak, showing melodic guitars and excellent drum/bass chemistry.

The band starts its first US tour this month (August), with over 50 dates all over the country. “The 2008 Summer Awareness Tour” 'was inspired by the heroes that are fighting in the war', says the band. And they add: ‘it is basically to support our troops and their families, we are not pro war but we are pro life, the donations, ticket sales, and merchandise proceeds as well as audience donations will go to the children and families of our American heroes defending our country’.


If you would like to be part of this effort, find more information at
www. operationhomefront.net

Next month more new faces here on SPIN LA.

Cheers!

SM