How???
LA cosmic folk-rock sonic explorers How??? blend a mix of hard-crafted Americana with psychedelic rock and classic electronic music to bring a fresh sound to the scene. Taking cues from artists like Cate Le Bon, Roxy Music, Boards of Canada, and Townes Van Zandt, longtime Paperhaus collaborators Alex Tebeleff and Matt Dowling created their sound using the studio as an instrument to transform their songs into something new. How??? live is a powerful force of electronic, electric, and acoustic instruments that bring the recordings to life.
Wolf Trap
Wolftrap is a Los Angeles-based Americana / Indie Rock project created by Miguel Samuel and Bailey Mae Gardener in 2021. Their harmony-driven songwriting is rooted in the narrative folk tradition while embracing a philosophy of musical time-travel that has drawn comparisons to Dr. Dog, The Magnetic Zeros, The Velvet Underground, Fleetwood Mac and the Black Keys.
The project was formed at Mermaid Farm, a dairy farm on the island of Martha’s Vineyard where Bailey and Miguel rented an apartment and worked in the creamery and fields. They gigged for two years at local bars, farmers markets and festivals before moving west to connect with a musical community they discovered online through School of Song songwriting workshops.
Since arriving in Los Angeles in Oct ‘22 Wolftrap has released an EP “The Good Side” and four stand-alone singles. Their 4-piece band plays regularly in East LA, sometimes in Hollywood, and increasingly on the road in California and the Southwest. The band’s sophomore EP “The Bad Side” — dealing in themes of toxic relationships, death, anxiety and heartbreak — is expected late 2024.
Spencer Hoffman
Spencer Hoffman's debut album, Apple Core, which he self-recorded during the pandemic, sounds nothing like the cold isolation of quarantine. Rather, the gorgeous melodies and literary references are a celebration of the togetherness of humanity. After completing an albums worth of songs, they found their way to Melina Duterte (Jay Som) who went to work on mixing the album. “Melina and the community around me really championed the record and made me feel that it was worth pursuing and sharing,” says Spencer.
"All these pieces of the moon/ I can't carry them anymore" he sings in the opening track, and it sets off a rumination on all the ways our fractured self-image is thrown back at us. The album has all the contemplative nuance of Songs of Leonard Cohen, while not shying away from the shambly rock and roll of Plastic Ono Band or Harry Nilsson. Serpentining between cynical quips about modern society and the vulnerable unraveling of his own inner turmoil, Hoffman is the steady hand on the tiller as we sail into turbid waters. Hoffman sings in "Song of Innocence" how he dreamed of experiencing a failure that was so obvious and definitive that he could accept letting go of his musical dreams forever. Fortunately, instead of letting go of that dream, he sailed us right into it.
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DJ lil'Micah
You know him, you love him: DJ lil' Micah.
