The Snares are an American psych-rock outfit based in Sacramento, California. The band currently consists of Izzie Gomez, Lukas Brodie, Danielle Judith and Julian Paz. The Snares have a variety of influences that can be heard in their sound, including garage/psychedelic rock, pop, noise rock, and post-punk. Formed in an echo drenched garage, The Snares made their mark in March 2023 with the independent release of their debut album, Walls That Sweat. This 10-track collection, was crafted at Atomic Garden Studios in Oakland, CA, and captured live-to-tape by renowned audio engineer Jack Shirley. Continuing their momentum, The Snares release a new EP, "Damaged Goods" on November 16th 2024, in collaboration with Psyched! Records from San Francisco, CA. Accompanying the single “What You Said?” is a music video, edited by Paul Bates, which offers an intimate glimpse into their recording process at Atomic Garden Studios.

Shaped by an earnest punch in the face, LA rock trio Paradise Vultures have hip-thrust the scene with a humble swagger and slow-burn reflection.  Helmed by Tommy Senter (lead vox/bass) the band has gone through a few iterations since 2017 but finally settled in as a familial three-piece in 2022.    Not trying to defy convention, Paradise Vultures still manage to shift their devious sonic current by convection.  While filled to the brim with seductive self-awareness that often meets muscular-but-never-entirely-cocky riffage, they grab you by the throat only to then serenade.  Thematically, Paradise Vultures run the same gamut of emotion as any artist would growing up in this city: love, loss, grief, and existential crisis.  Though, it can be a lot more fun to be subsumed under the simpler blanket of sex drugs & daddy issues.  With influences ranging from Queens of the Stone Age, ABBA, Nick Cave and Pink Floyd, the band lean into comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable.  Their debut full-length “Born to Lose” was written in the lead up to, and immediate aftermath of the passing of Senter’s aunt. So, candid heartbreak reigns over the lyrical candor and resounding cynicism.  Senter’s prowling bass lines give moody ballast to a batch of rock songs sounding occasionally theatrical, sometimes brutish, one part ramshackle fun house, and two parts impassioned grit between pearly teeth.  Often-shirtless drummer Matty Barreca is the dynamic backbone of this sensitive beast with pocket deeper than the Mariana Trench. Following rowdy performances around LA (including a sold-out Viper Room), the release of a grisly new music video for “Love is a Cancer” and an album release, Paradise Vultures circle and land together, scavenging the best bits from the still-meaty remains of moody desert rock.

SoCal fuzzy psych garage rock, bouncing in and out of phase with an unmatched energy around each bend. Burning tape and riding the red, Sun Jelly is guaranteed to make some noise.

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