Killola
Killola is an female-fronted band from Los Angeles, California. Their music includes elements of garage rock, new-wave punk, power pop and alternative. They began playing together in 2003. In early 2004, they recorded an EP and posted the songs onto lead singer Lisa Rieffel’s Myspace page (at that time Myspace was about 3 months old).
The band has played countless shows in LA and has put out several releases on their own, selling and distributing the album via their website.
In May 2007 Killola completed a self-booked UK tour (the band personally booked 13 shows in 13 days, all set-up through Myspace). At the end of that tour, they recorded a live-in-studio record (15 tracks mixed live to analog tape) in Suffolk, England (Bury St Edmunds).
In mid 2007, Killola lent some music to a webisodic series called “Girltrash!” (web-spinoff of “The L Word”) written and directed by Angela Robinson. After Robinson attended a Killola performance, she offered Rieffel a lead character role in the show itself. She plays a foul-mouthed lesbian crook called ‘Daisy Robson’.
http://www.girltrash.tv
Killola’s live show is high-energy and often provocative in nature. It is said that Lisa sometimes “blacks out by the middle of the first song, then wakes up about 30 minutes after the show ends”…. noted antics include jumping on fans, throwing up, groping the drummer, and laying on the floor in the middle of the crowd.
On top of making music for years, Killola is a highly fan-accessible band. The band members host online interactive video-chat shows every Friday night, and on Monday nights Johnny and Lisa host a radio show on Dave Navarro’s web-radio station SPREAD RADIO LIVE. The band personally mails out several pounds of postage every week to fans through their “You Take Time, We Take Time” campaign… details at www.killola.com/youtaketime
Killola encourages fans to tattoo themselves with band-related artwork and/or lyrics. The band’s website devotes a section to Killola fan-tattoos showcasing photos of several fan-tatoos from around the world. The band states that a Killola tattoo gets you free entry into performances for life.
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Visit:
http://www.killola.com
http://www.virb.com/killola (several free mp3 downloads)
The Turn
Teaming up with producer Frank Gryner (Rob Zombie, A Perfect Circle) theTURN have carved out ten epic songs to be released early 2008. After winning the 99.3 cfox seeds contest in 05/06, a radio contest that has launched the career’s of international recording artists Nickleback, Default, and Mathew Good, theTURN has kept themselves sharp with a steady diet of live shows over 150 in the last year and a half. They have opened for acts such as Faber Drive, Mariana’s Trench, Lilix, the Trews, Ill Scarlet, and the Armchair Cynics. When it came time to record their first record they caught the attention of Frank Gryner and started crafting the album. “Recording in Vancouver at the Factory Studios and mixing in Hollywood at the Chop Shop was a great experience for us” says the band “we had a chance to really explore without limitations, we didn’t have to worry about the quality of the equipment or the tones we were getting it was all about capturing the right performance”. Hitting the road in spring 2008 theTURN is ready to set a new standard of west coast rock and bring it to the rest of Canada.
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