Jhameel
More Amor, The New Limb, We Are / She Is
Mon, December 3, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
Bootleg Bar
Free - Mondays in December
Free
This event is 21 and over
http://www.foldsilverlake.com/event/185189/
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Jhameel - (Set time: 10:30 PM)
Jhameel was once set on the path to officer-ship in the United States Army. Although his linguistic skills in Arabic, Spanish, Korean, and Russian would have been highly rewarded in the military, Jhameel quit the program before signing an irrevocable contract due to personal beliefs about U.S. presence in the Middle East. He then earned a degree in Arabic from UC Berkeley within just two years, graduating summa cum laude. Immediately after, he began his career in music.
Jhameel creates explosively funky music comprised of soul-stirring guitar, immersive synthesizers, triumphant brass, and athletic, melodic vocals inspired equally by Prince and Michael Jackson. He plays each and every instrument on his records himself, creating catchy melodies that settle easily into your mind with human lyrical themes that continue to challenge the heart. Jhameel's skills extend to the mixing board too, as he produces his own music.
Jhameel's second album, The Human Condition propelled "Bernal Heights" and "The Human Condition" to the top of the Hype Machine Popular Charts. He followed up with the Dance EP, which featured the furiously energetic "Shut Up", a track that not only took over the Hype Machine charts once more, but became Forever 21's flagship song for the fall of 2011. In the winter of 2011, Jhameel presented his five song WAVES series, in which he released a new single every Tuesday for five weeks. The title track "Waves", reached #2 on both Hype Machine and We Are Hunted, while "Collision" was used in a national advertisement for Verizon's Droid RAZR. Jhameel showed true versatility with "White Lie", a hip-hop inspired pop song which reached #10 on Hype Machine.
"Jhameel's second LP, The Human Condition, is an album of classically-influenced pop that struggles gracefully with the big issues of our time. It's so graceful that it could put him in the running to be the voice of his generation." --MTV
Jhameel creates explosively funky music comprised of soul-stirring guitar, immersive synthesizers, triumphant brass, and athletic, melodic vocals inspired equally by Prince and Michael Jackson. He plays each and every instrument on his records himself, creating catchy melodies that settle easily into your mind with human lyrical themes that continue to challenge the heart. Jhameel's skills extend to the mixing board too, as he produces his own music.
Jhameel's second album, The Human Condition propelled "Bernal Heights" and "The Human Condition" to the top of the Hype Machine Popular Charts. He followed up with the Dance EP, which featured the furiously energetic "Shut Up", a track that not only took over the Hype Machine charts once more, but became Forever 21's flagship song for the fall of 2011. In the winter of 2011, Jhameel presented his five song WAVES series, in which he released a new single every Tuesday for five weeks. The title track "Waves", reached #2 on both Hype Machine and We Are Hunted, while "Collision" was used in a national advertisement for Verizon's Droid RAZR. Jhameel showed true versatility with "White Lie", a hip-hop inspired pop song which reached #10 on Hype Machine.
"Jhameel's second LP, The Human Condition, is an album of classically-influenced pop that struggles gracefully with the big issues of our time. It's so graceful that it could put him in the running to be the voice of his generation." --MTV
More Amor - (Set time: 8:30 PM)
More Amor is a band from Los Angeles & Las Vegas that plays sweet, fun, pop music. Following their last two releases, various mini-tours and mini breaks in the last four years, they are back with a new EP titled, “In Spanish”. Mixing electronic elements, clever lyrics within catchy pop songs creates what is heard when listening to More Amor. Check out the new ep available on itunes now.
The New Limb - (Set time: 9:30 PM)
Captivating audiences with an incredible live show, catchy hooks, four part harmonies and a creative approach to songwriting, The New Limb pull from a century’s worth of influences to make music that appeals to a wide range of listeners.
Named “Best Live Band” by The OC Weekly, KROQ raves “The New Limb’s lush, organically evocative indie-pop channels yearning as it feels in any moment you’ve had true desire,” going on to say the bands “gorgeously intense” music “sweeps you in with ecstatic Swede-couture electronica reminiscent of The Knife and moody indie twang like The Shins. Both the lyrics and Joey Chavez’ voice call to mind the boyish, literate theatrics of Rufus Wainwright.” LA Buzzbands says The New Limb “crunches hooky indie-pop into intricate arrangements with boy-girl vocals, strings and some tender piano work.”
The New Limb is currently working on a new full-length album with producers Nolan Sipe and Ryan Petersen.
Named “Best Live Band” by The OC Weekly, KROQ raves “The New Limb’s lush, organically evocative indie-pop channels yearning as it feels in any moment you’ve had true desire,” going on to say the bands “gorgeously intense” music “sweeps you in with ecstatic Swede-couture electronica reminiscent of The Knife and moody indie twang like The Shins. Both the lyrics and Joey Chavez’ voice call to mind the boyish, literate theatrics of Rufus Wainwright.” LA Buzzbands says The New Limb “crunches hooky indie-pop into intricate arrangements with boy-girl vocals, strings and some tender piano work.”
The New Limb is currently working on a new full-length album with producers Nolan Sipe and Ryan Petersen.
We Are / She Is - (Set time: 11:30 PM)
"We Are/She Is produces a soundtrack of singles that have everyone in the lesbian community talking, and feeling. A lot. (...) What’s true is that Southern California has an exact sound, be it garage rock, surf punk, chill-wave, or in a word: summer. We Are/She Is evokes a time and place many of us associate with good vibrations: be it high school parties, college nights when we watched The OC, or moments of enlightenment when we were coming of age. Maybe we still are. And that’s why an act like We Are/She Is finds its position with a young version of Tegan and Sara." Curve Magazine - http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2012/We-Are-She-Is-Feeling-the-Beat/
"Whether that entails becoming a successful band, an inspired human being, or great symbols of motivation, moxie, hope or happiness to fans, these are all qualities that We Are/She Is possess as both people and artists." - KROQ - http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2012/01/16/oc-music-awards-2012-we-areshe-is-hit-the-streets-running-with-inspired-80s-style-indie-synth-pop/
"Whether that entails becoming a successful band, an inspired human being, or great symbols of motivation, moxie, hope or happiness to fans, these are all qualities that We Are/She Is possess as both people and artists." - KROQ - http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2012/01/16/oc-music-awards-2012-we-areshe-is-hit-the-streets-running-with-inspired-80s-style-indie-synth-pop/
