From Bakersfield to Joshua Tree, California has long offered its own take on country music. Los Angeles based Broadcast Station honors this tradition while offering its own take on the genre. Singer and guitarist Ryan Herbert and drummer William Fowler cut their teeth in the LA music scene with punk band The Capshuns. Following the band's break up in 2010, Herbert and Fowler aimed for a different direction, one rooted in both rock & roll and country music. Inspired by a sound that has become synonymous with California, Broadcast Station creates their own blend of the two genres. The band recently shared the bill with grammy winner Zac Brown and county artist Sonia Leigh and is working with producer Eric Lilavois on their debut EP, due out in May. The EP will be supported by a tour following its release.

"Singer-songwriter Matthew Kaner owes it all to wine — well, his band name Liquid Love Letter, anyway, not to mention his alliances with many of the people who inspired and collaborated on LLL’s debut album “If/Then,” released today. The seeds of Kaner’s earnest, finely honed Americana, which recalls a duskier Grant-Lee Phillips, were planted when he moved to L.A. in 2006 and, confronted by a crowded singer-songwriter scene, found himself working at Silverlake Wine. Wine bars, as he’ll tell you now, are no finer places to meet artists, and Kaner made friends. He got started in earnest on Liquid Love Letter after an “ah-hah” moment in the movie “Blood Into Wine,” a documentary about musician/vintner Maynard James Kennan. In 2010, with Chris Testa (Dixie Chicks, Jimmy Eat World) handling production, Kaner began making an album that would feature appearances by John Gold, drummers Joey Waronker and Aaron Sterling (John Mayer, Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Bareilles and more), My Morning Jacket’s Bo Koster, M83′s Morgan Kibby, Everest’s Jason Soda, Erik Arvinder, David Kalish and Ben Peeler. It’s a record of sweeping anthems, tender confessionals and soulful twang. A good soundtrack for a wine bar? Maybe, and maybe a little more." - Buzzbands LA