This bright eyed and bushy tailed Tulsa transplant is playing the Viper Room's acoustic lounge Tuesday, Feb. 22nd. $5 Advanced tickets, or $7 with a cd, are available through sundaylanetickets@gmail.com.
Sunday Lane's debut ep, Bring Me Sunshine, is an ode to just that. The album starts off with the pop drenched diddy "How Long It Takes", but it's apparent from the first lyric that Sunday's voice has integrity: a gentle gruffness reeled in by a nervously sad vibrato. Looks aside, you'd have me hard pressed to deny she sounds like the little sister of Tegan and Sara. I have a feeling that while her single "Won't Go Back Down" will get snapped up for TV usage (you might want to learn how to sing the hook now, to show off your music cred) however, the most striking song of the collection is "Heavy Heart, Heavy Hands". Perhaps I'm a sucker for sad songs but if there was any thoughts of this pop musician going through the motions like so many do, this song puts them to bed. Perfect for this rainy weekend.
Funeral Party blends punk aesthetics infused with a nuevo Indie vibe that blows the doors off The Strokes, Killers, and Arcade Fire. This LA group breeds a new crop of the next generations distain for the mundane. Released on March 29th, The Golden Age of Knowhere expresses the angst of youth and gives off the same vibrant energy you experience attending their live performances. The defiance, competitive nature, and taunting in "New York City moves to the Sound of LA" says it all. Every track on this album has a strength to it that when tied together play as a cohesively tight album. The stand out tracks are "Finale", "NYC Moves 2 the sound of LA", and "Youth & Poverty", but even that breakdown isn't fair given the great effort from this band on the verge. Funeral Party opens for Panic! at the Disco at The Wiltern, June 21st.
