The Top 30 Emerging Musical Artists of Southern California

Web in Front (along with local writers such as Jax from Rock Insider, Mouse from CGT, Elaine Layabout and others) was recently asked by the music website Groupee to list our favorite 15 bands/artists in the L.A. area with the potential to emerge beyond the local scene. This week, Groupee published the list and, if you don’t mind us saying so (eight of our picks made the top 10), it’s a pretty stellar tapestry of varied and electric local music—if any of these bands somehow aren’t in your CD player, iPod, showgoing schedule, Myspace player, etc., rectify that immediately.

It should also be noted that Groupee is based out of Seattle; this is a list for the, say, uninitiated who don’t wake up with the Movies’ “Creation Lake” already stuck in their heads for the day, rather than the dedicated L.A. scenesters who’ve long adored these groups.

Groupee’s Emerging 30 SoCal Musicians

1. The Henry Clay People

2. Red Cortez

3. Avi Buffalo Music

4. The Happy Hollows

5. The Parson Red Heads

6. Afternoons

7. Radars to the Sky

8. The Sweet Hurt

9. The Voyeurs

10. Les Blanks

Click here to see the rest.

March 5, 2009 | Filed Under Features of 2009, Music News, Site News 

Comments

7 Responses to “The Top 30 Emerging Musical Artists of Southern California”

  1. Eddie Figueroa on March 5th, 2009 9:47 am

    was this list made up by a bunch of hipsters or something?
    ha.
    Silverlake, anyone?
    and Crystal Antlers?
    Signed to Touch and Go?
    I believe that means they were up and coming and now theyre just: ‘up’….
    at least you got Manhattan Murder Mystery and Seasons…
    tho I’d bet that had they never played a Silverlake/Echo Park venue there would be no sign of them on this here shitty list.

  2. boobookitty on March 5th, 2009 1:35 pm

    Maybe, Yourmom, the list is like this because Silver Lake and Echo Park are where the majority of good music in the Los Angeles area is coming from these days.
    Don’t see a lot of ground breaking or mind-blowing music coming out of the Key Club, now do we?
    Also – Silver Lake and Echo Park are where the HIGH majority of good venues are for indie/alternative bands.
    A lot of these bands do not live in Echo Park / Silver Lake – Henry Clay, for example, live in Glendale. A majority of The Parson Red Heads live in Hollywood.
    So sue them for going to where the good venues, playing good music, and getting recognized for it.

  3. Marcos on March 5th, 2009 3:07 pm

    On the real, fuck this poll and this new crop of Silver Lake bands and their bullshit scene with their myopic blogs documenting every shitty little bands every burp.

  4. boobookitty on March 5th, 2009 4:24 pm

    oh really, Marcos? is that why you spend time reading and commenting on one of those very blogs you diss?
    leave the poor bands alone. you wish you had 300+ people coming to your shows everytime you played a show. and where do you play? over at 14 Below in Santa Monica? that sounds fun.

  5. Eddie Figueroa on March 5th, 2009 5:38 pm

    ha. see, im not the only one. im w/marco. so what youre saying its either you play in echo park/silverlake or you dont matter???? ha. ignorance is bliss.
    these bloga are ridiculous. bullshit scene it is.

  6. choirgirl on March 5th, 2009 9:54 pm

    “ha. see, im not the only one.”

    really, ‘yourmom’? wow, you’ve certainly been vindicated–one other flamer on a blog’s message board agrees with you. victory!

    oh and as ridiculous as you find these “bloga,” the fact that you keep coming back just helps push traffic up.

  7. boobookitty on March 6th, 2009 11:12 am

    I’m not saying that if you don’t play Echo Park / Silver Lake then you don’t matter, I’m just responding to the fact that you seem to think if you DO have a place in the Echo Park / Silver Lake scene, then you are shit. And I’m merely pointing out that there happens to be an actual crowd of people who love to go see good music there. It is undeniable. And in my opinion, the other places in town to play aren’t great – I’ve played them. Bad experiences overall.




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