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Artist
Ari Shine
12+ albums
rockpopsinger-songwriterlos angelesVeronica Mars
about
Ari Shine was born in Pennsylvania but grew up splitting his time between Northern California and Israel where he learned to play guitar. While always a singer/songwriter tunesmith at heart, Ari cut his teeth playing heavy rock and roll as a sideman before embarking on his own journey. As a teenage member of Granite Path, precursors to the current heavy psychedelic boom, a young Ari opened for acts like Melvins, Kyuss and Cathedral before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his own songwriting. While there he partnered up with L7 bass player and Rock For Choice founder Jennifer Finch forming The Shocker, a girl-fronted punk act which gigged hard in the States gaining coverage on numerous MTV shows. Ari's final stop prior to launching his solo career was a short tenure in The Chelsea Smiles, a Capitol-signed garage act which toured with Fu Manchu, the Seeds, the Von Bondies and X, then a year co-writing with Victor Indrizzo (Beck, Dave Gahan) and Martyn Lenoble (Porno for Pyros, The Cult) and producer Gavin MacKillop (Goo Goo Dolls, The Church, Las). Hitting the ground running with his debut solo release, the 2006 EP Age/Occupation, he immediately earned comparisons to a young Elvis Costello from both Village Voice and Time Out. Tastemakers such as Burbank rock radio institution KROQ and onetime Rolling Stones mentor and producer Andrew Loog Oldham began to enthusiastically espouse Shine's music on their airwaves, and constant touring attracted devoted fans on both sides of the
