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Les Blanks
12+ albums
boogierock
about
When trademark issues came up over their name, Muso, the Los Angeles-based trio of Joshua Caldwell (vocals, guitar, harmonica, sax, wurlitzer), Parker Todd Brooks (bass) and Brian Soika (drums) looked to documentary filmmaker Les Blank for their new musical moniker. Their first offering as Les Blanks will come out in May in the form of full-length, Shoot The Horse. The group originated in Los Angeles after Caldwell and Brooks (friends who grew up together in Austin, TX), met Soika in 2004. Together they combined their collective love of blues, garage and punk and began playing and touring, including two tours of the southwest in conjunction with appearances at SXSW. Their stop at SXSW last year found them on air with Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips), who was acting as a field reporter for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Seizing the moment, the trio improvised a street performance complete with setting a toy drum kit ablaze. The antics created enough buzz to be picked up by the AP wire, and the New York Posts' Page Six photo spread on SXSW. In 2006, Les Blanks released their first full-length, Transmute after recording it in a garage in Reseda, CA. Last year, they unleashed the 12" EP Starry, which is for sale through Bomp Records (Brian Jonestown Massacre, Black Lips). Recorded over the course of January 07 through January 08, Shoot The Horse was mostly tracked and mixed at Stanley Recordings in Santa Monica, CA. Although the band has always been influenced by The Clash
