“We love LA Font. If you don’t know them, you should reconsider a few things about your life, like whether or not you’re cool…They sort of sound like they’re from the 90s. But you know what else? They sound f**ing good.” – Noisey
“Garage rock with a pop influence, LA Font fills the niche for those who like indie tunes reminiscent of the mid-’90s.” – Los Angeles Times
“Already comparisons are being drawn between modern peers like Speedy Ortiz and ’90s influences like Built to Spill and Pavement. It’s a compliment to the band’s tight drum-bass combo and witty lyrics, yet a disservice to a group that’s clearly growing into its own sound.” Filter
Listen: “Motor Rally” via PureVolume or SoundCloud
LA Font, Los Angeles’s favorite distorted-guitar-singalong-with-the-windows-down band, are back with a new 7″ out July 29 on Kill/Hurt Records, a July residency at L.A. club The Satellite, and an East Coast tour to follow in August. Pure Volume has premiered the B-side to the 7″ “Motor Rally” and the track is also available to stream and share via SoundCloud. The “Teen Bazooka” 7″ is available for pre-order now in the Kill/Hurt Online Store. “Motor Rally” is a punky two-chord assault that recalls Parquet Courts with its rapid-fire punchlines poking fun at pointless machismo. “I’m Judge Dredd and I am the law / I own every spot in the parking lot,” singer Danny Bobbe says. Bobbe explains: “Motor Rally’s a two minute rock song about what it takes to become a motor cross champion. For one thing, your mom can’t be a chaperone at the prom.”
The A-side of the new 7″ is “Teen Bazooka.” It’s a 1994-esque hurricane of distorted guitars, a big nonsensical chorus that recalls the Pixies, Nirvana and Guided By Voices, and a tongue-in-cheek rebuke of all that nostalgia in the refrain, “Who cares about memories? They’re worth about nothing.”
What is a teen bazooka, anyway? “Teen bazooka is the weapon of choice for dispassionate annihilation – like saying, ‘the Grand Canyon sucks’ or ‘who cares about memories,'” LA Fontfrontman Danny Bobbe explains. “It’s not a life ethos, but it’s a handy tool to have in your arsenal.”
The Echo Park-based quartet LA Font is made up of Danny Bobbe (vocals/guitar), Jon Perry (guitar), Greg Katz (bass) and Harlow Rodriguez (drums). The band formed after Jon woke Danny up in the middle of the night by playing synthesizers loudly next door.
LA Font has played SXSW twice, toured the western U.S. in 2013, and will tour the east coast in August 2014. LA Font is also the house band for the alternative comedy show “Entitlement” at Club Los Globos in L.A., a show run by Vice Magazine writers, where the band have played alongside Reggie Watts, Marc Maron, Kyle Kinane, Maria Bamford and many others.
LA Font songs have been used on Showtime’s “House of Lies,” in a national film ad campaign, several MTV shows, in Steven Segall’s “True Justice” series, and in a forthcoming feature film starring Taylor Lautner, among other shows, movies and ads. Additionally, LA Font songs have been heard on every alternative radio station in Los Angeles including KROQ, KCRW, ALT 98.7, KXLU, KCSN, and non-commercial and alternative stations worldwide, including in rotation on Flux 100.6 FM Berlin.
LA Font has made four recordings: The American Leagues (2010, self-released), Sharks (2011, Sister City Records), Diving Man (2013, New Professor Music) and “Teen Bazooka” b/w “Motor Rally” (2014, Kill/Hurt Records). “Diving Man” was named the No. 2 song from L.A. in 2013 by Buzzbands.LA.
Upcoming LA Font Shows:
07/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite (July Residency)
07/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite (July Residency)
07/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite (July Residency)
07/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite (July Residency)
08/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
08/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ TBD
