Leftover Cuties, the Los Angeles-based band who is quickly gaining a dedicated following, can be heard in a number of different outlets. That theme song for The Big C on Showtime? Yep, that s their Game of Life song. Ever watch Justified on FX? Yep, the show has played their Through it All. That Samsung commercial for the Olympics? You get the idea.
The band has found tremendous success in a relatively travel short cuts short time. The individual travel short cuts roots of each band member are quite varied, stretching from Israel to Kentucky. But they call Los Angeles home and are frequent presences in the clubs and concert halls along the Pacific Coast. They re currently finishing up a mini-residency at the Cosmpolitan in Las Vegas, and then they re headed for Venice, Claremont and Pioneertown, Calif.
travel short cuts I say the ukulele is the culprit, wrote drummer Stuart Johnson in an email. Austin (Nicholsen), the upright bass player, took it up as a comical counterpoint to already playing the largest instrument onstage. Shirli travel short cuts (McAllen), travel short cuts having been raised in Israel, had never really seen a ukulele in person. They wrote a song within the first few minutes of fooling around with it.
From that initial travel short cuts jam session (if such a term can be used for ukulele playing), Leftover travel short cuts Cuties began to evolve. Johnson heard the new song while listening on his front porch, and his mind started racing to find the appropriate percussion. He founded a vintage calfskin drum set and a box of radio foley. Then, like cooks in search of the final ingredients, travel short cuts the burgeoning travel short cuts band added Mike Bolger who played horns and piano.
The sound of Leftover Cuties is really just the sound that we make naturally together, Johnson wrote. I m usually tripping out on Shirli s voice and just letting go, or watching Austin whip his upright like a derby thoroughbred, haha. Mike actually shoots lightening bolts out of the end of his trumpet! Pretty exciting. The style comes quite intuitively for us.
One of the challenges for Johnson is properly categorizing Leftover Cuties music. I know our music is fun to play, even more fun to dance around to, and oddly enough appropriate for all ages, Johnson wrote. Just ask Brad Wilke the drummer from Rage Against the Machin(e), I have spied him on more than one occasion rocking travel short cuts out in the front row of the audience with his little kids.
The success travel short cuts of the band has not come without dedication to the music, both from the members of Leftover Cuties and the public as well. I mean, we always hoped it would reach an audience, Johnson wrote. I believe travel short cuts that any time you can share something travel short cuts that you enjoy so much with new people you meet and see them smiling and dancing then it s a great day, right? Luckily it has been like that for us since the beginning, and the crowd gets bigger all the time. Our breaks with TV theme songs and commercials have been great signs too that what we are doing is actually connecting with people.
McAllen s voice on the tracks is unique and almost indescribable. It slips into the ears of the listeners, always welcomed and somehow tantalizingly pure. The voice has a crispness to it, as if it s forever stuck in a transistor radio or vinyl record — the type of sound that rocks one to sleep.
Her musical inspirations are quite varied. I m inspired by everything travel short cuts and everyone that crosses my way, McAllen wrote in an email. Places, people, experiences, feelings, film and music. You never know what will start up the next song. As far as musical inspiration, it changes all the time. Recently I ve been listening to a lot of 60 s music like Doris Day, Leslie Gore, Patti Page and off course (sic) lots of Beatles.
They are mostly identified with Los Angeles, if no other reason than that s the city where the synergy was born. But when experiencing Leftover Cuties live, the audience receives a little bit of everything travel short cuts from a little bit of everywhere.
travel short cuts Shirli is from Israel, Austin is from New York State, I (Stuart) am from Kentucky, and Mike is our native Angeleno, Johnson wrote. This city means something different to us all, but the unifying theme is that we all love it here. The waves, the mountains, the crazy silver-screen culture, the like-minded people who came from other places to follow their dreams. Stepping off the plane or the tour bus to land once again on California soil is always a comforting feeling. And always inspiring. You never know what waits around the corner for you here.
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