Artist description A raw and soulful collection of players join johnne perez On this new offering from the ex singer of North hollywood's own slush.10 songs recorded live, the only over dubs are a little shaker and some hand claps on a couple of tracks.A little bit of white soul rock and roll, love songs sung straight from the heart and howled into the L.A. night.

Music Style Exorcistic love songs and stories.

Musical Influences The Afghan Whigs, Loenard Cohen, Lou Reed, The rolling stones, Jeff Buckley, Johnathon richmond, nick cave.

Similar Artists The rolling Stones, the afghan Whigs, Lou reed, The replacements, jeff buckley, them.

Artist History Johnne perez & the contenders have been playing together for a little over a year and a half were all friends and we hang out not just cause we play music together.It's all done very loose and based in fun, we rehearse about once a month and go play some shows. all the songs are only 3 or 4 chords and eveyones a fan of the early stones and motown and iggy and all the great stuff that just has so much vibe to it.so I just trust that everyones gonna play with passion and forget what they're doing and get lost and that's when it really gets good.I mean its kinda hard to make mistakes in rock and roll, unless your Hall and Oatts.

Group Members Johnne perez/songwriter and sculpterGlenn fox / drums and outsider art paintertodd beeson/ bass and influencer on new mindsA.J.Jackson/ percussions and world class inline skater and community leader.Sometimes members/ Saar on piano, Barbara Cohen on backup vocals.G

Instruments several used ones and a few unused.

Albums Johnne perez- the girls I kissed.

Press Reviews "Johnne perez & the Contenders keeps things interesting with a dose of soul a la Afghan Whigs and the muy sassy presence of singer Johnne perez. perez is one part sensative romantic and one part sex machine" - the L.A. weekly" Definately a contender for movie of the year"- the L.A. times

Additional Info live versions of ameoba from the gigfeb 7th 2001

Location north hollywood, CA - USA

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