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Warpaint

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Location: Los Angeles, CA

Website: http://myspace.com/worldwartour

Bio: Los Angeles' mystical Warpaint weave majestic, haiku-like guitars, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes ... (more) of psychedelia/shoegaze, the haunting intimacy of folk, and rock's primal heaviness. At the core of the band are childhood friends Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman who both met bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg at a commercial casting audition in LA. The trio quickly traded in their headshots for guitars and the fertile, diverse LA music scene has been much better for it since.
Playing to many captivated audiences in LA, Warpaint has recently opened for acts like Little Joy, The Black Heart Procession, The Slits, among many others and earlier this year they self-released their debut EP "Exquisite Corpse" going straight to # 1 on the Amoeba local artists charts. While already a much buzzed about entity in LA, Warpaint are just beginning to stir the masses with recent national (and international) praise from the FADER, The Independent UK, Dazed and Confused, and URB. Also, the increasingly relevant LA label Manimal Vinyl (Hecuba, Rainbow Arabia) will be giving "Exquisite Corpse" an official release on vinyl/CD this September complete with a new bonus track. Expertly mixed by John Frusciante, the EP successfully captures the band's sonic textures and playful dynamism Warpaint is notorious for creating live. 
Recently, the band solidified their live line-up with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer now in tow (the bands lineage of drummers have previously included DJ David Orlando and Jenny Lee's sister Shannyn Sossamon). Onstage, Warpaint’s disarmingly authentic package can shake a room into a dance frenzy—while simultaneously holding it in a trance-like dreamworld. With plans to tour throughout the end of of 2009, Warpaint are poised to win over new fans willing to join them on their complex, melodic, dark odyssey. (less)