The Icarus Line

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THE ICARUS LINE (Los Angeles, CA)

These hellions, have been touring/recording/hiding/again and again since 1998. The band came from various middle to low income areas of Los Angeles; started as a high school punk group and eventually a world wide act despite little to no financial support from formal institutions. Even while signed to semi major V2 the band resorted to living with friends and deplorable hotels in the worst parts of Hollywood. For over ten years the band has shown its face in various forms, made critically acclaimed records, toured the world and then seemingly vanished for years on end.

Their new album WILDLIFE presents the newest chapter in a bizarre saga of sonic ambition and utterly stubborn will. A rock n' roll nuke followed by a couple months of radiated fallout. This record did not just make itself and get into your hands by accident today, it was written, produced and recorded under the constant threat of extinction. It is another document from a distant corner of Los Angeles that believes in Rock N' Roll music as art and religion.

If you love Iggy, If you miss Roxy Music, if you feel Funkadelic, if you need a flash of danger in your life, if you want a little lust around, if you love Rock N' Roll music that is actually made by motivated fuck ups who had no other choice, then this is for you.

"A great rock 'n' roll show. Sleazy, poisonous, dirty, dangerous. Rock 'n' roll, in the way that it should mean when you say it.....The Icarus Line are a band who look like they believe. Believe in what they're doing. Believe in the shit that they're shovelling. And they believe it with such unshakable certainty that you will too." - MusicOMH

http://theicarusline.org/