LOLA

Joe Black: Voice, Guitar

Patrick Fisher: Guitar, Noise

Sean Palm: Bass

Dave Daniel: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals

Mathematicians calculate that LOLA is too smart by precisely half. Whether this is in large part to do with their infectiously catchy pop songs or the brilliant textures that are expertly layered over and under those songs, one thing is certain: the band most assuredly ROCKS. Further proof is their live set which surpasses even their recorded output in its sheer volume and intensity.

Formed in October 2000, LOLA is the consolidation of some of Baltimore’s best and most enduring talent, whether it be Joe Black, a singer/songwriter extraordinaire (formerly of underground heroes GREENHOUSE and FOWL recording artists VENUS SPARKPLUG) or Pat Fisher (former CADDYWOMPAS, AT TEN PACES), a guitarist that will certainly redefine the role of “guitar god,” trampling on the same innovative ground as Jimmy Page, the Edge, and Johnny Marr. Hell, even the rhythm sections sports credentials that would belittle the most talented Nu-Metal automaton: bassist Sean Palm spent years as the bassist in the criminally funky PILTDOWN MEN and is considered to be one of the best undiscovered bass players on the east coast, drummer Dave Daniel simply personifies musical talent as a songwriter in his own right who feels as comfortable stage center with his own side project UPPER MELINDA as he does bashing the living crap out of his drum-kit onstage with LOLA. Besides that, he’s awfully cute too.

After coming out of a two year retirement, Joe Black met drummer Dave Daniel on the local Baltimore open-mic scene and the two began working on Black’s Beatles-meets-Radiohead-esque pop tunes, often hanging out at the infamous 8x10 drinking entirely too much gin with local guitarist Pat Fisher. Fisher, the booking agent for several local rock clubs, suggested that the three of them form a full group behind Black and forge out onto the mid-Atlantic music scene. Incidentally, the name itself is something of an enigma…one that Joe Black refuses to disclose offering, cryptically, that it is one of the following:

a)     A reference to a Russian People’s Army of a Stalingrad sniper who collected over 100 kills.

b)    A reference to a B’more drag queen who sports lame’ and rubs her crotch to the Kinks song of the same name.

c)     Joe Black’s vocal exercises: “LOLALOLALOLALOLALOLA.”

d)    The name of a Chinese beer that Black consumed daily when he lived in the barren hills of She yang, China.

Soon thereafter, the group went on to dazzle audiences at Baltimore’s 8x10, Philly’s Pontiac Grille, Philly’s The Fire, and NYC’s Mercury Lounge among many other less know venues. Along the way, the group has had the opportunity to open shows for rising stars like The Getaway People, Local H, ex-Spin Doctor Chris Barron, Angie Aparo, Tidewater Grain, Tabloid Nation, Mary Lou Lord, and Peter Cornell, brother of Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

Four months into the new millennium, LOLA have only set their sights higher than their already impressive achievements (for a six-month old band): in June they will ride their growing buzz into the Philadelphia music conference playing the Hard Rock Café for the conference’s party. After that, they’ll take off to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia to bring the people music that has been described by one local music critic as “the most beautiful, trashy, depressing, surreal, yet infectiously catchy pop music” anyone has heard since David Bowie hooked up with Mick Ronson or Radiohead learned how to play guitar.

For info or booking, please contact:
Mike Bohager, Manager
410-847-8098 

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