DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM NOW:: hobartwfink.bandcamp.comnnThanks to MAGNET for debuting our new music video for THE FIGHT / WE LIE featuring animat...
DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM NOW:: hobartwfink.bandcamp.comnnThanks to MAGNET for debuting our new music video for THE FIGHT / WE LIE featuring animation of epic events, plus a very rowdy children's birthday party, interwoven with a personal tale of the demise of a relationship. Many of the album's songs are based on the two lead singers' unsuccessful attempts at romance with each other, and the video explores the pain of these mistakes while laughing at the absurdity of how seriously we can take ourselves.nn"Hobart W Fink plays lots of mosh-worthy licks" - CMJnn"robust ... hard-driving indie-rock, spiked with ’90s-style riffage, tempo changes and twining boy/girl vocals" -- Buzzbands.LAnn"How can you not adore ... Hobart W Fink" -LA RecordnnHobart W Fink is indie grunge rock w a disaffected punk aesthetic. Crystalline vocal harmonies emerge from gutsy, cutting garage rock. Their debut LP "Back and Forth Forever" is recorded and mixed by Chris Kasych (Wavves, Phantogram, Vampire Weekend, Haim, P!nk, Santigold) on a vintage '74 Neve board and mastered by Alex DeYoung (Macy Gray, NOFX, Pennywise). Lead single "So Many Losers" debuted on KROQ Rodney On The Roq, and on Buzzbands KCSN. Both the single and album have charted in the top 20 on both KKBB and FMQB charts, and debuted at #174 on CMJ.nnWith two lead singers, Jayk Gallagher and Lauren Lakis, the band blends touches of The Strokes, Interpol, and Queens of The Stoneage, with such disparate influences as Elliott Smith, Nirvana, and Ben Gibbard in an eclectic stew. Fans have likened HWF's sound to a combination of X, The B-52's, and Sonic Youth. nn"Hobart W Fink has risen through the ranks of the LA music scene at an incredibly fast rate. ... From newcomers to veterans without losing any of their hunger." -- Hunnypot Radionn"Back And Forth Forever" is straight-forward, unabashed rock with just a hint of irony. Hobart W Fink delivers their fun, no-frills brand of garage rock which treads the line between punk and grunge, apathy and enjoyment. (Noe Santiago on Bass, AJ Brown on Drums.) Buzzbands LA called Hobart W Fink's single and music video for SO MANY LOSERS, released in June, "Smashing!" and The Deli LA called it "hard hitting and fun" -- in the video 25 of HWF's friends smash televisions with reckless abandon and mosh their troubles away.nnRocking SXSW parties and shows all over Southern California, including headlining slots at Echo Park Rising, Make Music Pasadena, Venice Music Crawl, Buzzbands.la Chinatown Nights and other festivals, and opening for national acts like Good Riddance at The Velvet Jones in Santa Barbara, the band debuted at The Satellite, killed residencies at Harvard and Stone, Casey's, and Lot 1, and has played The House of Blues LA, The Roxy, The Viper Room, The Echo, The Satellite, Harvard and Stone, The Smell, El Cid, The Virgil, The Mint, Silver Lake Lounge, Casey's Irish Pub, The Airliner, Central SA+PC, The Lexington, Kaos Network, Echo Country Outpost and many more. HWF has toured to San Diego, Long Beach, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Austin, and all around the west coast. HWF has garnered rave reviews in CMJ, Buzzbands.LA, The Deli Magazine, Emerging Indie Bands UK, and many international press sources.nnTheir songs have played on radio stations across the country, including KROQ, KCSN, KCR, IndependentFM, KJEE, KEDG, WSCA, WVMM, CHMR, KHOL, KRFP, KSDB, KTCU, KTXT, KXTR, WGLS, WIDR, WMHB, WVMM, KXRN, KJEE, WCHZ, WKZQ, WPNH, YNOT, and many more.nnHWF's past singles "Final Fantasy 7", and "Hundred Dollar Bill" have debuted on 88.9 KXLU, 88.5 KCSN, Moheak Radio, Buzzbands.LA and AM1630 KCHUNG, and they were nominated for Artist of the Month by The Deli Magazine. The music video for "Final Fantasy 7" was shot in Peru and New Orleans and featured the singers in Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, Bourbon Street and more. Kevin Bronson of Buzzbands called it "One heck of a travelogue." Less
