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Lindberg’s driving baseline coupled with Stella Mozgawa’s drumming gives them an edge not totally realized on their albums.Īnd new drummer, Mozgawa seems to be the missing piece of the puzzle. Seeing them live, though, has proven that they can also be pretty badass rockers. They can be ethereal and haunting, poetic and raw, but still sound playful and impish at the same time. The wave of plaid and skinny jeans extended almost stage to door, which was a little surprising since Philadelphia can be so finicky when it comes to making bands feel welcome in our fair, fickle city.Īlthough they’ve been put in the “psychedelic rock” classification, they cover a lot of ground on the sound spectrum.

Not surprising, since the ladies hail from Silverlake, California, a hipster mecca near Los Angeles. They rolled through Philadelphia this past Friday night, playing at the TLA, and the hipster crowd was out in force.

Warpaint live up to the attention that’s been paid to them. However, saying Warpaint are hype-darlings would imply that the hype isn’t true.

With all this name dropping and musical incest going on, it’s easy to see how Warpaint has caught media attention without releasing very much. Then, filling in on drums after Sossaman left was Josh Klinghoffer, who was also of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame (it’s been recently reported that Frusciante has formally quit the Chili Peppers…again, and Klinghoffer is his permanent replacement), and dating bassist (and Sossaman’s sis) Jenny Lee Lindberg at the time. Their first EP, Exquisite Corpse, was released under John Frusciante’s label. Licking my wounds after not getting to do an interview with Warpaint, the all-fem quartet hailing from Los Angeles, California, I latched onto one reviewer’s labeling them as “hype-darlings.” It’s not hard to see why. Their original drummer was actress Shannyn Sossaman, which put them into the search engine lexicon from the onset.

John frusciante's sister lily frusciante