Wounded Lion

Wounded Lion

IVXLCDM

In The Red

Something is skulking through the toxic runoff of the entertainment capital of the world. With several 45s and last year’s debut LP, Wounded Lion established themselves as Los Angeles’ catchiest art-punk band. Fans love their exciting and weirdly direct live shows as well as their strange and original music videos, and the group is proof that genuine and cool music is alive in today’s LA underground—no longer must one rely on rad memories of the Urinals, Suburban Lawns or Wall of Voodoo.  The group’s sophomore album IVXLCDM is a total ripper. The Lion has grown smarter and meaner with the addition of Lars Finberg (chief Intelligence officer, original pounder for the A-Frames, and current drummer #2 for Thee Oh Sees) nailing it behind the drum kit and adding rich, fucked-futurist guitar action. Recorded by the singular Chris Woodhouse (Mayyors, Karate Party, etc.), the LP sounds dense and purposeful, with clattering, duel-Telecaster strum, tube-amp hum and feel-it-in-your-chest kick drum. IVXLCDM is without a doubt one of the best records of 2011—not just from Los Angeles or the underground, but from the entire spectrum of activity of living things in the universe.

Wounded Lion

S/t

In The Red

LP VERSION INCLUDES FREE DOWNLOAD COUPON!!! Los Angeles gets a bad rap. The city is known for shallow glitter, brutal cops and urban unrest--and sure, the stereotypes are sometimes accurate, but there are also lots of everyday folks, living unpretentious everyday lives. It's also true that Los Angeles is famous for a healthy underground music scene, both in the past and in the present. Take the everyday folks and drop them into an underground scene and you get something like Wounded Lion, a great no-frills pop band that sounds fresh, even when they remind one of classic American power-pop of the '70s. Inspired by The Velvets, The Cramps, The Clean and The Vaselines (as well as Credence Clearwater Revival and Kleenex), Wounded Lion is regularly seen at Los Angeles haunts such as Mr. T's Bowl, The Smell, The Scene and Spaceland. Their hum-inducing, toe-tapping tunes wiggle their way into your brain and have you singing their choruses at the grocery store or waiting in line at the DMV.The band's formula is relatively simple: shambling, alternately silly and poignant songs that bend and twist timeless pop hooks. The bass and guitars belch out raw distortion, lending the music a primitive quality, but a whimsical sensibility elevates the abrasiveness to a jubilant level. Wounded Lion writes pop songs that celebrate the unrefined, dispensing with ego and tapping into the primal areas of the brain."The LA-based quintet slams down the perfect prescription for your raw pop addiction with heavily contagious...

Wounded Lion

Friendly?

In The Red

Named after a Spanish fairy tale, Wounded Lion are the latest addition to the In The Red stable of artists. Hailing from the East Side of Los Angeles, this quintet administers the perfect prescription for your raw pop addiction. This new 7-inch features three heavily contagious songs--one original, "Friendly?," and two twisted covers, Wild Man Fischer's "Big Boots" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising." Imagine a hybrid of the Velvets, Cramps, Kiwi-pop, '70s punk and '80s post-punk and you start to get the picture...kinda. With songwriting and playing this effective, influences are secondary. Watch for Wounded Lion's debut LP on In The Red in 2010. "Wounded Lion's brand of charmingly timeless, lo-fi pop would fit nicely on a bill with Columbus bands like the Guinea Worms and Times New Viking.... [T]he band embodies the city's marvelously ass-backwards musical ideology, rejecting conventionally accepted aesthetics and approaches, to revel in an ecstatic indifference toward time, place, trend, and fashion. Wounded Lion's formula is relatively simple. The band writes shambling, alternately silly and poignant songs that bend and twist timeless pop hooks from the sixties onward." --Anomalous L.A. Blog