Phil Murphy is a songwriter, born in Toronto Ontario, playing music in Edmonton, Alberta.  He began playing music at the age of three and writing music at the age of nine.  He is the former front man for such acts as Cerveja and Nobody Likes Dwight who collectively have shared stages with acts like Nazareth, Jordan Cook, Sum 41, State of Shock and numerous others.  He released his first solo album in 2004, (Picture Show for Dummies), at Sound Extractor Studios with Stew Kirkwood.  A new album is in the works with Nick Zyla at Mr. Studio in Edmonton Alberta.  No date has been set for release as of yet.

the high score is the chip hop collage side-quest of vov abraxas.
there is also a vov abraxas soundcloud, link provided below.


the spooks of hazard is a band that switches instruments during songs and makes a lot of stuff up while they're going along.
vov abraxas, jess horricks, kriev, j. strum and sometimes alan guise.

Double Sided Mirror- Remixes Out now!

For show inquiries please email coldbeatcoldbeat@gmail.com

Combining stark post-punk instrumentation, lush melodies, and abstract yet vivid songwriting, Cold Beat is the project of singer/songwriter/bassist Hannah Lew. From the beginning, Cold Beat dove into big-picture topics: On 2014's Over Me, she explored the death of her father and loss in general on compact, driving songs that harked back to the heyday of Tubeway Army, Blondie, and the Sound (whose song "Cold Beat" gave Lew's project its name). The changing face of her hometown San Francisco in the wake of tech companies' success informed 2015's Into the Air, which added jangly indie pop, Motorik, and minimal synth experiments to Lew's repertoire. The electronic elements of Cold Beat's music only grew as the years passed, with 2020's Mother reflecting the influence of Eurythmics -- as well as Lew's own motherhood -- on its polished, expansive meditations.
Lew began writing Cold Beat songs in the late 2000s while playing with the acclaimed San Francisco trio Grass Widow and establishing herself as a filmmaker and visual artist. When the band went on hiatus after releasing 2012's Internal Logic, Lew focused on Cold Beat in earnest. She took Neon Piss guitarist Kyle King, Shannon & the Clams guitarist/synth player Cody Blanchard,

and former Grass Widow drummer Lillian Maring into the studio to record November 2013's Worms/Year 5772, a set of songs touching on the death of her father and her own insomnia. The first release on Lew's Crime on the Moon label, it also featured a remixes by POW! and Total Control's Mikey Young, with whom Lew forged a long-running creative partnership. Lew continued her meditations on grief with Cold Beat's first full-length, July 2014's Over Me. Recorded by Trans Am's Phil Manley and mixed and mastered by Young, it found Lew backed by King and Erase Errata drummer Bianca Sparta.
Cold Beat's lineup and sound continued to evolve quickly. Just over a year after the release of Over Me, the band returned with September 2015's Into the Air, which featured drummer Susi Leni and guitarist Jackson Blumgart alongside Lew and King. Partly influenced by San Francisco's rapid gentrification thanks to the tech boom, the album boasted a more electronic-based sound that informed the Cold Beat albums that followed. Lew wrote and recorded most of 2017's more intimate Chaos by Invitation on her own, later bringing in Manley, Young, King, and Blumgart for additional tracking. In August 2018, Cold Beat returned with A Simple Reflection, an EP of Eurythmics covers that expanded the group's lineup to include King, guitarist Sean Monaghan and keyboardist Luciano Talpini Aita. The EP's lush, synth-driven sound laid the musical groundwork for the band's fourth album. Mother, which was inspired by Lew's pregnancy as well as the tumultuous state of the world, was released by DFA in February 2020.

Crime On The Moon is a record label run by Hannah Lew. Releases include:

COTM001 Cold Beat -Worms/Year 5772 EP
COTM002 Bridge Collapse- Wilderness/Blockbreaker 7"
upcoming releases include:
COTM003 Cold Beat - Over Me LP out July 8th
COTM004 San Francisco Is Doomed Compilation out June 24th
COTM005 Synthetic ID Escapement 7" out August 11th.






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