Lauren Martinez = Pop.  At 22 years old, the Indie Pop Songwriter has garnered acclaim performing at venues such as the the world famous The Loews Hollywood Hotel, Viper Room, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, etc. Lauren has worked with DMG Hollywood Records and Ophelia Records. Shes adorned by growing list of accomplished Hollywood music producers as a prized songwriter/collaborator. She has landed placements in shows including Riverdale and Siren. Her music has been played in stores across the world at H&M, Marks and Spencer’s, Bershka, The Body Shop, and more!
      Lauren is a classical pianist and also plays banjo, guitar, as well as some violin, ukelele, native american flute, cajon, conga drums, and mandolin. She produces in Ableton Live9. She's also worked as a session musician and background vocalist.
​      Besides her passion for music, Lauren is a southwestern oil painter, selling and donating artwork to people across the country. She has also sold her jackets in stores on Melrose!

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Sarah’s early exposure to mainstream pop music as a child of the 90s, the blues and rock’n roll cassette tapes on rotation in the Ford Bronco driven by her hippy parents, and her enigmatic Russian Doukhobor ancestry—a heritage preserved through psalm singing— all played a significant role in shaping her keen connection to music and song, developing singing and performance as a profoundly spiritual form of expression. Her rich and dynamic vocals are the etchings of ongoing personal growth and creative self-discovery. 

She is the lead vocalist in the Alt-Soul band Penny Shades, has recorded vocals as a session singer for numerous bands around the country, works remotely as a voice-actor, and is no stranger to large stages in the BC Festival Circuit. She can also be found singing with the nationally renowned electro-folk act Moontricks on their debut album tour.

Sunshine Brothers Inc., Coolhand Jax, and other musings.

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Kilson Street is a series dedicated to presenting Bands from So Cal and Around the World, with a slight bit of comedy, reviews, city tours, and other debauchery. Catch us here or on YouTube for Video. 

New Album 'Preservation of The Spirit' out 5/18, pre-order vinyl here: http://www.therealdoncat.com

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DONCAT is Duncan Nielsen, a San Francisco based songwriter and performer with a penchant for rock, soul and folk stylings. His songs draw from the deep history of California counter-culture music and discuss both the hope and uncertainty of the American dream in kaleidoscopic cynicism.

Duncan Nielsen has sported the moniker ‘DONCAT’ since 2013. Since then he’s lived in a vista-abundant neighborhood in San Francisco, CA, just south of Haight-Ashbury perched on a hill. From almost anywhere in his house the eye can reach the eastern edge of the city, as well as downtown. On most days, just on the shoulders of the hill behind his house, fingers of heavy fog quietly creep in. He spends a lot of time just sitting in what he calls the Princess Room - a small, light, airy box of windows - staring out at the panoramic view.

“Sometimes I have a guitar in my hands but I'm not even playing. Like, I forget to play cause I'm just lost in my head and simultaneously staring at the view. I do get things done though, lots of demoing and writing up there.”

Nielsen’s youth both informs and structures his meditative songwriting process. He was raised with horses on acres of land in a pristine, quiet valley, away from the asphalt upbringing of his elementary school chums. As a kid, he spent the lion’s share of his time mucking stalls, playing basketball (his coach gave him dribbling goggles but they were useless in a dirt and gravel driveway) and channeling classic rock on a crappy Squire guitar while his older brother played drums.

His growing affinity for the golden age of music only continued to separate him from his peers. In junior-high, he gifted Led Zeppelin I at a birthday party and was ostracized. By the time he entered high school, he found himself as the token kid-with-a-guitar: loved by all and known by none. This bolstered his penchant for writing iconoclastic songs, as well as skipping high school to surf alone.

These days, Nielsen moves from his grandmother’s Wurlitzer piano to his father’s hand-me-down acoustic guitar writing songs at home. He sits in front of a four-track cassette recorder and gets the bones of his songs together with the minimal offerings of that dusty, anachronistic piece of gear.

Upcoming release 'Preservation of The Spirit' is a brief 8 tracks, but delivers concise themes of artifice, modern myth, disintegrating social fabric, and, as the title namely outlines, preserving ones spirit when it's time to, well, face the music. Each song is a distinctly American narrative rife with poignant satire. In 'Once I Went to Las Vegas' Nielsen sings, "I'm smoking cigars in a cheap suit/eating foie gras in a restaurant, five stars/are these my lucky cards?" The album shifts casually between swirling, hypnotizing textures and reckless, loud, electric-guitar bravado - a tasteful blend and welcome progression from his earlier, folkier leanings.

Nielsen's fourth effort to date explores a more live approach to recording, showcasing the talents of his band of four years.  Current members include Chris Sugiura on bass, Kyle Kelly-Yahner on drums, and Jesse Cafiero on keys.  The bulk of it was recorded at Phil Manley-owned El Studio - yes, as in The Studio - over the course of 5 long days.

To date, Nielsen’s songs have been featured in network television series and independent films such as Jessica Biel's "The Sinner," ABC's "Nashville" and "Through The Rye." He’s opened shows for The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, Hayden, and Julia Holter. He's done several nationwide tours as guitarist, vocalist and keyboard player for Geographer. 'Preservation of The Spirit' is due out May 18th via Marble Eye Music.

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“Their new LP sounds like an army of talented musicians and producers descended upon the project...a big, ambitious album in an age when most indie bands are scaling back due to either financial limitations or purposeful creative choice"   -The Bay Bridged blog

"EVEN TENOR" OUT NOW VINYL & DIGITAL
https://growwler.bandcamp.com/album/even-tenor

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