Our first project is The Bombshell Alliance, a 1940’s style pin-up calendar and accompanying compilation CD featuring Los Angeles based female musicians.  All profits from the sale of the calendar will be donated to Sojourn Services for Battered Women and their Children.  Additionally, I Heart intends to use profits earned from the calendar’s launch party to create a one-year scholarship for a young girl to attend The Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The  sold-out! launch party was held at The Hotel Café in Hollywood, CA, on the evening of November 15 8pm.   

The Girls of The Bombshell Alliance 

January - Charlotte Martin
Circumstances changed for Charlotte in the two years since she began writing and recording songs for her most recent release, Stromata. After five years and two releases on RCA Records-the EP In Parentheses (2003) and the full-length On Your Shore (2004)-Charlotte left the label in early 2005. Undeterred, she released the Darkest Hour and Veins EPs on Test-Drive Records that same year, and embarked on headlining tours in support of each. Along the way, Charlotte married her longtime collaborator and co-producer, Ken Andrews (Pete Yorn, Year of the Rabbit, Failure). Together, they formed Dinosaur Fight Records and aligned the new venture with Fontana Distribution.

"...the opera world's loss is pop music's gain." – People

"A seductive performer. A skilled lyricist who writes with surgical precision." – Details

"Stromata follows adventurous suit...reveling in wild time signatures and stark, synthesized percussion, its only constant her unadorned, operatically trained vocals." – Paste


February - Arrica Rose & the …’s
Arrica Rose has been garnering a wealth of glowing reviews since the release of her self-produced EP Auto-pilot. It was this recording that solidified the presence of Rose's band and led her to producer Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney). Together Crane and Rose produced People Like Us (pOprOck records 2006) the bands debut full-length album. Last Night on Earth, Arrica Rose’s highly anticipated follow-up EP (produced by Rose and band-member Jason A. Mezilis) is now creating its own buzz - including charting on college/indie radio across the country.

“Rose's brand of slow, soulful rock shines" -Venus Magazine

"The last two bands I latched onto this quickly were the White Stripes and Modest Mouse. I now have another one. Los Angeles based Arrica Rose and the Dot, Dot, Dot's”- The Daily Sun

“In just over 18 minutes you’ve had a journey worth going on. You’ve been to nirvana and hades and back again to earth and you just want to go again. Arrica Rose & the …’s have crafted a near perfect  ep in Last Night of Earth.” -Pop Syndicate


March - Quincy Coleman
 “L.A.-based singer-songwriter Quincy Coleman, best known so far for a song heard in the film Crash and airplay on KCRW, sings and writes up a charismatic storm on her newly released second album, Come Closer." –Joseph Woodard, Santa Barbara News
 
Quincy Coleman regularly sells out local Los Angeles venues such as the Temple Bar, the Mint, and the influential Hotel Café. Currently her buzz is expanding beyond Southern California into both the national and international spotlight. Her song, Give it Away is on an upcoming UK compilation entitled Beautiful Embrace, which also features Bryan Adams and Sarah McLaughlin.

“The melodies are pop but the arrangements- with organs and horns bursting out of nowhere- elevate the tunes far above the ordinary.”
 -Billboard
 
April - Laura Martin
 Laura Martin, a native of Nebraska, has been playing in and around Los Angeles for the last 7 years at venues ranging from the legendary House of Blues and Viper Room to the intimate Genghis Cohen and Hotel Cafe. This year, she voiced the character of the graphic novel goddess, Uberbabe, in the upcoming Sugarlab cd release and sang a session for DreamWorks’s Shrek the Third. Tide and Moon, a collaborative effort with Harry Gregson-Williams, was featured in the independent movie, the Uninvited. In 2006, she licensed an original song to the WB.
 
"Fearless and extraordinary" -David C. Nichols, LA Times


May - Angela Correa of Correatown 
Angela Correa, is a singer/songwriter who commonly performs under the moniker Correatown, which is also the title of her 2005 self-released CD. 

Angela has been “singing, songwriting, and playing music in one form or another” since she was a child.  That long-term dedication has begun to pay off as the track Super Bad Airplanes, from the aforementioned Correatown has received airplay on ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters, while another track Hardship to be a (Souvenir), has been heard on CBS’s popular crime drama Without a Trace.

Correa has recently locked in a Wednesday night residency for November, 2007 at LA hotspot Bordello and will be releasing a new EP soon.

In addition to her solo efforts, Angela plays in the “super rad groups,” The Low Standards, and Les Shelleys.


June - Abby Kincaid of Penny Relentless
Abby Kincaid, has been kicking around Los Angeles as a side(wo)man guitarist for the last six years.  She has played, toured, and recorded with the following acts:  Boink!, Atomic Bitch, Lola, The Bitter Things, Gayle Day, Angie Smith, Warped Tour staples Shiragrrl, and Arrica Rose
and the …’s, with whom she occasionally co-writes. 

You may have heard her playing on tracks from the movie Who’s Your Daddy, starring Ali Landry and Justin Berman and on your local college radio station with either Boink! or Arrica Rose and the …’s.   


Over the course of her career, Abby has worked with producers Dan Garcia (Don Henley, Brian Ferry), Larry Graham (Elliott Smith, Sleater Kinney), Tommy Henriksen (Revis, The Audio Club), and Emmy award winner Tim Brickley.

She is the creative force behind LA rock band Penny Relentless.  PR will release it’s second EP, titled “The Trial of Penny Relentless: volume ii” in December, 2007.
 

July - Lissie
Lissie, a singer/ songwriter residing in Hollywood, California, initially garnered attention when the song All My Life, co-written with DJ Harry received heavy college radio play and tv placement on popular Fox shows The OC, and Veronica Mars, and in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car.

Soon after this initial success, Lissie moved to Los Angeles, where, through a fortunate chain of events, she was introduced to Guy Oseary, who signed her to Maverick Records.

After signing with Maverick, Lissie began working with acclaimed producer Glen Ballard, a relationship that continues today. 

Lissie’s deal with Maverick evaporated in November 2006 when the label went out of business. But Lissie has been undeterred.  Her music will be featured in the upcoming film Wedding Daze, starring Jason Biggs and Isla Fischer and on the season finale of the ABC family channel show, Wildfire.  Additionally, she is currently writing and recording an album to be released through her imprint label Lionboy Records in conjunction with one of the major labels currently pursuing her.


August - Meiko
Los Angeles based (by way of Georgia) singer-songwriter Meiko’s self-titled debut EP is creating quite a stir, including amassing rave reviews and hitting the top 100 on iTunes.

"I arrived in time to catch a gorgeous set from Meiko, a waitress at Hotel Café and from what I heard last night, my pick for their next big success story. If Nic Harcourt hasn’t begun to champion her yet on his 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' show, it’s just a matter of time." -Josh Jackson, Paste Magazine

There’s a female we’ve been supporting based out of Los Angeles named Meiko.” - Nic Harcourt, KCRW, Los Angeles

"If you like singer/songwriters then you will be foaming at the mouth for Meiko"-Perez Hilton


September - Liz McGrath of Miss Derringer
Liz McGrath is the lead singer for Miss Derringer, an LA cow-punk band “heavily influenced by American music of the late-50s and early-60s, particularly the vintage sounds of outlaw country performers like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, and the girl group pop of the Ronettes and Shangri Las. The band also finds inspiration in the music and attitude of early punk bands like the Misfits and Black Flag.”

Miss Derringer has released two albums with Lone Gone John’s legendary Sympathy for the Record Industry, the same label that released early recordings of mega-stars The White Stripes.   

Their newest album, Lullabies, features drummer Clem Burke from Blondie and is co-produced by Derrick O'Brien formerly of Social Distortion and currently in The Adolescents.’

Miss Mcgrath is a well-known and respected artist of the underground scene.  A book of her work titled Everything that Creeps was recently published by Last Gasp.


October - Jonneine Zapata
Jonneine Zapata is not one to give much biographical information. Whether this is out of an honest humility or the desire to shroud her in mystery, it has not prevented her from gaining notoriety. Perhaps it was that very mystique that landed her the opening slot for the Raconteurs last year.

 Probably the most striking thing about Jonneine Zapata and her music, other than that of her voice itself, is the honesty that they both possess. Jonneine's message is one of love, loss, sexuality and life itself, and she delivers the pleasure and the pain with neither apology nor excuse.
 
"...Vital, raunchy, beautiful taboo-shattering... THIS IS THE FUTURE OF ROCK N ROLL!!!!!"
-Tracy Snow, Gods of Music


November - Abby Travis
GlitterMouth  is Los Angeles singer-songwriter, bassist and underground fashion icon Abby Travis’s new release, an intoxicating amalgam of glam-rock, trip-hop, soul and cabaret.

Abby Travis has amassed quite a roster of musical friends since her heady late-’80s days as a teen bassist in the seminal L.A. band The Love Dolls, after which she became an in-demand player, backing up Elastica and Beck in back-to-back sets at Lollapalooza  and supporting acts as diverse as Exene Cervenka, Michael Penn, KMFDM, Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes, Vanessa Paradis and Spinal Tap.

“These people who can do so many things so very capably, with never a trace of mediocrity, and somehow come off very, very sexy doing ’em — well, there’s no term for types like that, because there aren’t enough such to bother coining one… Abby Travis does it all.”
-L.A. Weekly, JOHN PAYNE


December - Holly Conlan
 Growing up in Agoura Hills, CA, Holly Conlan began writing songs as a way to escape the boredom of her childhood.  Those early years spent tinkling the ivories of her family’s piano paid off when in 2004, she and her father received an award for “Best Song” for the end title track from the film Finding Home.  Holly has performed her “soulful and brave” brand of pop at LA clubs The Hotel Café, The Roxy, Key Club, Anastasia’s Asylum, Café Cordiale, and the Temple Bar.  Additionally, she has been employed as a singer on sessions for CBS, the WB, and Lifetime.


On the compilation - Sally Jaye

Amarillo is Sally Jaye’s first solo venture since parting ways with the band Paper Sun. The set up for the release has grown organically, with numerous local appearances at the Hotel Café and other venues, supporting Patty Griffin, and airplay and college radio flagship KCRW.

“No matter that much of Sally Jaye's debut album, "Amarillo," was composed in a Hollywood apartment on a thrift-store piano. You can hear a lot of the South running through it, along with the likes of songwriting heroes such as Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith and Patty Griffin. Oh, and emotion. You can hear that too. “
-Kevin Bronson, Listing Sally Jaye as an La Times Buzz band