WARPAINT
Hallowbaloo Kick-Off Concert:
Date: Friday, October 28th
Venue: The Waterfront at Aloha Tower Marketplace
Doors: 8:30pm
Warpaint Show: 10pm (full set)
Additional Artists on Bill:
Paper Diamond (12am - full set), Kalalea Fire (performing with Paper Diamond) and Clones of the Queen (9pm)
General Admission is All Ages. Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
VIP is 21 and older only and includes front row access & private bar.
WARPAINT - Artist Highlights:
Past Performances at: Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, Austin City Limits, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Primavera Sound, Reading, Laneway, etc.
Past Tours with: The xx, Band of Horses, Yeasayer
Date: Friday, October 28th
Venue: The Waterfront at Aloha Tower Marketplace
Doors: 8:30pm
Warpaint Show: 10pm (full set)
Additional Artists on Bill:
Paper Diamond (12am - full set), Kalalea Fire (performing with Paper Diamond) and Clones of the Queen (9pm)
General Admission is All Ages. Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
VIP is 21 and older only and includes front row access & private bar.
WARPAINT - Artist Highlights:
Past Performances at: Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, Austin City Limits, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Primavera Sound, Reading, Laneway, etc.
Past Tours with: The xx, Band of Horses, Yeasayer
Videos - Stand-Out Coachella Performance:
Reviews & Accolades
Selected as one of "MTV's 9 Artists to Watch in 2011" -MTV 01/31/2011
Named to the "BBC Sound of 2011 List: Fifteen of music's most exciting rising stars" -BBC 12/06/2011
“'The Fool' Album - 9 out of 10” -NME Album Review
" Warpaint are different though. The L.A. four piece's time is undoubtedly now, but unlike the aforementioned two acts [The xx and The Drums] there's no visible surprise or bewilderment at their sudden public arrival. Tonight at the Deaf Institute there's a startling confidence to them [Warpaint] that blows away the sold out crowd just as much as their drifting 80s 4AD-soundscapes...Warpaint seem unstoppable, and the nonchalance with which they accept that only stands to make them more irresistible." -The-Fly.CO.UK 10/24/2010
“With Mozgawa's piston-like drums and laidback charm Warpaint are…forging ahead with a live show that shakes the dreamy trance of their recorded music into a dance frenzy.” -MX, Australia 07/21/2011
"Primavera's Best Moments: Pulp, Warpaint & More!
[nearly 150,000 people attended this festival]
Even though their recent album The Fool hints at an expansive potential, it did not in any way adequately prepare Primavera-goers for the band's immersive, gorgeous-sounding appearance on Saturday evening. Stepping up and delivering in a huge way on the festival's largest stage, the all-girl quartet nailed every stretch of vocal harmonies, ultimately saving their best song, "Undertow," for next to last… damned if that wasn't Primavera's most common (and welcome) stuck-in-your-head-for-Sunday's-hangover jam of the year." -SPIN 05/31/2011
More Reviews & Accolades – Click here
Hallowbaloo Preview
This quartet of femmes fatales demonstrate the immense power of understated music. Such an approach is not one most would view as a ticket to stardom, yet it is the very strength that has catapulted Warpaint into the darling arms of critical acclaim and rapidly swelling international popularity. What started as underground buzz from celebrity fans such as Billy Zane and the late Heath Ledger has now grown into a worldwide fanbase propelled by performances at nearly every mega-festival in America and Europe (Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Glastonbury, etc., etc.).
Warpaint produce songs that quietly ease into your conscience before shaking you to the bone. The blissful state created by their ambient tones eventually giving way to racing adrenaline as intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals and driving post punk rhythms coalesce and transform songs into roaring anthems.
Don’t be surprised if you find their Hallowbaloo performance to be your favorite concert of the year. You won’t be the first music critic or fan to walk away with such an impression. Within 24 hours of the release of the first single off their 2010 album, The Fool, Warpaint were uplifted upon a wave of internet chatter making them the third most blogged about artist on aggregator Hype Machine. Several tours in support of the album soon followed to much fanfare, and as 2010 came to a close, throngs of industry juggernauts declared them destined for supreme-stardom. This year, Warpaint have been proving them right - dazzling giant crowds at one gargantuan festival after another. Case in point, this summer’s Primavera festival attended by nearly 150,000 concert-goers in Barcelona, Spain. Spin magazine hailed Warpaint’s set on the main stage as a stand-out moment of the entire festival. Whether in the tight confines of a recording studio or playing to tens of thousands, Warpaint create a sprawling sound with immediate appeal. Those of you who watched Kings of Leon’s rise will see many similarities here, and the next time Warpaint comes to Honolulu, you may find yourself fighting for a front row ticket to the Blaisdell Arena.
Background:
Looking back at the road Warpaint have taken to get to this point further validates the lofty predictions. Their ascension has come not via overnight success but rather from hitting the road as hard as anyone and deftly dancing around industry moguls on multiple occasions. Those experiences have left them fit as a fiddle in a musical sense with a finely-tuned live repertoire and industry awareness that will keep them firmly in control of future recordings.
Warpaint formed in L.A. seven years ago as a unison of two childhood friends and two sisters. Past members include actress Shannyn Sossamon (Wristcutters: A Love Story, One Missed Call) on drums and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. The band’s 2008 self-released EP Exquisite Corpse quickly rose to number one on the Los Angeles Amoeba Records local artist chart and got them signed to Rough Trade Records (home to bands such as Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Belle & Sebastian and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros).
However, it wasn’t until the fall of 2009 when Australian drummer/keyboardist Stella Mozgawa joined founding members, Emily Kokal (guitar/vocals), Theresa Wayman (guitar/vocals) and bassist/vocalist Jenny Lee Lindberg (Sossamon’s sister), that Warpaint found its identity, one so well-represented in their 2010 LP The Fool. British music magazine NME rated the album 9 out of 10. The BBC named Warpaint as one of the 15 most exciting rising stars of 2010, and MTV named the band one of nine artists to watch in 2011. The album track “Undertow” is a fan favorite, teasing listeners with an eerie mix of gentle delivery and ominous lyrics.
Mozgawa’s joining the band also brought beautiful results on stage. While you wouldn’t at first think the arresting, dreamlike sound of The Fool would translate to incendiary live performances, Warpaint quickly earned a reputation for delivering just that when they hit the road in support of the album’s release. Whether headlining their own shows or touring alongside bands such as The xx, Band of Horses and Yeasayer, they impressed at every stop. And each tour featured many stops allowing Warpaint to form a bond that is matched by few and cannot be missed when watching them perform.
When Warpaint take the stage at Hallowbaloo for their first ever Hawai‘i performance, attendees are in for a unique experience. The band members present a rare balance - offsetting confident hard rocking energy with an almost fairy-like femininity. The band’s seemingly impenetrable friendship adds to the effect allowing the four ladies to spin off in their own musical worlds yet somehow intertwine them into a cohesive, soul pounding force. Expect it to be the treat of all treats at Hallowbaloo 2011.
WARPAINT - Reviews & Accolades
"The LA band of four was nothing short of stunning. The set was gorgeously long, stacked with songs from their debut, The Fool [Rough Trade, 2010] and an exceptional jam-session during the encore. The guitars were intense, the drums fierce and the bass lines sanded rough edges with impressive force. Warpaint rocks hard and yet continually taunts with such an eerie, feminine mystique....I already totally loved the recorded version of Warpaint but their live performance upgraded my feelings to overflowing admiration for their mad skills, sex appeal and sweetness. No doubt this group is going to blow up and it's totally deserved." -SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN 03/18/2011
"Warpaint at the Kazimier - the perfect start to this year's Liverpool Music Week: Having already completed impressive support slots with the likes of The XX and Yeasayer, this gig proved beyond any doubt that Warpaint are a headlining act, and the perfect trailblazer for this year's Liverpool Music Week. We only hope what's to follow [at this year’s festival] can live up to the standard thrown down by the girls of Warpaint." -SEVEN STREETS 10/25/2010
"To say that Warpaint were on top of their game at La Zona Rosa Saturday night would be an understatement. The four women were sirens, as their hypnotic grooves and gorgeous guitar lines managed to seduce nearly everyone in attendance… The band demonstrated a kind of chemistry that not even an odd technical glitch midway through their set could break, and it made for an experience that further confirms their status as a live force." -AUSTINIST 04/11/2011
Reviews of Warpaint’s The Fool Album
"The Fool is a success no matter how you slice it, playing like a genre record for a genre that doesn't exist." -CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
"The album is damn stunning -- an incredibly well produced collection of drifty, arty, swoony, low end-loving psychedelic rock. But it's not stoner music. It's dark and pretty and kinda Goth and ... well, we could go on, or you could just listen to it."-LA WEEKLY BLOG
"While too many indie girl groups seem content to rebuild the Wall of Sound brick by brick, this Los Angeles quartet dedicate their hypnotic harmonies and guitars to a different cause: the House of Ian Curtis."- SPIN 8/10
"Warpaint put the riff-heavy desert rock of Queens of the Stone Age through a gauzy, female-frosted lens, ending up with something more mysterious." –PITCHFORK 7.2/10
“One of the year's most promising new acts, Warpaint construct mysterious songs that pair the rhythmic chug of Pylon with the otherworldly eeriness of Throwing Muses. Bass lines zigzag and drums kick off-kilter rhythms and Emily Kokal's soft, pleading vocals. Every song feels like an incantation: weirdo dance number "Beetle" finds Kokal belting out lyrics in jump-rope cadence between bouts of bent-wire guitar and eerie ripples of synth.”-ROLLING STONE
"Reverb and minor chords are beautiful things for Warpaint, a four-woman band from Los Angeles. The reverb makes the guitars weightless yet enveloping, and when the women use them for high, intertwining, arpeggiated lines, they hint at the gleam of Congolese pop. The minor keys keep the songs pensive and serious. And the songs unfold with architectural clarity, advancing from ethereal to earthy....First they hypnotize; then they get you dancing."
-NEW YORK TIMES
"Combining the dense, shadowy mood of some early Cure with the sonic drift of Mazzy Star and Cat Power's more hazy vocal work, Warpaint occupies a challenging space where the mood can vary from deep woods come-down to fierce primal ritual. It hits an especially sweet spot live, where the ladies sometimes swap instruments or hone in on those spine-tingling harmonies."
-LA TIMES
"Dreamy shoegaze melodies are paired with post-punk dissonance and fueled by the bandmates’ pure magnetism and instrumental chops." -PASTE
Reviews & Accolades
Selected as one of "MTV's 9 Artists to Watch in 2011" -MTV 01/31/2011
Named to the "BBC Sound of 2011 List: Fifteen of music's most exciting rising stars" -BBC 12/06/2011
“'The Fool' Album - 9 out of 10” -NME Album Review
" Warpaint are different though. The L.A. four piece's time is undoubtedly now, but unlike the aforementioned two acts [The xx and The Drums] there's no visible surprise or bewilderment at their sudden public arrival. Tonight at the Deaf Institute there's a startling confidence to them [Warpaint] that blows away the sold out crowd just as much as their drifting 80s 4AD-soundscapes...Warpaint seem unstoppable, and the nonchalance with which they accept that only stands to make them more irresistible." -The-Fly.CO.UK 10/24/2010
“With Mozgawa's piston-like drums and laidback charm Warpaint are…forging ahead with a live show that shakes the dreamy trance of their recorded music into a dance frenzy.” -MX, Australia 07/21/2011
"Primavera's Best Moments: Pulp, Warpaint & More!
[nearly 150,000 people attended this festival]
Even though their recent album The Fool hints at an expansive potential, it did not in any way adequately prepare Primavera-goers for the band's immersive, gorgeous-sounding appearance on Saturday evening. Stepping up and delivering in a huge way on the festival's largest stage, the all-girl quartet nailed every stretch of vocal harmonies, ultimately saving their best song, "Undertow," for next to last… damned if that wasn't Primavera's most common (and welcome) stuck-in-your-head-for-Sunday's-hangover jam of the year." -SPIN 05/31/2011
More Reviews & Accolades – Click here
Hallowbaloo Preview
This quartet of femmes fatales demonstrate the immense power of understated music. Such an approach is not one most would view as a ticket to stardom, yet it is the very strength that has catapulted Warpaint into the darling arms of critical acclaim and rapidly swelling international popularity. What started as underground buzz from celebrity fans such as Billy Zane and the late Heath Ledger has now grown into a worldwide fanbase propelled by performances at nearly every mega-festival in America and Europe (Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Glastonbury, etc., etc.).
Warpaint produce songs that quietly ease into your conscience before shaking you to the bone. The blissful state created by their ambient tones eventually giving way to racing adrenaline as intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals and driving post punk rhythms coalesce and transform songs into roaring anthems.
Don’t be surprised if you find their Hallowbaloo performance to be your favorite concert of the year. You won’t be the first music critic or fan to walk away with such an impression. Within 24 hours of the release of the first single off their 2010 album, The Fool, Warpaint were uplifted upon a wave of internet chatter making them the third most blogged about artist on aggregator Hype Machine. Several tours in support of the album soon followed to much fanfare, and as 2010 came to a close, throngs of industry juggernauts declared them destined for supreme-stardom. This year, Warpaint have been proving them right - dazzling giant crowds at one gargantuan festival after another. Case in point, this summer’s Primavera festival attended by nearly 150,000 concert-goers in Barcelona, Spain. Spin magazine hailed Warpaint’s set on the main stage as a stand-out moment of the entire festival. Whether in the tight confines of a recording studio or playing to tens of thousands, Warpaint create a sprawling sound with immediate appeal. Those of you who watched Kings of Leon’s rise will see many similarities here, and the next time Warpaint comes to Honolulu, you may find yourself fighting for a front row ticket to the Blaisdell Arena.
Background:
Looking back at the road Warpaint have taken to get to this point further validates the lofty predictions. Their ascension has come not via overnight success but rather from hitting the road as hard as anyone and deftly dancing around industry moguls on multiple occasions. Those experiences have left them fit as a fiddle in a musical sense with a finely-tuned live repertoire and industry awareness that will keep them firmly in control of future recordings.
Warpaint formed in L.A. seven years ago as a unison of two childhood friends and two sisters. Past members include actress Shannyn Sossamon (Wristcutters: A Love Story, One Missed Call) on drums and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. The band’s 2008 self-released EP Exquisite Corpse quickly rose to number one on the Los Angeles Amoeba Records local artist chart and got them signed to Rough Trade Records (home to bands such as Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Belle & Sebastian and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros).
However, it wasn’t until the fall of 2009 when Australian drummer/keyboardist Stella Mozgawa joined founding members, Emily Kokal (guitar/vocals), Theresa Wayman (guitar/vocals) and bassist/vocalist Jenny Lee Lindberg (Sossamon’s sister), that Warpaint found its identity, one so well-represented in their 2010 LP The Fool. British music magazine NME rated the album 9 out of 10. The BBC named Warpaint as one of the 15 most exciting rising stars of 2010, and MTV named the band one of nine artists to watch in 2011. The album track “Undertow” is a fan favorite, teasing listeners with an eerie mix of gentle delivery and ominous lyrics.
Mozgawa’s joining the band also brought beautiful results on stage. While you wouldn’t at first think the arresting, dreamlike sound of The Fool would translate to incendiary live performances, Warpaint quickly earned a reputation for delivering just that when they hit the road in support of the album’s release. Whether headlining their own shows or touring alongside bands such as The xx, Band of Horses and Yeasayer, they impressed at every stop. And each tour featured many stops allowing Warpaint to form a bond that is matched by few and cannot be missed when watching them perform.
When Warpaint take the stage at Hallowbaloo for their first ever Hawai‘i performance, attendees are in for a unique experience. The band members present a rare balance - offsetting confident hard rocking energy with an almost fairy-like femininity. The band’s seemingly impenetrable friendship adds to the effect allowing the four ladies to spin off in their own musical worlds yet somehow intertwine them into a cohesive, soul pounding force. Expect it to be the treat of all treats at Hallowbaloo 2011.
WARPAINT - Reviews & Accolades
"The LA band of four was nothing short of stunning. The set was gorgeously long, stacked with songs from their debut, The Fool [Rough Trade, 2010] and an exceptional jam-session during the encore. The guitars were intense, the drums fierce and the bass lines sanded rough edges with impressive force. Warpaint rocks hard and yet continually taunts with such an eerie, feminine mystique....I already totally loved the recorded version of Warpaint but their live performance upgraded my feelings to overflowing admiration for their mad skills, sex appeal and sweetness. No doubt this group is going to blow up and it's totally deserved." -SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN 03/18/2011
"Warpaint at the Kazimier - the perfect start to this year's Liverpool Music Week: Having already completed impressive support slots with the likes of The XX and Yeasayer, this gig proved beyond any doubt that Warpaint are a headlining act, and the perfect trailblazer for this year's Liverpool Music Week. We only hope what's to follow [at this year’s festival] can live up to the standard thrown down by the girls of Warpaint." -SEVEN STREETS 10/25/2010
"To say that Warpaint were on top of their game at La Zona Rosa Saturday night would be an understatement. The four women were sirens, as their hypnotic grooves and gorgeous guitar lines managed to seduce nearly everyone in attendance… The band demonstrated a kind of chemistry that not even an odd technical glitch midway through their set could break, and it made for an experience that further confirms their status as a live force." -AUSTINIST 04/11/2011
Reviews of Warpaint’s The Fool Album
"The Fool is a success no matter how you slice it, playing like a genre record for a genre that doesn't exist." -CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
"The album is damn stunning -- an incredibly well produced collection of drifty, arty, swoony, low end-loving psychedelic rock. But it's not stoner music. It's dark and pretty and kinda Goth and ... well, we could go on, or you could just listen to it."-LA WEEKLY BLOG
"While too many indie girl groups seem content to rebuild the Wall of Sound brick by brick, this Los Angeles quartet dedicate their hypnotic harmonies and guitars to a different cause: the House of Ian Curtis."- SPIN 8/10
"Warpaint put the riff-heavy desert rock of Queens of the Stone Age through a gauzy, female-frosted lens, ending up with something more mysterious." –PITCHFORK 7.2/10
“One of the year's most promising new acts, Warpaint construct mysterious songs that pair the rhythmic chug of Pylon with the otherworldly eeriness of Throwing Muses. Bass lines zigzag and drums kick off-kilter rhythms and Emily Kokal's soft, pleading vocals. Every song feels like an incantation: weirdo dance number "Beetle" finds Kokal belting out lyrics in jump-rope cadence between bouts of bent-wire guitar and eerie ripples of synth.”-ROLLING STONE
"Reverb and minor chords are beautiful things for Warpaint, a four-woman band from Los Angeles. The reverb makes the guitars weightless yet enveloping, and when the women use them for high, intertwining, arpeggiated lines, they hint at the gleam of Congolese pop. The minor keys keep the songs pensive and serious. And the songs unfold with architectural clarity, advancing from ethereal to earthy....First they hypnotize; then they get you dancing."
-NEW YORK TIMES
"Combining the dense, shadowy mood of some early Cure with the sonic drift of Mazzy Star and Cat Power's more hazy vocal work, Warpaint occupies a challenging space where the mood can vary from deep woods come-down to fierce primal ritual. It hits an especially sweet spot live, where the ladies sometimes swap instruments or hone in on those spine-tingling harmonies."
-LA TIMES
"Dreamy shoegaze melodies are paired with post-punk dissonance and fueled by the bandmates’ pure magnetism and instrumental chops." -PASTE
