Stream: Fakers, ‘Gold Room’
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“Who knows, we just might do the residency and then break up,” a member of Fakers told me after a June show. Whether he was joking is anyone’s guess. Certainly nobody would blame the L.A. quintet for a healthy dose of insouciance — they’ve been through the wars. To review, Fakers are Joey and Andy Siara from the Henry Clay People, Travis Shettel from Piebald, Cameron Dmytryk from Sun Drug/Vanaprasta and Benjamin Heywood from Summer Darling. They shout more than they sing (hence the title of their forthcoming release “Personality Voices”); they shred like they can’t wait to get to their next tallboy; and they are every bit as ferocious as your favorite darling punk cherubs, only smarter. To a 19-year-old, they might look like No Parents’ parents, but they share a lot of musical DNA. Fakers’ new song is “Gold Room,” a paean to the Echo Park saloon where “nobody is special” and “tequila is cheaper than water,” and it will be out on a 7-inch next month. Life is short, drink up.
||| Stream: “Gold Room”
||| Live: Fakers do the Monday night residency in August at the Echo, and they’ll be playing Echo Park Rising as well.
||| Previously: “$600”
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