Kevin Bronson on April 29th, 2013

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Rainbow Jackson’s “Rippin’ Off the Rails” EP, released last year, announced the L.A. quartet as happy, hair-flyin’ purveyors of hooks – not quite consciously messy enough for the local surf-garage-punk scene but too scuzzy to fit in with L.A.’s next-wave hard rockers. Named in homage to Bo Jackson (“the greatest American athlete to ever play two sports” is the band’s hardly arguable claim), Rainbow Jackson makes pock-marked guitar rock that seems equal parts T. Rex, Primal Scream and the Stooges, and the foursome – Sam Dagger, Chad Carlisle, Laith Khalaf and Andy Ford – have more on the way. “Flamingo Starr” (they like punny titles too) is 2 minutes of Dagger’s fireworks … “like a supernova,” as the chorus says, exploding and then fading away before it wears out its welcome.

||| Stream: “Flamingo Starr”

||| Live: Rainbow Jackson plays every Tuesday night in May at the Central SAPC.

||| Previously: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Rings” ”“ video

Photo by Ariana Masters