Video premiere: ZOOLUXX, ‘Finally Be’

Daiana Feuer on August 23rd, 2018

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Troy Vincent, Ned Casual, Princess Frank and Roberto Rodriguez held a residency at faux-retro-haunt Good Times At Davey Wayne’s for three years, honing their self-described “hoodoo boogaloo” music using the stage as whetstone. This band knows how to craft a funky jam that gets a crowd dancing like they’re spinning inside invisible, electrified hula-hoops. Despite playing every week in Hollywood, and appearances at festivals like Lightning In A Bottle and Desert Daze, these guys — formerly known as Solar Sons — have somehow never put out an actual release. Until now.

They’ve got a new name, ZOOLUXX, and their first 7-inch, “Finally Be” (b/w “Anything & Everything”), is coming in September, produced by legendary saxophonist Karl Denson (KD’s Tiny Universe, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, Slightly Stoopid). They’ve completed a full album with producer Denson, engineered by Jordan Andreen at the all-analogue studio, Audio Design Recording, in San Diego, which gives it that raw feel, and they plan to keep dropping little crumbs to follow up to the release of their LP by year’s end. Jammy to the max, “Finally Be” comes running and shaking out the gate, bolstered by a fired up rhythm section and guitar that’s already in the throes of some form of ecstatic intoxication, and its lyrical message suggests that rockin’, gettin’ twisted and gettin’ funky is the way to get where you need to go. The video directed by Miles & AJ captures a day in the life of these musical friends, strolling the streets looking sharp, getting beers, entering Davey Wayne’s refrigerator-door and doing what they love to do on stage.

||| Watch: “Finally Be”