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Stereotrain Rehearsal and Recording Studios provide the most affordable high quality rehearsal studios and production services in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Located in Burbank, California, Stereotrain is the number one choice for musicians from Burbank, Glendale, Eagle Rock, Pasadena, North Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.

The studios are available fully backlined with the best names in gear: Marshall, Fender, Music Man, Ampeg, Gallien Krueger, Ludwig, JBL, Roland, Mackie, Sennheiser and more.

stereotrain.com

Chrisse Hynde of The Pretenders has a new band: JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys; some great new tracks are hitting the airwaves now!

The Codega Group designed their identity and website from scratch. The development team is busy getting everything ready to launch within the next week — stay tuned!

Andy Frasco is a 22-year-old independent artist from suburban LA who’s traveling to inspire others to follow their love of music and take charge of their career.

The Codega Group is proud to have Andy in our performer roster. See the full band in action at The Mint below, and make sure to catch a live show once they’re back from touring!

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EDIT: Andy is back in LA and will be performing at the AC Supper Club in Venice, CA Friday June 4th along with Connie Lim, Red Circle Underground and more!

Los Einstein is an eclectic group of musicians that formed in the waning months in 2009.

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It all started with the musical vision by gruff & soulful singer Matt Einstein and composition master guitar player Chris Vazquez. After the two met, they immdediately began writing tunes with vibin’ Latin and Rock n Roll riffs. With the addition of Enrique, Aideen and Toby, Los Einstein has become an overnight sensation in Los Angeles.

This Saturday at The Stronghold in Venice, CA. See jillianspeer.com for more info.

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Nektare’s music is a unique style of rock with a juicy undercurrent of blues, funk, soul and psychedelia.

Influenced by the music 60’s and 70’s, their music has retro vibe, with a fresh appeal. Their strongest influences are the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix and Zeppelin. Outrageous and mesmerizing in concert , their live shows captivate every audience and whip the crowd into a frenzy, they have incredible synergy as band and charisma that is undeniable.

Naomi Nektare’s vocal capabilities are incredible; this petite beauty belts out a deep soul that rocks you to the core, likened to Janis Joplin, Joan Osborne and Grace Slick. Naomi sees her self as the shaman, her band as the sweet soul medicine and the audience as the tribe , uniting together to rise to higher consciousness through music.

Nektare, has received awards for Best New Artist, Best Live Show, Best Song-writing, Best Solo Artist, and Outstanding Psychedelic Band from Rock City News & the L.A. Music Awards. Nektare also won “Best Live Stage Show”, from the prestigious Hollywood Fame Awards and first-place in the “Battle of the Bands,” from R.K.O. Records, showcasing the best bands from the O.C. and L.A. area. Two Songs from their last EP have been placed in feature films-”I Want U 2 Luv Me” is the opening song for an upcoming HBO movie and “New Day” is the title song for an independent film playing in festivals world wide.
This year Naomi is nominated for “Best Female Vocals,” and “Best Female Front Woman”-you can catch her performing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in their hit video, “Tell Me Baby.” Nektare is currently recording their first full-length album.

Naomi Nektare – VOCALS, SONG WRITING AND PERCUSSION
Richie Vaccaro – GUITAR
Brandon Criswell – BASS
Todd Nosek – DRUMS

NEKTARE.COM
youtube.com/nektare

The Codega proudly presents Roots Revival at the AC Supper Club in Venice, CA.

Come on out for our first RR show on April 11! Flyer by chris@thecodega.com

Come join us at the House of Blues Sunset Strip on Saturday March 20th for an unforgettable evening of live music.

We’ll be celebrating Elizabeth Upton’s 28th birthday with Connie Lim, Andy Frasco and The Dirty Diamond. $10 w/ flyer. 21+. Dress to impress.

Poster design by chris@thecodega.com

Come join us at the House of Blues Sunset Strip on Saturday March 27th for an unforgettable evening of live music.

We’ll be rockin out with DJ Bliss Beats alongside Danielle Stori, James Kenney, Ryan Sallis and Brittney Bouchard. $10 w/ flyer. 21+. Dress to impress.

Poster design by chris@thecodega.com

“Adam is West Indian Girl’s number one soundman. He’s got great ears and perfect pitch.”

Whether mixing eclectic artists in the heart of Hollywood at the Hotel Cafe and Nico Vega at the LA Detour Fest or tour managing/ F.O.H. for Crash Kings, Adam Labov is not your typical sound engineer. He’s not one to “set it and forget it”. Adam’s approach to live sound begins with the understanding that the mixing console is his instrument, and his way of contributing to a performance. His priority is properly interpreting the musicians’ sound, and relaying that message to the audience. This requires feeling the music and making adjustments as necessary, focusing on getting great tone & balance and adding tasteful effects.

You can find Adam not only mixing, but booking some of his favorite bands here in Los Angeles, including West Indian Girl, Travis Warren with Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens of Blind Melon, Trevor Hall, Until June and Chris Shinn of Unified Theory.

Adam is currently a live sound engineer and consultant for the Stronghold in Venice… where he has the pleasure of mixing monthly residencies of Tom Freund and Keaton Simons, as well as Jackson Browne, Willy Chambers and countless others. This month he launches two exclusive nights of his own @ The Stronghold:

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
@ The Stronghold in Venice
{$10 cover; Cash “donation” bar}

8:30pm John Bardy            www.myspace.com/jbardy
9:30pm The Idyllists        www.myspace.com/idyllists
10:30pm Travis Warren   www.myspace.com/starvingtravis
11:45pm Armada             www.myspace.com/armadaforpresident
12:45am Lantz Lazwell  www.myspace.com/lantzlazwell

Thursday, March 18th, 2010
@ The Stronghold in Venice
{$10 cover; Cash “donation” bar}

8:30pm Clare Means      www.myspace.com/claremeans
9:30pm Chantelle barry  www.myspace.com/chantellebarry
10:30pm Travis Warren   www.myspace.com/starvingtravis
11:30pm West Indian Girl www.myspace.com/westindiangirl

Artist quotes:

“Adam is West Indian Girl’s number one soundman. He’s got great ears and perfect pitch… which comes in handy for weeding out “out of tune” vocal performances. He’s always highly focused and professional. Truly a great person to have on your team.”
Robert James- West Indian Girl 
www.westindiangirl.com

“Adam is great! An excellent engineer with a superb ear for mixing. He stays calm under fire, managing to make everything he does look easy. 
And he’s a swell guy to boot!”
Alex church- Sea Wolf 
www.seawolfmusic.com

Notable artists Adam has worked with:

Dickie Betts (Allman Bros.), Blind Melon, Sea Wolf, Bob Mould, Ben Harper, Tom Morello, Nico Vega, The Black Crowes, Katy Perry, Imogen Heap, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackson Browne, Steel Pulse, Leon Russell, Joshua Radin, Brett Dennen, Vanessa Carlton, William Fitzsimmons, Arrested Development, Priscilla Ahn, Marie’ Digby, Asa, Under the Influence of Giants, Lily Hayden, Meiko, Courtney Love, The Samples, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, Rooney, Emily Wells, Andy Clockwise, Angel Taylor, Buckcherry, Gilbey Clarke (Guns n’ Roses) Fishbone, Eddie Kowalcyzk (Live), and Delta Nove.

Notable venues Adam has mixed:

Los Angeles: The Henry Fonda Theater, The El Rey Theater, The House of Blues, Avalon, The Malibu Inn, The Viper Room. The Troubadour, The Knitting Factory, The Whiskey, The Roxy, Spaceland, The Echo, The Echoplex, The Key Club, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Contact:

(703) 403-4084

adamlabov@hotmail.com

Jeanine Strong, aka JiJi, is an unsigned singer/songwriter seeking label distribution and representation. Her music fits several genres and is ideal for TV/Film/Radio placement.

Jeanine’s first and only piano teacher put it best when she said: “My other students will always be good, but Jeanine~ she has the music in her!” Jeanine could not avoid the music; it followed her wherever she went. She formed her first all-girl band CLOVER at the age of 19, which consisted of five girls who harmonized over two acoustic guitars. The experience only added to Jeanine’s ambition to tour the world as a famous singer. During college, Jeanine was fortunate to meet her producer & partner Mike Corvington (aka DJ Leviathan). Together they make a powerful team with Mike writing and producing all of the music and Jeanine writing all the lyrics and melodies. The duo create the unique sound that is Jeanine Strong’s signature style: Urban Melodic Soul.

myspace.com/jeaninestrongmusic
songplacements.com/jeaninestrong

The latest album, entitled Closure, weaves the listener through the nuances of a relationship gone awry. That being said, it’s not your typical sappy break up record. For the most part, the tone and tempo of the songs gleam with hope and the projection of moving forward. Anduze’s sultry voice resonates with a sympathetic confidence that leaves a unique impression. Using beautifully crafted lyrics, each song tells a story that reels us in for an up close and personal look at the artist…and at times ourselves. The subject matter is relatable, like a conversation with someone where you find yourself not speaking because you agree with every word.

Finding “closure” is not easy, we all know that. But as he searches for his, Anduze also manages to inspire us to look for ours in whatever capacity we may need it…proof that music truly can be life changing when it comes from the soul.

http://anduzemusic.com/

The VertiGirls were founded by Emilee Wilson in 2009. She hand picked each performer after witnessing the amazing amount of strength and grace they exuded during pole performances. The VertiGirls have been featured in Pole2Pole Magazine, and they’ve played at such legendary venues as the Hollywood House of Blues (the first time in that venue’s history that pole performers headlined on the main stage), the Key Club, the Aqua Lounge in Beverly Hills, Gallery 1018, the Upper Manhattan Lounge, and in January 2010 they’ll be starting a residency at King King on Hollywood Blvd. every third Thursday of the month. The VertiGirls are proudly endorsed by Bad Kitty, Xpole, and Mighty Grip. They wear signature feather masks which add mystery and magic to each show and they provide jaw-dropping entertainment with synchronized pole tricks, duet dances, and choreographed routines (including hoop, trapeze, and fire dancing). Several of the VertiGirls are title-holders in professional U.S. and California pole competitions.

In 1963, renowned chemists Bear Owsley and Nick Sands developed a strain of designer LSD which had a reputation for inducing tribal hallucinations. This strain of acid was called “west indian girl.” Flash forward forty-some years and however many psychedelic revolutions later to find the Los Angeles duo of Robert James and Francis Ten deciding to call their musical collaboration “West Indian Girl.”

Close your eyes, put on West Indian Girl’s self-titled 2004 Astralwerks debut, and feel how apt James’ and Ten’s choice of moniker is: the ensuing auditory hallucination will bring you back indeed, back to a time when Blur were considered shoegazers, when My Bloody Valentine wrote anthems posing as crystalline soundscapes, when U2 was more concerned about the great beyond than politics and Stone Roses vied with Primal Scream as the sexiest, spaciest, stonededest band around.

It’s not that West Indian Girl is derivative of those bands, or even sounds like them per se, as much as it is born out of a similar ethos. Like those bands, all deeply transformed by England’s post-Acid House movement, West Indian Girl is born out of a similar ethos: a devotion to the expansion of all things mental, musical and mood elevating, a desire to find that transcendent missing link between rock’s human pulse and electronica’s man-machine meltdown. At the same time, West Indian Girl are no mere Anglophile nostalgists but true products of their time and environment. West Indian Girl remain next-level, next-generation journey-to-the-center-of-your-mind rock, the v.2.0 version: songs like “Northern Sky” and the first single “Hollywood” suggest the abandon of a dreamy, slightly unreal Southern California landscape just as “Madchester” dance-rock evoked vagabond “free parties” in the middle of some remote pastoral field.

Indeed, West Indian Girl’s swirling, empyreal big-canvas sound draws from an evolution out of America’s own version of the Acid House “Summer of Love.” Growing up, Ten moved continuously from the East Coast through the Midwest (“My dad is Sicilian—he owned various… businesses, and there are Sicilians everywhere” is all Ten will say by explanation). James led a similarly nomadic upbringing, bouncing from Australia to Tucson, Arizona and then, when his mom passed away, headed to the Detroit area. After graduating high school, James sidestepped college in lieu of an extended road trip that landed him in Dallas, Texas circa the early ‘90s; by coincidence, Ten had landed there himself. Both found themselves living out a key chapter in American rave culture. Ecstasy just became illegal and still readily available in Texas back in those days, and Dallas soon became the epicenter for U.S. MDMA culture; there, these two like minds quickly found each other. “When Rob and I met, we combined resources and started throwing parties ‘the pioneer ranch raves’ we called them,” Ten explains.

As that phase of Stateside rave culture died down in the mid-‘90s, both pursued different musical trajectories. Ten gravitated to Los Angeles, where he tried to keep the “peace, love, unity, respect” vibe alive by throwing self-styled raves, only to find himself quickly in handcuffs. “We set up a bar in North Hollywood warehouse, and the authorities thought we were running a meth lab,” Ten groans. James, meanwhile, had shacked up in the Catskills “with a band that was more of an idea than a band. We spent most of our time stoned and never doing anything.”

By 2002, however, James had eventually joined Ten in Los Angeles, and West Indian Girl was born. Instead of playing live to audiences who didn’t know who they were (or care), James and Ten decided to build a home studio in an idyllic environment: placed high in the Hollywood Hills, its windows’ overlook deep into a lush canyon. The studio became “like Frankenstein with computers”—in other words, the ideal crucible to forge a unique sound out of disparate yet complementary influences. Initially, the two members of West Indian Girl make an unlikely pair, Ten with intense eyes and multiple tattoos, contrasted with James’ pensive, shaggy mystic quality; accordingly, James’ tastes from folk-rock to Underworld, Can and Kraftwerk, and the modal drone of Indian and African music, while Ten finds inspiration in everything from early Killing Joke and Japan to Jane’s Addiction and My Bloody Valentine. After a number of vocalist false starts, James took over vocals, with both collaborating the music; soon a raw, straight-from-the-hard-drive demo of “Dream”—an alluring Pink Floyd-circa-Syd Barrett-esque ballad rewired with hypnotic electronica—started circulating. “Dream” quickly found play on L.A. DJ Nic Harcourt’s radio show “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” a buzz-creating haven for new music on influential local station KCRW.

For their full-length, West Indian Girl strove to capture the lysergic immediacy of the “Dream” demo, so they set about producing their debut full-length in their bucolic home-studio getaway. In the tradition of classic debauched albums from the likes of Happy Mondays and the Rolling Stones through New Order and Primal Scream, West Indian Girl evolved out of some truly altered states, and gorgeously sounds it. “I’m not a big pot smoker, but Rob gave me a pipe as a present to start the record, and it benefited me,” Ten says. “The songs opened up—that’s how the album was realized.” “Drugs have their place,” James adds. “And I wouldn’t say this album was done under just the influence of pot, either. I see the benefits of every drug: use your imagination.”

Ten notes that West Indian Girl’s debut intentionally reverberates with “a positive feel that almost sticks out these days.” It’s the human quality to the album that proves most seductive, from the washes of analog Moog keyboards to the spooky harmonies alchemizing “Leave Tonight.” “In an age where so much is programmed, everything on this record is actually played, which gives it that warm feel,” Ten says. “People crave that realness.” “The music West Indian Girl makes is very touchy-feely,” James concludes. “If it feels right, it’s right.”

myspace.com/westindiangirl

On the stage and in the studio, Yonatan has become a permanent fixture in the Los Angeles music scene.

As a musician, producer, and composer, he is constantly creating on all ends of the spectrum. Focused on expanding his ever-growing portfolio as a producer & engineer, he is looking for his next project. From a single track to a full length album, Yonatan is equipped with vision, skills, gear, and a vast network of musicians to take your music to the next level.

Here are some tracks that really display Yonatan’s ability and diversity.

And the following are some notable highlights of his career so far :

❂ USC graduate; Degree in Comprehensive Sound Arts from Ex’pression Center for New Media.

❂ Studio work with George Clinton and Merl Saunders, as well as on stage with the Black Eyed Peas and the Crown City Rockers.

❂ Radio Recorders in Hollywood; Produced and engineered full time; worked with the legendary John Cale of the Velvet Underground and Lonnie Jordan of War.

❂ Collaborated with Money Mark of the Beastie Boys, and mixed a complete album released in Japan.

❂ Member of the band million/billion; toured the country (shared stages with Ray LaMontagne, Gomez, and Beck) and released their first full length album, Ready. Fire. Aim., through Universal in 2007.

❂ Recorded and toured with singer/songwriter Andrew Paul Woodworth.

❂ Accomplished composer; featured on TV shows such as King of Queens, Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray, and America’s Best Dance Crew.

Feel free to inquire about his availability and rates with me: Jaclyn Strong (323) 804-7558 or jaclyn@thecodega.com

Cityzen started with songwriting partners Tobias Forrest and Jeff Line who used mind control to persuade four younger more talented musicians to enter a cacophony of noise. Nick Woods (drums), Chris Woods (keys) and Nick Lopez (bass) are unique players with mutant like musical abilities. In the eye of an electrical, instrumental storm the music dissolved into a blend of original “Roots” Rock sounds fused with Funk, Jazz, Reggae & Hip Hop influences. Although Cityzen is a fairly new band, it is consistently developing in many ways and looks to offer a variety of unique songs and styles. Our original project, “Invisible Mental Tenticles” is a compilation of raw and original “Living Room Sessions” that has evolved into the current full band set. Future live performances and studio recordings will shape an even more original and eclectic sound that provides listening pleasure and induces our audience with the impulse to dance. Whether we are at an intimate private setting or a full band venue, Cityzen simply wants to share the gift of entertainment. Thank you for any support or helpful feedback and we hope you enjoy our music.