Moving on, Brent Rademaker’s diligent preservation of a certain LA country-rock sound has seen him pilot some handy groups, notably The Beachwood Sparks. The typographically awkward GospelbeacH is Rademaker’s latest band, and one which stays true to the aesthetic that’s sustained him for around two decades. Gram love proliferates, then, along with a hint of […]
Brent Rademaker from Beachwood Sparks is back with new music! The name of the band is GospelbeacH and they consist of Brent, Tom Sanford, Jason Soda, Neal Casal and Kip Boardman. In celebration of this wonderfully sunny and upbeat country rock we did a short interview with Brent talking about the new album and other […]
The group’s debut album Pacific Surf Line builds on the California folk-rock tradition, with a side of blues and some seasons of psychedelia. MORE ON THE RELIX SITE HERE
Pacific Surf Line is a sunny, breezy debut from the group GospelbeacH. The band’s members have been part of Beachwood Sparks, Further, The Tyde, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals and Everest, among others. With the buoyant, country-influenced sound of Beachwood Sparks in mind, these musicians clearly clicked in the studio, as […]
GospelbeacH Return to the Shore for ‘Mick Jones’ Single http://t.co/d9YiMT2VPV pic.twitter.com/khdQxGRRiL — SPIN (@SPINmagazine) August 12, 2015 GospelbeacH Return to the Shore for ‘Mick Jones’ Single As a founding member of Beachwood Sparks, Brent Rademaker built a castle of sand out of gently twanging guitar lines and jaunty basswork and from the looks of things […]
UNCUT : 18 key records played in the Uncut office this past week… One of the several hundred things I didn’t manage to mention in my Grateful Dead feature this week was the role played by Neal Casal in Fare Thee Well, as composer of interval music which felt beamed in from the middle of […]
As El Nino rolled into Southern California in the summer of 1997 it pushed two friends, Brent Rademaker and Chris Gunst, to escape Los Angeles. Frequent trips to Joshua Tree were coupled with crashes at Gunst’s parents home to float in their pool and stare at the desert’s night skies. In the midst of this […]