Shaky Knees Music Festival 2018: A Conversation With L.A. Witch
L.A. Witch performed on the first day of the 2018 Shaky Knees Music Festival.
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L.A. Witch is a garage rock trio from — you guessed it — Los Angeles, CA. The three California born-and-bred women play fuzzy, jaded rock’n’roll tunes that fill your speakers with reverb, jangling guitar, and lead singer Sade Sanchez’s seemingly indifferent crooning.
The band performed on the first day of the 2018 Shaky Knees Music Festival, and were thrilled to be in Atlanta.
“The southern hospitality is just wonderful; it’s so different from back home,” bassist Irita Pai said.
Their music, while not distinctly Californian, is certainly influenced by their hometown.
“I think that L.A. is just one of those places that carries so much energy and has so much rock ‘n’ roll history and so much, you know, Hollywood history,” Sanchez said. “I think that subconsciously you kind of pick up on a lot of those things, and that comes out in what you write.”
And given that Atlanta is fast becoming a kind of second Hollywood, the members of L.A. Witch feel that this will bring a lot of possibility for artists in Georgia and expand on the existing musical roots of the South.
“It seems like there’s a lot of opportunity here, and when there’s opportunities, there’s a lot of artists that come in. They move in, and they build a community,” Pai said. “I mean, that’s how, I feel like, a lot of great music and scenes start. So I think that’s really exciting for Atlanta right now. Kind of almost wish we moved down here, maybe.”
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