ROB LAUFER
Set for Record Release Show for New Album
EXCRUCIATING BLISS
Tuesday, April 6 at Hotel Café
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Los Angeles-based Rob Laufer has confirmed his record release show for fourth disc Excruciating Bliss on Tuesday, April 6 at Hotel Café. The album features an expansive mix of stream-of-consciousness psychedelia, compulsive pop and intimate, melodic musings. It was written, sung, played, recorded and mixed by Rob and sees his expansive career meld together beautifully.
Hailed as the "great lost artist" of the Power Pop Era by MOJO magazine, Rob is a musician’s musician. He’s played with Pixies frontman Frank Black; performed guitar on Fiona Apple’s Grammy-winning single "Criminal”; Johnny Cash, Shawn Colvin and B.B. King recorded his songs for a series of ads in the late 90’s; he was asked by Sir George Martin to perform The Beatles’ "Day in the Life” with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; and he recently completed a two-week run singing The Beatles' “Within You Without You” and “Across the Universe” as part of Cheap Trick's "Sgt. Pepper Live" extravaganza.
Laufer is the son of the man who created Tiger Beat Magazine and spent his teen years in Tarzana, CA making music with his closest friends, Eric Drew Feldman and Moris Tepper, who both went on to join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. He went on to win the part of George Harrison in the original production of “Beatlemania” but tired of wigs and taped moustaches and left to front a series of bands on the LA club scene. A showcase at SXSW won him his first publishing deal.
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