Black Lives at the Golden Coast
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| Studio album by The Icarus Line | ||||
| Released | May 14, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Punk metal | |||
| Length | 43:52 | |||
| Label | Dim Mak Records | |||
| Producer | Michael Musmanno | |||
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Black Lives at the Golden Coast is the third full-length release from Los Angeles noise rock band The Icarus Line. Black Lives was also the second for major label V2 Records.
Shortly after the long months of touring for Penance Soiree ended, the band returned to Los Angeles, penniless and completely frayed at the ends. All members went their separate ways except Joe Cardamone and Don Devore. Both recently lost their homes while being on the road and had returned to Los Angeles with no place to live. After a few weeks of crashing on couches, V2 decided it was best to put the singer-songwriter and bass player in a hotel where they could continue writing for a new record.
Around this same time when Cardamone and Devore were working on various musical projects at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Aaron North sent an email to The Icarus Line's management notifying that he would be leaving the group. At the time it wasn't a shock considering the amount of drugs everyone was on and the fact that there had been talk of moving Don Devore into the guitar position in favor of exploring new territory stylistically.
After a couple months, and countless 8 balls later, V2 decided that it was too costly to keep the two at such a fine establishment and decided to relocate the "Toxic Twins" to a Travelodge on Vine and Melrose. A good deal of the four-track cassette demos that would later become the blueprint for Black Lives were recorded at this motel. After five months of staying in hotels and motel in their hometown of Los Angeles they two finally secured a real place to live with help from friends Ronda Doyle and Alexis Haritakis. A three-bedroom house in Los Feliz became ground zero for both Souls She Said and The Icarus Line's upcoming records. In the house was a large dining room that was re-fashioned to become a music den. Instruments and musicians of all kinds passed through, recording and hanging around the California craftsman home. Cardamone and Don shared a bachelor pad of sorts toward the back of the large house that had a separate entrance and bathroom. The Kingswell house, as it came to be known, evolved in into a refuge for an eclectic cast of like-minded individuals including members of The Mars Volta, Need New Body, The Warlocks, G. Love, Maroon 5, Ariel Pink, Beachwood Sparks, Earl Greyhound and others.
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