Simon Dawes

Newly scrubbed alternative rockers from your upper-class LA beach suburb of Malibu, Simon Dawes can be an inoffensive mixture of the Shins’ quirky, ’60s-inspired melodicism as well as the radio-ready commercial sheen from the Killers or Maroon 5. Fronted by senior high school close friends Taylor Goldsmith (business lead vocalist) and Blake Mills (acoustic guitar), the lineup is usually curved out by bassist Wylie Slam and drummer Stuart Johnson, a program musician who’s used Matthew Nice and SOMEONE IN PARTICULAR, amongst others. (A June 2006 cover tale in an area Malibu glossy statements both that this odd music group name originates from Goldsmith’s and Mills’ middle brands, and, relatively improbably, that Goldsmith may be the boy of veteran R&B vocalist Lenny Goldsmith, most widely known for his ’70s stint with Tower of Power.) Uncovered by veteran manufacturer and A&R guy Tony Berg (Michael Penn, X), Simon Dawes agreed upon to The Record Collection, a pseudo-indie financed by Warner Brothers, in 2005 and released their debut EP, What NO-ONE Hears, in Oct of that season. Carnivore, Simon Dawes’ initial full-length album, implemented in Sept 2006. UNITED STATES shows with Music group of Horses also coincided its discharge that fall.