Beginners | en

A garage rock band ("with dark electronic pop hooks") from Los Angeles, California, United States

The Californian band Beginners was born in L.A.’s Wiltern Theater, where after years apart, Samantha Barbera and Nick Ruth re-united to support their former drummer in Foster the People. It was that night that Barbera, songwriter and singer/bassist in hardcore punk band Holy Fever, and Ruth who had been producing artists, including Mikky Ekko and Active Child, became inspired to work together again.

Beginners delivers elements of garage rock with dark electronic pop hooks that fans of Santigold, Cults, Phantogram, Tegan and Sara, and Chromatics will appreciate. Barbera’s attitude-tinged vocals carry the intensity and passion of an artist like Karen O, while Ruth’s production captures a moody landscape fit for Depeche Mode’s “Violator”. On-stage she is backed by Holy Fever bandmate, Neeraj Kane and drummer, Jason Walker.
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