Beach Day are a surf-rock duo from Hollywood Florida. Kimmy Drake and Skyler Black make up the band, who’s punk influenced sound frequently features electric rock instrumentation, extensive vamping, . Other artists that can be heard on their station include Alabama Shakes, Pixies and Seapony. They came by with musicians Caroline Sands and Daniel Zerbo and played “All My Friends Were Punks” off their album “Native Echoes” available on Kanine Records. Beach Day specializes in a garage-minded breed of girl-group pop. With lots of young acts are reviving it now, but this band’s interpretation is so natural and incandescent that they make it feel completely fresh again. They have all the romantic nostalgia that you want from this fare but with just enough garage grit to be au courant. But their universal virtue is their rare melodic gift. Most of their ilk simply don’t have the stunningly easygoing songwriting instinct that Beach Day does. And that’s the difference. It’s basic but it’s everything. It’s why all their songs sound like singles. Moreover, singer Kimmy Drake has the true voice of a girl-group leading lady, something like a young, white Ronnie Spector raised on punk.”
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BEACH DAY – ” All My Friends Were Punks ” Pandora Sessions
Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Florida, Kimmy Drake, Native Echoes, Surfy Punky Garage-y Gnarly
BEACH DAY – ” Don’t Call Me On The Phone “
Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Florida, Kanine Records, Native Echoes
Beach Day are a rock band based in Hollywood, Florida. The duo consists of Kimmy Drake (guitars/vocals) and Skyler Black (drums). The duo met at a local show and bonded over their love of 60’s girl groups and a common desire to be in a band that was purely about fun. Beach Day released their debut single, “Beach Day,” in summer of 2012 and sophomore single “Walking on the Streets” in the fall. Their debut album, Trip Trap Attack, was released June 2013 by Kanine Records. It was recorded in South Florida and mixed in Detroit by Jim Diamond. Beach Day covered “Up on the Roof” for a Lens Crafters television advertisement. They also did a cover of Screaming Lord Sutch’s “Dracula’s Daughter” in 2013. A new album is out now titles “Native Echoes”.
BEACH DAY – ” Walking On The Streets “
Posted: January 16, 2015 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Hollywood Florida, Lo-Fi, Surf Pop
Lo Fi Pop Band BEACH DAY from Florida, Hollywood, Florida is not your typical beach town. The buildings, diners, and of course the beach appear frozen in the 1950’s. Probably a result of the town’s population boom happening in that era, a current drive down the streets feels like your moving through an R. Crumb drawing. Things seem exaggerated and a bit odd. The now mature population seems a caricature of their former ..
BEACH DAY – ” I’m Just Messin Around “
Posted: January 16, 2015 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Florida, Kanine Records
There is no mistaking Hollywood-based, indie-rock duo Kimmy Drake and Skylar Black’s affection for sunny fun at the shore: Onstage they call themselves Beach Day. And while their second album, “Native Echoes,” due out on Kanine Records filled with trademark retro surf guitar, tumbling waves and plenty of esprit de bikini, it also seems to take a few steps inland, toward the city, where the music picks up chunks of garage-rock grit and Drake’s vocal becomes more soulful and self-assured. It is an evolution that makes the follow-up to last year’s critically lauded debut, “Trip Trap Attack,” such an exciting album. “Native Echoes” clearly benefits from having Detroit garage-rock pioneer Jim Diamond producing in his Ghetto Recorders studio, famous for vintage analog recording equipment that has helped crunch the sound of the White Stripes, the Dirtbombs and others.
BEACH DAY – ” BFF’s ” and ” All My Friends Were Punks “
Posted: January 16, 2015 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Florida, Kanine Records, Surf Pop Punk
It may have been dreary and pouring outside, but Beach Day brought some Florida sunshine to brighten the day.
The Hollywood, FL band treads some of the same ground as like-minded beach-named acts (that is surfy/garage-y rock) distinguished by the vocals of guitarist/vocalist Kimmy Drake, whose vocals are as sweet as any . The once two-piece of Drake and Skyler Black, the band’s drummer, expanded to four with a more robust sound. Their music is deliciously retro, with songwriting of the AM radio/earworm variety. I haven’t been able to get “I’m Just Messin’ Around” and the heavier “Pretty” for more than a week. Both songs can be found on the band’s latest Kanine Records release, Native Echoes,
BEACH DAY – ” BFFF’s “
Posted: August 3, 2014 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Florida, Hollywood, Native Echoes, Surf Pop
new single from the band BEACH DAY from Hollywood Florida, members Kimmie Drake and Styler Black had a love of 60’s girl groups this track is taken from the album “Native Echoes” the album is released on August 19th Beach Day are a Surf Beach Pop with a lo-fi feel perhaps in the Beach Coast style
BEACH DAY – ” Don’t Call me On the Phone “
Posted: July 7, 2014 in MUSICTags: Beach day, Indie-Pop, Kanine Records, Kimmy Drake
From the new album “NATIVE ECHOES” a heady dose of sun sand and beach partying and a fifties melancholy guitar sound of BEACH DAY lead vocalist Kimmie Drake the album due on Kanine Records in august
The Fat Angel Sings 