ADIOS 2014!

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AND WE'RE JUMPING ON BOARD THE "BEST OF'S" BANDWAGON. HERE ARE SOME OF THE FACES BEHIND COSMICA AND - IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER - A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT KEPT US GOING IN 2014 ...BESIDES THE COSMICA ARTISTS YOU ALREADY KNOW AND LOVE

#youarewhatyoulistento

Founder & CEO

Tucson, Arizona

#Libra

• Royal Blood | Royal Blood

• Nancy Sanchez | Ruby In L.A.

• Beck | Morning Phase

• John Garcia | John Garcia 

• FKA Twigs | LP1 

• Flaco Jimenez & Max Baca | Legends & Legacies

• MTV Unplugged | Kinky | Pepe Aguilar

• Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways

• U2 | Songs of Innocence (Deluxe) 

• Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas | Secret Evil 

Gil Gastelum

Watch.

Say what you will about Foo Fighter's Sonic Highways but the band IMHO gets better with each album. Their HBO special is a good primer for each city profiled- by no means is it a complete picture- but it's a nice starter for a world that is growing increasingly away from it's musical roots. In terms of musical roots, cities like Detroit are yielding gems such as Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas and Orange County's jazzy singer Nancy Sanchez. Aside from emerging artists, there are legends and legacies like Flaco Jimenez & Max Baca (who should've been nominated for a Grammy), John Garcia (Kyuss and Unida) one of my all-time fav vocalists with his best riffs since Kyuss, and the blazing rock duo that is Royal Blood wth their electric guitar like sounding bass. 

Tour Manager & Tech Support

Los Angeles, CA

#Taurus

José Galván

• Alt-J | This is All Yours

• Chet Faker | Built on Glass 

• Odezsa | In Return

• Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels 2

• Future Islands | Singles

• Temples | Sun Structures

• Phantogram | Voices 

• Mexican Dubwiser | Electric City

• Todd Terje | It's Album Time 

Badass.

Jessica Ramirez

• Spoon | They Want My Soul

• Sia | 1000 Forms of Fear

• Gaby Moreno | Posada 

• Porter Robinson | Worlds

• Phantogram | Voices

• Foo Fighters |  Sonic Highways

• Sam Smith | In The Lonely Hour

• Echosmith | Talking Dreams

• Taylor Swift | 1989

• Kenny Chesney | The Big Revival

Media Relations / Exec. Assistant

San Antonio, TX

#Virgo

Coolness.

Ariana Rendon

Social Media / Merch Store / Webmaster

Los Angeles, CA

#Virgo

• Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas | Secret Evil

• Thee Commons | Rock is Dead: Long Live Paper & Scissors Vol. I-VIII

• Ceci Bastida | La Edad de la Violencia

• Javiera Mena | Otra Era

• Cutty Flam | Robot Heart (cassette release) 

• Mac DeMarco | Salad Days 

• Chicano Batman | Cycles of Existential Rhyme 

• Ximena Sariñana | No Todo Lo Puedes Dar 

• Lykke Li | I Never Learn 

• (Tie): The Bloodhounds: Let Loose! | The Delirians: Get up!

Laaavvv It.

The cuties of Cutty Flam (San Fernando Valley) kept my robot heart beating this year with their quirky videos on Youtube, Ritchie Valens goes prom-punk gigs and of course their Robot Heart cassette release on Burger Records! And speaking of hearts of steel, the soundtrack to my millenial quarter life crisis is Lykke Li's I Never Learn. Then there's The Bloodhounds, East L.A.'s answer to the Yardbirds. They originally won me over with a Thee Midniters cover set and they've done it again, this time, with their own album Let Loose! on Alive Natural Sound. And in a genre all their own are Thee Commons, whose perfect blend of psychedelic cumbia punk can be heard throughout East Los and beyond... 

Social Media

Los Angeles, CA

#Cancer

Raúl Delgado Jr. 

• Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence 

• St. Vincent | St. Vincent

• Iggy Azalea | The New Classic

• Sam Smith | In The Lonely Hour

• First Aid Kit | Stay Gold

• Ceci Bastida | La Edad De La Violencia

• Lily Allen | Sheezus 

• Sia | 1000 Forms Of Fear

• Banks | Goddess 

• Lykke Li | I Never Learn

Ermahgerd.

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