Jonathan Bates’ solo project Big Black Delta was born from a several year hiatus from the music industry. After creating several EP’s and one LP with the Los Angeles based rock band Mellowdrone, Bates decided to leave the band in order to develop his conscious and create a different style of music. He bought a laptop from friend Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails, Sonoio) and from there started creating a minimal, innovative sound that would transform into Big Black Delta. With the help of female drum duo Mahsa Zargaran and Amy Wood, Jonathan Bates takes you on a journey through space with a heavy snare and electronica sound.

They will be playing at The Satellite in Los Angeles on May 27th so do not miss out on the opportunity to travel to the cosmos with Big Black Delta.

Lauren White came of age in the northern countryside of Jutland in Denmark, but her ears and eyes tuned to America, the result of having an American father and a Danish mother. Isolated in childhood, her best friends were the records her parents had collected and the music that influenced their generation, T. Rex, Bowie, and Dylan. Their bookshelves became her best friends, everything from Shakespeare to Faulkner. The piano called her from the corner of their cozy living room and by age nine Lauren was composing her own songs, singing them softly to herself, and dreaming of a world bigger than she could imagine.
She found a passion for composing first in classical music until the age of thirteen, when she started her first band and fell in love with writing rock and roll songs. By the time she was grown and left Denmark behind, she knew her destiny would lead her on a musical journey worldwide and back to the states. Finally, after a dark and dreary winter in sunny California, homesick and broken hearted, Lauren found her light and salvation in Lavinia Slaughter.
The love child of Lauren White and producer, Norm Block, this past year has been spent developing what is now their passion, and the first EP was finished in summer, 2012. Auditioning members and finding their band of brilliant misfits, they began writing and recording day and night. After taking a two month break to rehearse and write, Lavinia Slaughter are already back in the studio recording their second EP due out this Winter.

Los Angeles band, Dekades brings a powerful combination of fuzzed out guitars and distorted synths with haunting, angelic vocals courtesy of front woman, Arden Fisher. Dekades creates a sense of uneasy serenity amongst a chaotic wall of sound. Arden has lent her musical darkness through out the years, currently playing guitar with the enchanting Omniflux.

Dekades new single, "Dark Horse", is beaten up with heavy guitar and bass that sinks in to your chest, for which they have created three creepy, maddening teaser videos that leave you wanting more... Dekades is here.