Hailing from Germany, Roaring 420s play a wild mix of psychedelia and surf music, with nods to Krautrock, folk and oriental music. These ingredients can be found on their new album, recorded with the band’s original line-up. They are a well-known live band who have toured extensively in Europe, the United States and Israel, sharing the stage with the likes of Blank Tapes, Night Beats and White Fence.
Founded in 2010 by Florian Hohmann, Luisa Mühl and Martin Zerrenner, The Roaring 420s from Dresden, soon garnered an international following in the psychedelic scene. Their blend of various influences from the 60s is ranging from garage rock’n‘roll, bubble gum pop and surf to freakbeat and psychedelia, often topped off with a layer of vocal harmonies and sometimes a sitar. Far Out Magazine (UK) described it as “a wholesome and hedonistic twist merging the normally culturally constipated psych purists into fun loving party machines. »
Their debut LP « What is Psych?“ has been released on Stoned Karma Records in 2014 and has delighted critics and fans alike. The Roaring 420s went on to found their own label It’s a Gas! Records and released their second album « You Can’t Get Out Alive“ in 2015 which was produced by Jorge Muñoz-Cobo Gonzalez (Holly Golightly, Boogarins, Golden Animals etc.) Additionally, they have put out singles, split EPs and contributed to compilations on Levitation Records, Melotron Recordings and Celluloid Gurus (among others). Their music was also featured in commercial campaigns such as for GUCCI (feat. Lee Jung-jae), Specialized and New Yorker.
Le Pop Club is now joining forces with German label It’s a Gas Records to release this new album.
After working with a number of groups over the last twenty years, playing with a
variety of records, groups and concerts (The Rebels of Tijuana, Le Roi Angus, etc.),
KACIMI released his first solo album « Cookies & Motoriders » in 2015, followed by
« Gyrophare » in 2020, « Couronne d’Ephémères » in 2023 and « Panache » in 2024. Four critically acclaimed albums (Rock & Folk, Rolling Stone, Les Inrockuptibles, Shindig, RTS, FIP, France
Inter…). These albums are interspersed with various singles (« Décroche », « Il fait si
chaud ce soir », « Les Rois »…) and numerous collaborations since 2020 (Lionel Limiñana,
Nick Wheeldon, Alexis Fugain, Blot, L’Eclair, Joël Virgel, Audrey K….). KACIMI’s music
plunges us, in a contemporary and modern interpretation, into the heart of French
sixties pop, at once cinematic, yéyé, beat and poetic, where psychedelic rhythm n’blues
and garage rock n’roll mingle with love ballads suspended in time.
In recent years, KACIMI has written music for a number of series, adverts and events
(Emily in Paris, You’re The Worst, Orangina, Cannes Film Festival, etc.). He runs the
Le Pop Club Records label, with which he has released almost 80 titles (Le
Superhomard, Nick Wheeldon, Wendy Martinez, etc.) and in recent years has
specialised in French film music, with vinyl reissues of « Coup de Tête », « Les Tontons
Flingueurs », « Un Singe en Hiver » and « Le Magnifique ».