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Confetti - Wet & Reckless
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Machinery - Wet & Recklesss
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Suicide Mission - Wet & Reckless
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Cemetery - Wet & Reckless
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Best Night - Wet & Reckless
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Rope Me In - Wet & Reckless
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Walk Me Home - Wet & Reckless
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Bad Blood - Wet & Reckless
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Wet & Reckless’ self-titled 2015 album was one of the better, albeit underrated, releases by a local band in the past few years. Singer-guitarist Emily Wilder’s insightful exhortations sometimes evoke the blend of winsomely poetic lyrics and hard-rock power of Erika Wennerstrom’s Heartless Bastards. “So break down your chest levee/Let the sea be where the sea be/Lose the difference between you and me,” Wilder urges stirringly on “Machinery.” Bassist Jessica Gelt and drummer Jalise Woodward kick up a rollicking roots-rock groove underneath the whirlwind of passion that ensnares Wilder in “Confetti” (“There are traces of broken hearts like old confetti on the floor”). The trio shift gears when they take a late-night drive on a “Suicide Mission,” as Wilder grouses, “I’ve done enough with my life not to miss it/Don’t even remember what year it is.”

Wet & Reckless, “No one is expecting me at home/No one’s calling hospitals or waiting by the phone,” Emily Wilder sings on “Suicide Mission,” one of eight tartly delivered garage-pop gems on Wet & Reckless’ debut full-length album, out this month on Lolipop Records. Singer-guitarist Wilder, bassist Jessica Gelt and drummer Jalise Woodward probably draw a lot of comparisons to Best Coast for their hazy, jangly sound, but they’re closer in spirit to veteran L.A. guitar-pop outfits Irving and The Little Ones. Wilder wraps her loneliness and vulnerability in sardonic humor and layers of reverb, especially on the drunken confessional “Walk Me Home” and the deceptively rousing “Machinery.” With Lolipop mastermind Wyatt Blair opening, this final night of Wet & Reckless’ month-long residency at Harvard & Stone should be loaded with whip-smart songwriting and earworm choruses.

Emily Wilder and her strong and somewhat aggressive vocals... Wilder was singing like it was some protest song of the 60s, with an in-your-face, transforming the whole thing into some pseudo-punk anthem with Beach Boys-like riffs. Sure, there was definitively a 60s thing blurred into their songs, but, when the DJ probably intentionally played Best Coast just after their set, I thought it was not exactly that kind of sweet-fuzzy 60s: If Bethany Cosentino sings ‘I wish he was my boyfriend’, Emily Wilder exclaims without even blinking: ‘It’s gonna take a whole lot more than rollin’ around on this little floor for me to fall for you’. Tough gal. 

While all manner of Williamsburg girls have been prancing around in 60’s pop princess costumes (and while Dum Dum Girls are humorlessly doing a more grown-up version of the same thing here in LA), Wet & Reckless have taken a broader, less musically strict (read:”more fun”) approach. — who says an all-girl band has to hide behind a curtain of fuzz and harmonies? And besides, us rockists need an answer to all this throwback girl group business.

Girl group Wet and Reckless is kind of nuts (in a hot way), and make power-pop influenced electro-acoustic crazyness as a result. Their September Silverlake Lounge residency was off the hook and they got rave reviews from their Silverlake Jubilee performance this summer.

Wet and Reckless are a four-piece purveyor of power-pop influenced electro-acoustic succulent ferocity.

Emily has written songs and performed with her band Wet & Reckless and Last In Class based in LA over the past 7 years as well as toured around the states. W&R has hosted many residencies, appeared on Comedy Central's Jon Benjamin Has a Van, and released their first album in February of 2015.

 

They've written original music for Disney's ABC family and Sony Playstation's "Powers" show. Emily has also performed on various commercials for Uniqlo and Japanese JCOM and has written original music for commercials.

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November 24, 2018

The Hi Hat - LA

SLUGS

HOLIDAY SIDEWINDER

MACK

SUPERBLOOM

a benefit for writegirl.com
 

November 3, 2018

The Hive 10 year Anniversary Party

September 14, 2018

Highland Park Bowl, LA

September 5, 2018

Harvard & Stone - Hollywood, CA

August 11, 2018

Moustache - Tijuana, Mexico

with The Holycuts

July 27, 2018

Silverlake Lounge - International Pop Overthrow - LA

April 3, 2018

Nasalrod (Portland - Spit Stix of FEAR)The Teardrop Orchestra (Manhattan Murder Mystery)

Egg Drop Soup

March 21, 2018

Harvard & Stone - Hollywood, CA

January 20, 2018

The R Bar - Los Angeles

February 4, 2018

The Satellite - Los Angeles
HISTORY

2017

Jan 28, 2017 / The Lost Room - LA

Mar 08, 2017 / Al's Den - Downtown Portland, OR

Mar 11, 2017 / Al's Den - Downtown Portland, OR

Mar 16, 2017 / The World Famous Kenton Club - Portland, OR

May 07, 2017 / Turn Turn Turn with Nasalrod, Freddy Trijullo - Portland, OR

Jun 21, 2017 / O'Malley's - Portland, OR

Jul 03, 2017 / Harvard & Stone - Hollywood, CA

Jul 11, 2017 / Dirty Laundry - Hollywood, CA

Jul 19, 2017 / Turn Turn Turn - Portland, OR

Aug 08, 2017 /Harvard & Stone - Hollywood, CA

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