Rooftop Revolutionaries launch Rolling Rebellion in LA with Eleanor Goldfield’s soaring, voice and in your face progressive lyrics.
By: Patrick O’Heffernan, Host Music FridayLive! Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy, the national movement rolling into cities across the country during the first two weeks of July in an effort to loosen the corporate stranglehold over America’s democracy, moved into the At Play At DTLA space in the LA Arts District Friday night. The event was a fundraiser for Occupy Venice and it featured a lineup of poets, activist speakers and the comedian Lee Camp. But for me, the highlight of the event was the LA-based progressive hard rock band Rooftop Revolutionaries. Eleanor Goldfield, co-founder and lead singer, showed her stunning vocal range, moving from soaring soprano notes to gritty blues belts and then down into deep bass – almost Tibetan throat singing – in a high energy, 7-song set that electrified the room. The musicians- Brian Marshak on guitar, Stanley Love on drums, Mikael “Redbeard” Gustavsson on bass and Colin Reid on guitar, moved like a single organism, scaffolding Eleanor’s singing and putting forceful beats to the political message she was pumping out. The band opened [Read More]
