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Polaris Rose rises with love, chemistry and joy by Patrick O’Heffernan

April 20, 2015

  “Joy” is not a word normally associated with alt. rock, but Friday night Polaris Rose produced some of the most joy-filled l music I have ever  heard on the stage of the venerable Hotel Café in Hollywood. The gifted musical couple Peter Anthony and Madelynn Elyse have grown their melodious talent and tightened their onstage personal chemistry several orders of magnitude since they released their 2013 debut EP, “The Moon & its Secrets” – and they were impressive then.  Today, Polaris Rose is now undeniably in the top rung of LA’s nationally-recognized alt rock pantheon. Joined by guitarist Matt Saba and drummer Carlos Beltran, Peter and Maddie played songs from all of their albums plus a new song, “Tiger Bait”,  that they debuted in January on Instagram.  Their evolution over the past two years was brilliantly obvious.  Joy with precision flowed from the stage as Peter and Maddie and the band moved through a diverse 8- song set that swung from  magically mystical to soaring rock. But no matter how diverse the music, each song was [Read More]

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Polaris Rose establishes itself as an indie rock power with  Telescopes

December 8, 2014

By Patrick O’Heffernan, Host, Music Friday Live! I  love to watch bands mature and solidify their unique style so they can stand apart in the very crowded music universe.  Polaris Rose has done that with their debut album, Telescopes,  following up the 2013 release of their impressive EP, The Moon and Its Secrets.  Moon made the rock world notice that a unique new talent was emerging. With Telescopes, Polaris Rose  has emerged. Telescopes establishes the partnership of Peter Anthony and Madelyn Elyse as a breakout indie rock creative force  headed for the top.  It is a masterwork of sophisticated songwriting, gracefully complex arrangements and stratospheric guitar playing woven seamlessly together with luminous vocals. There is nothing like it. Peter Anthony’s voice delivers an emotional charge that goes beyond the personal lyrics  threaded throughout the album. In “Radio XYZ”, when he sings I’d turn my back and  leave  you for the California coast/ I’m better off alone, the high, almost disembodied timber of his voice makes the words larger than life – they become about a [Read More]

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Oceansongs lights the afterburner on the Polaris Rose skyrocket. by Patrick O’Heffernan

June 2, 2014

Polaris Rose has been characterized as alt. rock, but I don’t call them that.  Maddie Elyse and Peter Anthony, better known as Polaris Rose, create music that I call The Polaris Rose Sound because there is nothing like it.   These two young singer/songwriters bring progressive rock, hot jazz, metal and pop together with male-female congruence and musical brilliance that creates a whole that is much larger than the sum of its parts. And they do it in the studio and on stage with equal ease. There new EP, Oceansongs, is a megadose of the flowing harmonies, metal guitar and high concept lyrics that has made this enormously talented pair a flaming comet in the star-crowded sky of LA music. Opening with “Goddess”, a cut kicked off with a drum and guitar explosion like a fast-moving storm, it quickly slides into a dreamy waterscape woven with Peter’s voice and guitar and Maddie’s backup echo and bass. A call to a love-hate goddess, Peter chronicles his beautiful anguish and we feel it with the rise and fall [Read More]