#johnny odonnell

Happy Halloween everyone! If you're like me, you've spent the day buying 99 cent orange cupcakes at A&P, and renting Ghostbusters at Blockbuster. Luckily, Johnny O'Donnell came through once again to make the day, or at least this site, a whole lot more enjoyable. O'Donnell was awesomely gracious enough to allow Neotomic premiere the newest music video (and a perfect one for Halloween) for his and Sacramento's song "Roaming Thing." Directed by Jeremy Sage of the band, this video, as usual, is a lot like O'Donnell's music: there are so many varied, yet wonderfully and expertly stylistic, elements going on that you can never quite place your finger accurately enough on what it is, but you know you love it. I may just be biased because this is on my site, but this is easily one of my favorite videos this year, and I've always thought this was one of Sacramento's best implementation of the pedal steel. Thanks again to the band, and if you haven't yet read my recent interview with O'Donnell, check it out here:

I've strongly believe that Los Angeles has one of the current greatest music scenes in America, and is unmatched aside from, perhaps, Chicago or Nashville. Sure, that's not to say all it is good. You know who I'm talking to, Mr. starts in W, ends in S, filled with AVVE. Anyway, both Dante Vs. Zombies, and Johnny O'Donnell and Sacramento recently released new videos, "Oblivion" and "Loose Cannons," respectively, and both happen to undoubtedly be two of the year's greatest videos. 

And if you haven't yet check out our interview with Dante White Aliano here:

Johnny O'Donnell is, perhaps, one of the few musicians around today who can say he understands what Brian was doing on Pet Sounds, and what he was trying to do on Smile, without having you snicker behind his back. Everyone else says that they're either influenced by the Beach Boys or Phil Spector anymore, but yet I can't help but feel like something got lost in translation, when almost every male voice comes off as incredibly whining and tiresome. -Cody