Bad Weather California

Eclectic alt-folk purveyors Bad Weather California draw influences from '60s psychedelia, reggae, and African music traditions to create a soundtrack worthy of any freakout or happening. The group began in 1998 as the collective <a href="spotify:artist:6f1pc9U5CE1yHV4kMt9vXJ">the Love Letter Band</a>, who released a handful of records on <a href="spotify:artist:6a5w4wOqUEzhA7zZKK8Wiq">Boyracer</a> frontman Stewart Anderson's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22555%22">555</a> imprint, but following various lineup changes renamed themselves Bad Weather California (their first choice, California, was already in use by a Los Angeles-based roots rock outfit). The band is comprised of core members singer/guitarist Chris Adolf, guitarist Adam Baumeister (<a href="spotify:artist:2FHb2wOGhQsThrsSyelHdE">Littles Paia</a>, DJ Freedom Hater), bassist/guitarist/backing vocalist Joe Sampson (A Dog Paloma, Wentworth Kersey), and drummer Logan Corcoran (M Pyres, Team Awesome). Adolf and Baumeister met through the late-'90s home recording community, and by 2002 a mutual friend linked up Adolf and Sampson. Bad Weather California toured with <a href="spotify:artist:4Sw0SFu1fFdYXdAEVdrqnO">Mount Eerie</a> in fall 2006, offered a single for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Happy+Happy+Birthday+to+Me%22">Happy Happy Birthday to Me</a> a year later, and acted as the backing band for <a href="spotify:artist:1jeYbk5eqo6wgsQPjLeU5w">Daniel Johnston</a> in a rare spring 2008 gig. The following winter, the band played with <a href="spotify:artist:64l9cD8tQscYZCGRLlNm3f">Akron/Family</a> for the first time, the beginning of what would be a long relationship between the two groups, and soon after released its full-length debut, Young Punks, on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22States+Rights%22">States Rights</a> label. As 2011 arrived, Bad Weather California called on <a href="spotify:artist:64l9cD8tQscYZCGRLlNm3f">Akron/Family</a> singer/multi-instrumentalist <a href="spotify:artist:2EP9OGghEKJ0m68hpuyHp1">Seth Olinsky</a> to record sophomore album Sunkissed at High Bias Studios in Detroit, tiding over fans in the meantime with a limited-edition demos/concert recordings LP on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22St.+Ives%22">St. Ives</a>. The rest of 2011 saw the band touring with <a href="spotify:artist:2h9yQhKyqOMex3QFMVeq7F">Meat Puppets</a> and releasing a single for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fire+Talk%22">Fire Talk</a>; as the following year began, they hit the road with <a href="spotify:artist:64l9cD8tQscYZCGRLlNm3f">Akron/Family</a> and released Sunkissed on <a href="spotify:artist:64l9cD8tQscYZCGRLlNm3f">Akron/Family</a>'s own <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Family+Tree%22">Family Tree</a> label. ~ Chrysta Cherrie, Rovi