Williams plays a brand of pop music that is hard to categorize—his melodies are the crux of the songs, but the subtle augmented instrumentation and the soaring guitars are what sets him apart from contemporaries. The pop comparisons to Nilsson and Clifford Ward can definitely be heard in Williams’ songwriting and it excites me that Los Angeles has someone that is playing a modern twist on these kinds of tunes on a regular basis.

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After a 40-minute wait, the huge screen above the stage showed Lil Wayne preparing to perform. The crowd in the Honda Center shrieked. When he appeared on stage, bass shook the whole venue, making Lil Wayne almost inaudible, but the audience knew every single word anyway. As explosions spontaneously blasted, everyone was out of their seats, entranced by the tattooed, dreadlocked rapper with the bejeweled teeth.

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Hunx is Seff (of Gravy Train!!! and trash-glam-punk-pop going all the way back to an Appleby’s in Tucson, Arizona) and Hunx and His Punx are Seff leading wide-eyed rocker babies through songs equal parts dirty Undertones and dirty underwear. They finish a wild visit to L.A. with an appearance at tonight’s vital Burger Basher! next door to the Smell. This interview by Daniel Clodfelter.

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burger co-owner lee rickerd (r) and nobunny

Download: The Burger Basher! Mixtape

Hunx & His Punx “You Don’t Like Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Harlem “South of France”
White Night “Settle This”
Nobunny “Monster Kiss”
Thee Makeout Party! “Kids”
Hunx & His Punx “I Won’t Get Under You”
Devon Williams “Forthcoming”
Thee Makeout Party! “Change”
Harlem “Caroline”
Nobunny “Apple Tree”

Anaheim’s Burger Records picks up bands that could have [...]

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Download: Devon Williams “A Truce”

(from “A Truce” 45 on L.A. RECORD)
Devon Williams is playing a show with us on Sat., Oct. 25, at the Prospector in Long Beach with fellow cover alums thee Makeout Party and Greater California. He did an interview for the Long Beach paper that you can read here:
What drives [...]

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Z Controls + Article 1 + L.A. Record present:

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From Devon Williams, our first released recording artist:
Well, how are you today?
TGIF, right…
I’m playing on kxlu today (today is friday, by the way) at 5pm with a string quartet…
NO DRUMS ON THIS ONE! Who needs him!
88.9 (unless you live too far)
See you in radio land!
-Devon
Visit kxlu.com to listen live at five!

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