Flashlight Faces / Wild Class / I Am a Rocketship

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Atlanta-based Flashlight Faces is how singer-songwriter Paul Buchholz blends his love of 70’s AOR from across the pond with a fascination with gothic literature and weird tales. These four veteran musicians came together to create a riffy, rocking soundtrack for Bucholz’ large and haunting collection of songs. Buchholz hooked up with Joe Binns (Elf Power, Allgood, Springwild) during the pandemic, and the two emailed the audio files back and forth that would eventually become their first record, 'Off on the Moons, released in March 2023, with Englishman John Ballam joining on bass.
Flashlight Faces has since become a steady presence in the metro Atlanta rock scene, with organist Ryan Dawe joining in the summer of 2023. Their new LP ‘Fool’s Field,’ was recorded in April 2024 at Flossy Monk Studio. Featuring eight new vintage rock songs, the album captures the quartet at the height of their energy, and will release this July.
 
Wild Class plays tragicomic rock songs about tough luck, bad dreams, and how we as humans deal with it. 
Led by singer-songwriter Blake Rainey on guitar and his wife Kendra Rainey on backing vocals and organ, the haunted lyrics they sing resolve into raucous epiphanies as the rhythm section of Andy Tegethoff (bass, keys) and Eric Young (Drums) shakes it to life and brings it all back home. 
These are emotional and musically taut story-songs, sometimes tragic without redemption, told through a sympathetic, cinematic lens. And as they say: nothing lasts, born in the Wild Class. 
 
A college radio DJ, choir member, cellist, and singer of Swedish synth-pop duo Neobox, her musical background could hardly have been more different than Eric’s. Nonetheless, their shared love of Rammstein and Bob Dylan led them to form Hitchcock Blondes in Cleveland, Ohio. They then moved to Atlanta, creating I Am a Rocketship to free themselves from the restrictions of conventional bands. In 2016 the duo released an album, Mission Control, followed by 2019’s Mind Grafitti. Ghost Stories, an 11-song album, was released in 2020, followed the same year by the 5-song oRAnGE.
As a bassist, guitarist, and singer, Eric Weissinger had opened for bands such as The Wedding Present, James, Cracker, and Portastatic. After playing on an Anne Richmond Boston album featuring Syd Straw, Marti Jones, Don Dixon, and Terry Adams, he took a break from music until a chance meeting with L E Kippner changed everything.
In 2021, the duo released the 10-song Lies and Legends. followed by 2023’s La Cruella. They are currently writing material for a 2024 release.