By Eric The Red
In recent days, our local music scene has been going through a recovery from a massive recession of local shows. At its peak, our valley had local bands playing shows all throughout the week and through the weekend. For some reason, unbeknownst to me, bands just stopped playing and venues closed their doors. Now that the area has begun rebuilding the scene, some of the old bands are coming back into the light. One such band is Lexilust. Describing their music as Punk, Hardcore and Electronic, Lexilust is ready to help in renewing our scene to its former glory.
Comprised of vocalist Adam Levy, Josh Reef on the drums, guitarist Sean Brown and Mike Aaronson holding down the low end on bass, Lexilust originally began playing music in 2003. During their time together, the band built a loyal and undying fanbase. After some time, the members decided to put Lexilust on the back burner, and focus on other creative endeavors. When asked what made them decide to get back together, Adam stated, “Basically, for many years now, we’ve been getting a lot of emails, and friends and old fans have always asked, ‘Why did you stop playing?’ and we didn’t do it on purpose, life just kind of brought us apart. We all kinda did our own things. Josh went on to start Fight Fair, I went on to make movies and stuff. Basically, just popular demand [brought us back]. We heard our friends in Losing Team were playing a reunion show, and we did one about 5 years ago, so we thought, why not do one now? There’s never a better time. We just got everyone on the same page and started hashing it out.”
With a response like that, you might think that this reunion show was a last minute, spur of the moment gig. It turns out, that is not the case. “We’ve always been talking, and we’ve always had a really big part of our heart in Lexilust. We never really broke up or anything, we just went on to pursue other creative passions,” Josh said. He continued by stating, “It’s funny how the saying goes, ‘If it’s meant to be, it comes back to you.’ We’ve really been kind of overwhelmed by the support over the years.”
Not only has the support of their fans brought them back to our music scene, it’s also given the band the initiative to get new music out to the masses. When asked what their plans were after the show, the band stated, “We plan on getting in the studio to record some new songs, possibly an EP for all of the fans that we have, but we kinda feel like we owe it to ourselves and the people who supported us to come out with some new music for them to listen to. That’s the game plan.”
I wanted to get a bit more in depth in regards to their recording, so I asked them if they could give me any additional info about their new CD. “We want to record anywhere between 3 and 5 new songs and we’ll release them on Soundcloud and we’ll talk about it on our Facebook page. We want to get into the studio sometime between now and March.”
So not only is this a spectacular reunion show, it’s also the kickoff for a reinvigorated Lexilust to spread their music to the masses. Be sure to head out to Bar in Palm Spring, Friday, December 27 and catch Lexilust with Ming Tran, Losing Team, and Red Receipt with a special DJ set by Infinitee. The show is 21+ with a $10 cover at the door.
