“Every day’s a blessing/Every day’s a problem,” Sarah Tudzin sings on her fourth album, Power. If the sentiment is ambivalent, the sound is anything but: a sharp power-pop bounce that opens up into a radiant chorus. Tudzin, a Los Angeles singer-songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist who has been recording as Illuminati Hotties since the …
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Two years ago, Sarah Tudzin found herself alone in the Joshua Tree desert. Armed with some recording gear, her pitbull mix, Maeby, and a turned-off cell phone, she holed up in an Airbnb in an attempt to get real about making the fourth Illuminati Hotties record. But first, she had …
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Hopeless Records will celebrate its 30th anniversary next month with an exhibit and performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The punk label will head to Cleveland on the weekend of Aug. 24 and 25, with the first day featuring acoustic performances by Illuminati Hotties, Waterparks’ Awsten Knight, …
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Illuminati Hotties is officially back in full sunshine-tinged rock glory with a new album, Power. Sarah Tudzin, the innovative indie producer behind the project, set the release date for August 23. The fourth LP from Illuminati Hotties is out on Hopeless Records, which Tudzin has had imprint label Snack Shack …
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Iluminati Hotties, the project of Sarah Tudzin, is back with the chill rocker “Can’t Be Still.” The new single opens with a crisp guitar riff, as Tudzin sings, “I triple-book my Saturdays/But I pretend/My program keeps me from freaking out.” In the video below, she ambles around Los Angeles before …
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