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Color Wall

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If music was a color, what color would it be? It’s an excellent question, especially in the context of Color Wall’s dense guitars reinforced by compelling rhythms and lyrics that paint sharply focused pictures of where we’ve been and where we could be going.

The Los Angeles-based band…Jeff Burgee (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion), Andrew Loeser (drums), Justin Billmeier (guitar) and Andrew Katos (bass) — are indie rock heroes with a commercial radio advantage. Color Wall established their place on both sides of the independent vs. mainstream divide with the five-song EP, Blue, which made a Top 10 splash on college and specialty radio playlists from coast to coast in 2002, followed by the FMQB Top Twenty success of their 2003 release, Red, which peaked at No. 12 in the country.

However, Color Wall’s steady build began on the foundation laid out in 1997 when the Ralph Lauren Polo Jeans Division tagged them Best Unsigned Band in America, and Modern Rock radio gave the cd single track, Flower, a dizzying 4000 spins.

Color Wall’s fifth release and first full-length CD, The View From Above, produced by Burgee, is poised to take them to even greater heights when it hits store shelves in early 2005. The first emphasis track, ‘The Weakest’ is already at a strong advantage, muscling into mainstream Modern Rock radio specialty shows and crossing over to regular playlists. In the mean time, the band is making The View From Above available in advance at www.colorwall.com.