Kevin Haskins of Love and Rockets and Bauhaus and producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES) have teamed up to create the Los Angeles Rising compilation, a fire relief benefit project which will donate proceeds to Sweet Relief. The release, out now exclusively on Bandcamp, features artwork by Shepard Fairey and 16 songs. These include previously unreleased recordings from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Gary Numan, Primal Scream, Devo, Danny Elfman, and many more.
Other highlights include “Turn Into Redux” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, an alternative take on the closer to their 2006 LP Show Your Bones, and a stripped back cover of “California Dreamin’” by Jarvis Cocker recorded back in 2020.
Said Kevin Haskins: “As the wildfires were raging and destroying thousands of homes around Los Angeles, both my neighborhood and Nick’s were instructed to evacuate. But we were the lucky ones. The fire threatening our homes and recording studios was thankfully extinguished by firefighters just minutes away, but countless musicians and friends lost everything.”
Check out the compilation below and a live acoustic rendition of Cocker’s performance here.
