About

The Pocket Rockets (the name is arbitrary in its meaning, coined just for the sake of a band name) started playing in a small bed room in East Los Angeles, California. At the beginning, being that it was the first band the members had joined, the trio produced innocent and minimalist sounds. Ralph, Lyndon and Chris have known each other most of there lives. They attended the same schools and decided to start a band in the summer before sophomore year of high school. Through the years the band developed their sound with a combination of experimental guitar sounds, catchy bass riffs and steady and fluctuating drum beats. Although the band has matured in that time, it still retains an innocence that so many bands loose in their development. The music consists of many different inspirations shared buy the band members. Inspirations range from bands like Interpol, The Strokes and even The Misfits. Their inspirations, though, do not register in their music, at least not at the surface. They have a spacey sounds with echoes of arcade videogames’ soundtracks. You can label their sound as uncanny, in the sense that it sounds both unfamiliar and familiar at times. The Pocket Rockets were one of the first bands (although do not get much credit for this) to change the east Los Angeles backyard scene from being an absolute domain to punk and thrash bands. They created an environment where the indie bands where accepted, praised and flourished. In their short existence the band managed to get many notable shows and radio play on the now defunked Indie 103.1 and a set on KXLU through word of mouth. Now the Pocket Rockets have recently had a chance to share their music and experience through the release of their debut single “Golden Gloves 1902” released through the newly established Sonata Cantata Records, headed by producer and former Eve 6 And Monsters Are Waiting member Jon Siebels, The Band met Jon through various encounters, one being when Lyndon backed into the bus of Monsters Are Waiting, interrupting an interview. When asked what kind of music they would label themselves as, the band described themselves as, “progressive indie rock.” The singing of Ralph Blanco can be described as sincere and with echoes of Paul Banks. And the guitar of Lyndon Miller is simple, consisting of many single note catchy pickings, but with a complex spacey tone that’s individual. The lyrics themselves are mostly dealing with Ralph’s subjective experience with reality and dealing with his experience with love. Although the band has been playing for about 6 years, playing at venues ranging from Los Angeles’ The Smell and Spaceland, the pocket rockets continue making music that sounds like it is in a stage of developing, refusing to label themselves with any type of genre or “wave” of music.