Odessa previews self-titled debut at Bootleg album release show

Odessa previews self-titled debut at Bootleg album release show
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
April 29, 2015

The last of singer-songwriter Odessa’s April residency at The Bootleg culminated in an album release show on Monday for her self-titled full-length debut. The album dropped Apr. 28.

Her album has been highly-anticipated since the release of the song “I Will Be There,” which was featured in ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. Odessa played that song and many others from her new album to a solid crowd at The Bootleg.

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Forecast: 13 Los Angeles Artists and Bands to Watch in 2015

Forecast: 13 Los Angeles Artists and Bands to Watch in 2015
Mark E. Ortega and Sandra Burciaga
GrimyGoods.com
January 6, 2015

Our great city of Los Angeles is gem for discovering new music. Many of the artists and bands that make the City of Angels their home quickly work their way up from playing small venues and underground shows, to selling out famed venues and going on large tours and playing music festivals. Last year, as predicted in our 2014 forecast for artists to watch, we saw it happen with Banks, Lo-Fang, Death Valley Girls, The Moth & Flame and many more L.A. based acts. This year we’ve selected a new crop of talented and promising Los Angeles artists and bands who are sure to create quite the excitement in 2015. While we are aware that there are plenty more bands who are just as promising, these our selections for the 13 Los Angeles Artists and Bands to Watch in 2015.

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Hot New Artist: Odessa

Hot New Artist: Odessa
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
August 7, 2014

Sometimes it takes just one song to be hooked on a new artist. This applies in the case of Los Angeles-based Odessa, a talented singer/songwriter that should definitely be on your watch list.

Her lone track available, “I Will Be There”, has been featured in a couple of commercial and T.V. spots over the past year. In fact, if you search the lyrics, you’ll find a number of people frantically trying to figure out who the artist is, whether they stumbled across it from a Subaru commercial or an episode of ABC’s Mistresses. There just wasn’t much out there on Odessa.

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