About Warpaint
Warpaint is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2004. The band consists of Emily Kokal , Theresa Wayman , Jenny Lee Lindberg , and Stella Mozgawa .
To date, the band has released four studio albums: The Fool , Warpaint , Heads Up , and Radiate Like This .
Warpaint formed in Los Angeles on Valentine's Day 2004. The original lineup consisted of childhood friends Wayman and Kokal alongside sisters Lindberg and Shannyn Sossamon. The band played in the Los Angeles area for three years, writing songs which would eventually comprise their debut EP. According to Jenny Lindberg in a 2011 Guardian interview, the band originally went by the name World War 4 and changed their name to Warpaint only after writing their song "Warpaint" . "I've been asked a few times, 'Oh, why did you name it "Warpaint"?'—as though we were naming the song after our band, when it's actually the other way around."
The band began recording their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse, in December 2007, with producer Jacob Bercovici. The sessions took over two months and concluded with mixing and mastering by John Frusciante, who was also Kokal's boyfriend at the time. Warpaint self-released the EP in 2008, which quickly moved to No. 1 on the Los Angeles Amoeba Records local artist chart. In 2009, Exquisite Corpse was rereleased worldwide by Manimal Vinyl, to critical acclaim. The song "Elephants" featured in the 2011 independent horror film Siren, directed by Andrew Hull and released by Lionsgate.
Former RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer performed drums and guitar on the EP in 2007.
Australian drummer Mozgawa joined the band in the winter of 2009. Shortly afterwards, Warpaint were signed to Rough Trade Records, and immediately began extensive touring throughout the United States and Europe, including an opening slot for the xx.
On December 6, 2010, the BBC announced that Warpaint had been nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll and they were the cover stars of Beat magazine's Winter 2010 launch issue.
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