Frontwoman Laura Patiño started Holiday Mountain in 2011 with keyboardist/bassist Bradley Will and drummer Zander Kagle when all three were students at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, coalescing around common influences and quirks. Holiday Mountain slams with a club-friendly combination of contemporary Dance Pop, eccentric Art Pop and Indie Rock-tinged Hip Hop. The trio’s latest EP, You Be You, Part 1, and its predecessors, 2012’s Become Who You Are and 2011’s Happy People, are
Frontwoman Laura Patiño started Holiday Mountain in 2011 with keyboardist/bassist Bradley Will and drummer Zander Kagle when all three were students at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, coalescing around common influences and quirks. Holiday Mountain slams with a club-friendly combination of contemporary Dance Pop, eccentric Art Pop and Indie Rock-tinged Hip Hop. The trio’s latest EP, You Be You, Part 1, and its predecessors, 2012’s Become Who You Are and 2011’s Happy People, are jammed with female empowerment anthems and wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling dance-tronic brilliance. And, seriously, check out Holiday Mountain’s ass-wrecking spin through Techtronic’s “Pump Up the Jam.”
YOU’LL DIG IT IF YOU DIG: Lene Lovich, Iggy Azalea and Deee-Lite team up for a Hip Hop Gypsy Jazz side project based on the life of The B52’s. (BB)