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Emily has written songs and performed with her band Wet & Reckless based in LA over the past 8 years as well as toured around the states. W&R has hosted many residencies, appeared on Comedy Central's Jon Benjamin Has a Van, and released their first album in February of 2015.
They've written original music for Disney's ABC family and Sony Playstation's "Powers" show. Emily has also performed on various commercials for Uniqlo and Japanese JCOM and has written original music for commercials.
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Singer-guitarist Emily Wilder, bassist Jessica Gelt and drummer Jalise Woodward probably draw a lot of comparisons to Best Coast for their hazy, jangly sound, but they’re closer in spirit to veteran L.A. guitar-pop outfits Irving and The Little Ones.
Emily Wilder and her strong and somewhat aggressive vocals... Wilder was singing like it was some protest song of the 60s, with an in-your-face, transforming the whole thing into some pseudo-punk anthem with Beach Boys-like riffs. Sure, there was definitively a 60s thing blurred into their songs, but, when the DJ probably intentionally played Best Coast just after their set, I thought it was not exactly that kind of sweet-fuzzy 60s: If Bethany Cosentino sings ‘I wish he was my boyfriend’, Emily Wilder exclaims without even blinking: ‘It’s gonna take a whole lot more than rollin’ around on this little floor for me to fall for you’. Tough gal.
While all manner of Williamsburg girls have been prancing around in 60’s pop princess costumes (and while Dum Dum Girls are humorlessly doing a more grown-up version of the same thing here in LA), Wet & Reckless have taken a broader, less musically strict (read:”more fun”) approach. — who says an all-girl band has to hide behind a curtain of fuzz and harmonies? And besides, us rockists need an answer to all this throwback girl group business.
Girl group Wet and Reckless is kind of nuts (in a hot way), and make power-pop influenced electro-acoustic crazyness as a result. Their September Silverlake Lounge residency was off the hook and they got rave reviews from their Silverlake Jubilee performance this summer.
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