Warpaint Interview

Warpaint is an all-girl quartet hailing from Los Angeles, with music encapsulating elements of experiment rock, laden with hypnotic vocals, intricate melodies and accomplished guitars. After several years dazzling audiences the band are getting the recognition they deserve and will be cropping up all over the festival scene in the summer after the successful release of their album ‘The Fool’ in 2010. I spoke to Theresa Wayman (vocals and guitars) to find out about her experiences in a band that are currently making the music scene take notice.  

For those people who haven't heard any of Warpaint’s music how do you describe it to people?

It's a party of quirky, melodic, groovy, roll and rock and everyone is invited!

How did the band meet?

Meeting the girls of Warpaint was a breath of fresh air...we had all recently moved to LA and as you can imagine there are many people here that are difficult to relate to...LA has a strong Barbie culture.  So anyway, we were immediately drawn to each other.  We all played music individually so it only seemed natural to try playing together. It turned out we all approached music similarly...in an organic, let's see what comes out naturally without preconceptions kind of way. From the first time we played together it was on!

Where does the name Warpaint come from?

 It's the spirit of our music...seemed the only thing to call ourselves.