SG Radio feat. Park Lane – Sunday October 16th0

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This Sunday (October 16th) our special in-studio guests will be Park Lane.

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About Park Lane

Park Lane are: Michael Keller (guitar), Carley Coma (vocals), Grayson Hurd (guitar), Cameron Stucky (drums), and Clayton Wages (bass).

There are coincidences and then there are coincidences. The kind of eerie, make-the-hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck-stand-up coincidences that cause you to do a double take and then force you to realize that the universe has plans for you beyond your control and that some things are just meant to be and are part of a greater musical master plan.

That happened with Park Lane when they unearthed new vocalist Carley Coma, who sings on their full-length, the pulse-pounding, sticks-in-your-head-for-days Letters From the Fire.

Carley Coma made quite a name for himself in the late ’90s and early ’00s by singing for Candiria, a groundbreaking neo-jazz-metal fusion band from the mean streets of Brooklyn. Candiria were pretty much revered in the metal scene for their genre-bending ways. The core members of Park Lane, who are all based in the Bay Area, were not familiar with Carley’s prior work in Candiria and they did not seek him out because of it. In fact, they received an enormous amount of applications for their vocal vacancy, but none was the correct fit. Then they heard (and met) Carley Coma.

It was serendipitous. The chemistry was instant. The personal connection was quick and easy, while the professional and musical connection needed about 30 seconds to develop, as melodies spilled out the singer on the spot and songs essentially wrote themselves. More on that in a moment, but all of those crucial factors were not the main reason that Park Lane knew he was the one.

There was a massive coincidence and some cosmic force that we can’t see or hear at play, acting as the architect of the new Park Lane lineup.

Carley recalls, “There is a song on the album called “A Lonely Shade of Red” and they sent it to me and I wrote the whole song and the first line of the song is the same first line that their old singer had written for the song.” No, he’s not kidding. “It was extremely weird. The lyrics are: ‘She cuts herself to numb it all.’ I could have written the song any other way, but that’s what I wrote. It was the same exact words, and it was off by maybe a word, but it was the same subject matter.”

How’s that for eerie? Even Carley himself was tempted to throw the phone by how weirded out he was when his new band members told him that nugget of information. No one prepped the singer in advance about how or what to write. No one briefed him about how the song initially played out. He just stepped into the role seamlessly and cosmically. Guitarist Mike Keller concurred, “That’s when we knew.”

Creepy coincidences aside, with Park Lane and Letters From the Fire, fate, the two American coasts and many genres collide in a combustible cocktail of music that you can’t shake from your brain. The record was produced by Michael Rosen (Papa Roach, Tesla, AFI) and it’s a true coming out party for the band.

Park Lane began in 2007, while Keller and guitarist Grayson Hurd were in high school together. The band continued through their collegiate careers, with Hurd recently graduating with a degree in business admin and music. They had a singer, played shows, released a self-titled EP, but the former vocalist wasn’t the right one. Keller acknowledged, “When we decided to do this album and started recording, through the touring and getting to know each other more, we realized it wasn’t for our singer anymore.” He was asked to leave and the band put out a national APB looking for a singer. The aforementioned 2000 hopefuls applied, but nothing was clicking and there was a lot of junk to sift through. Then, bassist Clayton Wages reached out to Carley. “As soon as he sent us the first demo of his vocal, we said, ‘That’s our guy,'” Keller revealed. It’s another instance of that whole “meant to be” phenomena that defines Letters From the Fire, since the band reached out to their singer, despite copious amounts of prospects. There’s something about just knowing when it’s right.

Link Love

http://www.parklaneband.com/
http://www.facebook.com/PLband?sk=app_178091127385
http://www.twitter.com//parklaneband
http://www.youtube.com/parklanevideos