Lips Like Morphine
Genres: New wave, Rock
Web site: http://www.lipslikemorphine.com
Charles and Ahmad Earland are sons of 60’s jazz organist Charles "the Mighty Burner" Earland. Ahmad has been playing drums for a countless number of years. When Ahmad moved to Las Vegas several years after Charles from their native city of New York, they decided to join forces on a musical venture of their own. Charles had been in Las Vegas for 6 years and was inspired by the rise of his friend Brandon Flower’s band, The Killers, to almost overnight stardom. Charles asked Dell Star, a long time friend and original bass player for The Killers, to come by one night and check out the project. Dell was a perfect fit and immediately joined up with the brothers. PJ, new to Las Vegas but not to music, answered an ad on MySpace like several other guitarists around town that did not make the grade. Charles, Ahmad and Dell were skeptical since PJ was the only guitar player that showed up to the audition without his guitar! He was auditioning Lips Like Morphine! He was asked to come back a second time, this time with a guitar, and that’s all she wrote! Synth and keyboard play a major role in the Lips Like Morphine sound. However, finding the right musician to fill those shoes wasn’t an easy task... Until Dell found out co-worker Chris Lash was a classically trained pianist and a musical director at UNLV Theatre Dept...Band Complete!
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All the Beautiful Creatures
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Sticks and Stones
- Recent Appearances
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Lips Like Morphine at The Bunkhouse
Lips Like Morphine at Feelgood's
Low vs. Diamond at Wasted Space
Imagine Dragons at Beauty Bar
cheapPLASTIK! with Lips Like Morphine at The Aruba Lounge
- Musicians:
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Dell Star – Bass
Ahmad Earland – Drums
PJ – Guitar
Chris Lash – Keyboards
Charles Earland – Vocals - Formed:
- 2007, Las Vegas, NV
- Influences
- Muse, New Order, The Smiths, STP, Korn, The Killers, Depeche Mode
- Current status
- Recording an EP
- Discography:
Sugarush- Released: 2008
- Related Links:
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Check out Lips Like Morphine's MySpace page
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Lips like morphine is amazing!!! I love their music...Mrs Heartbreat is going to be number one in the future. These kids are going to follow to footstep of The Killers. I'm very proud of them. To people out there lets support them, our home town boys!!!
Posted by: monnaroseldg on 9/26/08 at 9:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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Barry Oslander has been involved directly in the signing, production and music publishing of many major recording artists and songwriters who have grossed in excess of $100 million for record and music publishing companies. He has been involved with twenty-one gold and platinum albums and many gold singles. Barry's experience in the record business covers a recording engineer, production, management, music publishing, A&R, including VP Head of A&R West Coast for RCA Records, Foreign Record Sales, and video production.
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