Highlights and Reviews
Highlights
featured on the Californication Soundtrack, ESPN, the Rosario Dawson film Descent, and a new film premiering at Cannes starring Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire) and John Slattery (Mad Men) called Return. Rosario Dawson also guest stars in his California Run video.
"The country-inflected, California Run, breezes by like a convertible cruising down the PCH, sounding like a long-lost Old 97's track that was recently unearthed." -- Magnet Magazine
"Like the soundtrack to the best road movie never made, it mixes the Eagles and ELO with a shot of Glam...Sun drenched 70's Rock doesn't come any fresher." -- Tuneraker
Influences
T Rex, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Ryan Adams, The Who, Small Faces, Velvet Underground, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Diamond, Cheap Trick
Bio
Sensitive singer/songwriter or glam rock animal?
If you think no one can be both, you've never met Neil Nathan.
Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry, The Go) described his upcoming debut LP, The Distance Calls, as Alice Cooper meets Cat Stevens.
From his mirror ball masked lead role in the Off-Broadway rock opera, Automatic Superstar, to his folky cover of ELO's 'Do Ya' featured on the Californication Season 2 Soundtrack, Neil has mined these extremes deftly. They are also on display in the indie film 'Descent,' starring Rosario Dawson, in which two of his ethereal ballads and one of his bluesy garage numbers are featured.
Neil is on the Californication Season 2 Soundtrack alongside Sheryl Crow, Nick Cave, and Warren Zevon. But he says the best thing about the whole experience was that Jeff Lynne had to approve the song and loved it.
On the heels of this recent success, Neil has inked a licensing deal with North Star Media; home of such luminaries as Mudhoney, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, and the one and only, Cher.
Nathan's upcoming project is a full-length, garage-rocking album entitled The Distance Calls, and recorded last spring at Tempermill Studios with The Go's Bobby Harlow. Harlow brought together many of the Motor City's top rock-n-rollers, with Dean Fertita (QOTSA, Raconteurs), Kenny Tudrick (Kid Rock, Detroit Cobras), John Krautner (The Go), Joey Mazzola (Sponge, Detroit Cobras), Danny Methric (The Muggs, The Paybacks), Loretta Lucas (Sisters Lucas) and Ross Westerbur providing support.