Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone watching.

Welcome to Rhythm Lounge, where we spotlight the top musical talent from across the Inland Empire.

My name is Manny Sandoval, and I'm your host.

And today, you'll have the opportunity to listen and learn about a band that is modern yet vintage, who recently transitioned their sound from hard rock to blues and soul.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Cold Cut.

All right, everybody, this song's called Sunlight.

Some nights I get lost with the thought of you And the light I caught I hope it never fades Like the sun after rain Makes me believe in something Wooo yeah It's alright I can't get enough of your burning sunlight Pretty eyes, summer smile running through my mind Like sweet chamomile soothes the pain away give me a loving hand make me believe in something Wooo yeah It's alright I can't get enough of your burning sunlight Take me Take my loving hand Come on and take me Take me Take my loving hand Come on and take me Take me Take me baby, please Make me believe in somethin' Wooo yeah It's alright I can't get enough of your burning sunlight Burning sunlight Watching colors fading Left in memories Yeah As the leaves start falling Summer slips away Yeah Time moves swift, I know And then, comes winter's snow While I'm on why Another day goes by She's calling She's calling Out my window My innocence is fleeting So it seems these days Yeah I know I can take it But try to understand Yeah Time, moves swift, I know And then, comes winter's snow While I'm on why Another day goes by She's calling She's calling Out my window Everybody, thank you so much for tuning in.

Welcome back to Rhythm Lounge.

We are here with the band Cold Cut guys.

How are you feeling?

Pretty good.

Good.

Awesome.

So let's have you guys introduce yourself.

You're the name of the instrument you play and how old you were when you got into music.

Oh, well, I'm Corey, I'm the newest member of Cold Cut.

I play the keyboard right over there.

And, I started playing music when I was really young.

My dad had a piano that I would.

Or a keyboard that I'd always play.

Yeah.

So ever since I was young, I'm Lou, I'm the bass player of the band.

And I got into music around the age of 18.

19.

Gotcha.

I'm, I'm, I'm the singer and guitar player for Cold Cut, and, I've been playing since about 13.

I think.

Gotcha.

And then let's have you introduce these guys and tell us, you know what they were playing today.

All right, so I'm percussion.

We have, Christian right here and on drums.

He's filling in for actual drummer.

Brian.

We have Steve.

And then, we have Burns right here.

He's playing keyboard as well.

Steve, who is filling in for your actual drummer, but is an actual drummer.

Yes, it's you guys, but yeah.

So let's see, you know, the first songs that you guys played, number one I think was, was the sunshine, sunlight, sunlight I knew or something like that.

And then number two was Autumn, which is one of your guys's newest releases.

Tell me about both of those songs and what inspired them.

Sunlight was very both songs actually.

I had listened.

Well, I had listened to, Marvin Gaye before, but I got really into his album What's Going On?

And that album had a huge influence on both of those songs.

And, we just started playing more soul from there, and.

Yeah, and then sunlight's like a love song.

It's a love song about my girlfriend.

And then, Autumn is, it's a song about as you age, noticing that you start to be to see life as, like, dull or become kind of cynical and catching that and then trying to change from that before your time ends.

Okay.

Gotcha.

That's a that's beautifully spoken.

I was going to mention so yesterday I did a little bit of research on your guys's music, specifically autumn.

I also heard sunlight, obviously with everybody else.

And one element that I see integrated heavily into the lyrical content of the music is the integration of just nature elements.

So tell me, what about that?

You know, just since what about nature inspires you and your music?

Or did you even realize that you guys do that for Autumn?

Yeah, for some that I didn't realize too much.

But, autumn, it was intentional.

Just like the way seasons change, you know?

Like fall, kind of represents, like the beginning of the end or change.

And so, that's like the point in time where I guess I could say I was writing that, seeing that I view life as as cynical, I viewed life as cynical, or I was cynical about life, viewing it as though kind of you get used to, being, you know, and then I mentioned, come winter snow comes, which is like, I'm running out of time, you know, winters basically.

That's the end, right?

Yeah.

And, well, it's that 5 p.m., you know, sun, sunlight going away in the winter.

So I can see that.

But you didn't mention changing seasons, something that you guys as a band collectively have changed.

Is your sound most like recently, you went from hard rock to, as you mentioned, soul and blues, what we all just heard, what inspired that transition?

I know you mentioned Marvin Gaye influences, but, how did you get to this point?

So, when we started, me and Lou, we were both super into blues, like Delta blues, Chicago blues, electric blue and stuff like that.

And, we've always incorporated that into our music and, playing like hard rock.

I think it was hard because we couldn't we kind of had like an existential crisis where we couldn't figure out, certain sound and stick to, whether it was like alternative or like more vintage style hard rock.

And then, one day we sat down, we're like, let's pick one thing and one thing I was very inspired by.

And and the rest of us really enjoyed listening to his soul.

And then we we mixed that with some of our blues influences, too.

And, some upcoming songs we have, you'll hear it more the blues, but, yeah, that's, that's kind of how that went to pretty much add on to that, like early on, we were much younger in our early 20s, and during that time our writing process was just like writing what was good.

We didn't have like, all right, were like a soul band.

So let's just try writing like soul music and then like, how am I saying it?

We're mostly into blues a lot.

So every song we wrote, we incorporated blues some way in it.

So like, we just were, you know, in the rehearsal space, jamming, writing songs like, oh, that sounds good.

And I wouldn't even typically be like a bluesy song, but we'll still throw in blues in there, and then we'll write another song.

It's like country or there'll be more swingy or whatever until we finally, like, decided, like your music's kind of all over the place.

Let's stick to something that's going to be for certain.

That's like, you know, same sounding in a way, like a type of genre.

Gotcha.

Well, you guys made a good choice with your sound.

I was going to mention to, you know, this is for Corey and Lou specifically.

Pretty amazing.

I know you mentioned Marvin Gaye is one of your influences.

Who are some of your guys's influences?

My influences, I would say along the lines of like Marvin Gaye and as well would be Al Green, Curtis Mayfield.

I like him a lot.

Also like some other artists, not many people know, like Bobby, herb and then also, a couple of other songwriters I kind of can't think of any better than I, Larry Graham, he's a big influence on mine as well.

He's more on like, the funk side, but he still incorporates a lot of like, soul and like uplifting, like soulful songs, you know, funk types that his songs.

And for me, I'm like kind of the odd one out.

I listen to a lot of like, game soundtracks, like one of the first soundtracks I fell in love with was Kirby Kirby's Avalanche, technically, which is a spin off game.

Other than that, like Erica Badu also, and, some Japanese and Korean artists like nasty and, and, there's a lot, but I don't know.

So just to kind of, you know, loosen things up or lighten All right.

things up a little bit, who are some of your guilty pleasure artists?

What's one that people might not think you enjoy their music.

That's or who whichever of you guys has an answer.

That's something I got.

I got to really think about that one.

I, I like where I start, who who is who is one person or just if one of you guys have an answer, what about you, Christian?

Anything.

Guilty pleasures.

I'll say first myself, Fergie.

Fergie.

Honestly, I know I love cheesy, one of the bands I grew up listening to and I did honestly like a lot, big Time Rush.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, I didn't know there were.

I don't know, that were cheesy.

No, I'm definitely a little bit of, like, a good, like a, like a good deep pleasure for sure.

You guys are cool.

That is awesome.

That's funny.

I appreciate you sharing that.

So I kind of want to discuss your guys's live shows.

And, you know, you guys have a great sound.

And so I know you guys have performed all over the Inland Empire, all over Southern California, to be exact.

But what what's your favorite thing about performing live?

The energy.

Yeah, we actually we get from the crowd.

Yeah.

All of that.

Yeah.

I think we very much feed off of that.

Like we see the crowd go, like moving to our music and that makes us move like it really inspires us as we're up there to gotcha.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

I'm sure you guys have had a lot of, you know, interesting moments while performing live and on stage.

I think before we started shooting, Lou, you mentioned that you had an incident on stage once where you, you ended up having a ton of blood on your face.

Trust me, guys, it's it's PG.

Yeah, but can you explain what happened to you in that moment?

That one, it was pretty much after, Covid, like around early 2021 or later, Yeah.

2021, like a year in the year when stuff was kind of opening up again to do shows.

So a lot of venues at the time and like bars, they weren't really having live acts, but a lot of like house shows were so like they were like the do it yourself type shows.

So a buddy of ours actually hit us up and it was like almost like one of our shows kind of back, like our first ones.

And during the set, like home, where we were feeding from the crowd, I was really into at that time, we were still playing like, you know, a little bit on like the heavy rock side.

So I was just like, you know, rocking out the symbol on the drum set that like this looking thing.

It was laid flat.

My drummer wasn't playing it at the time.

And during one of the songs I was gonna, like, hit it with my head, you know, for like, showmanship.

And I timed it wrong.

So when I went to hit it with my head, he hit it and instead of being flat, it tilted.

So I hit like the 10th part.

As soon as I hit it, my head just started gushing blood and stuff.

I looked at him and at first I was just like, what is this?

I saw blood, I saw him, I was like, no, no, keep going.

So he kept going.

I just took my shirt.

I was this shirt actually.

Two, I don't know, there's so many good on and I was good, but, yeah, I just took the shirt off and, and wrap my head and we just kept the show going and and so that's crazy.

You brought out the real life theatrics to that, that show too.

I ended up smashing my keyboard.

Not just because, you know, I smashed it with purpose.

I was already like, kind of like messed up.

There was things that weren't working.

So that was already pre-planned before I did it.

But just the fact that I ended up busting my head on accident and then busted a keyboard the whole show with this.

Yeah, that was one you obviously survived.

And so was it a good show?

It's a good one.

Yeah, that was the next one.

Oh, yeah, it was.

And then also Elmore for being a trooper, he took me to the hospital and waited in the parking lot for four hours.

Well I got staples on my him, so like weeks, weeks of like a full on, you know, basically a headband and stuff.

so that was a Yeah, man.

So something that I had mentioned, you know, Okay.

not everybody is musically inclined, like all of you guys here.

So what is the difference?

I see and hear a lot of times people from the general public mixing up bass and guitar.

Can one of you guys define what that difference is?

What the sound difference is?

Take it away.

Bass has four strings and guitar has six, and, bass typically, keeps rhythm with the drummer, while the guitar plays more intricate stuff.

Or the bass can also be intricate.

But, yeah, it's just mostly like a, like, kind of percussive instrument, I would say.

Holding time and rhythm, holding the whole foundation of the band together Yeah.

along with the drums.

Gotcha.

And have you always played bass?

What do you do?

Oh, good.

Yeah.

I just expose how dumb I think.

I'm sorry.

Not apologies.

So, guitar, have you always stuck to guitar or was it.

Do you kind of go back and forth?

I've.

I've played bass a few times.

One of our older, rock songs, I switch with him.

He plays guitar and I play bass.

Yeah, but mostly for the most part.

Stick to guitar.

Gotcha, gotcha.

Is that is because I remember you mentioned you wanted him to speak and say.

Okay.

Is that how you would have explained it?

Yeah.

Pretty much.

Yeah.

Just, the bass and like the drums, that's like the main driving point.

Like how you say it, the bass could still be very melodic, and you could still play like a lot of good, like, tunes that the guitar emulates.

But primarily the bass.

It's more to hold the song and the foundation of it keep it strong that way, the keyboard and especially guitar and vocals, that's where as like the spices and the seasoning and everything to it.

So let's take a second to kind of like dive deep into you guys Gotcha.

as a group in terms of, you know, your working relationship.

Which of you guys is typically the most laid back and who is the most anxiety driven, would you guys say with, I know you guys mentioned the drummer Brian is not here today, but out of you for who who's falls into those categories?

I think we're all pretty much driven.

Yeah, we all like we're all always like, hey, did you, see this message we got?

And, yeah, we're always on top of each other.

Like, letting us know, like, if we have something coming up.

Corey is the most organized.

Yeah.

Very organized.

Notes, everything.

He writes everything down.

Yeah.

Keeps us very organized.

And then me and Lou, well, all three of us, very much, very much keeping, I guess, like we're we're all.

We all work the same amount.

Yeah.

And if one of us starts to kind of like, you know, chill back and go back and lazy and stuff, the other members will be like, come on.

Yeah, get on it.

Gotcha.

Well, guys, thank you so much for stopping by.

Where can we find and learn more about you guys and your music?

Oh, you guys can follow us on Instagram @coldcut_ And then all of our music is, on every streaming platform.

You can find them on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube music, you name it, tell them they are telling the truth because I found it there this morning.

So guys, thank you so much.

You guys have one more song for us.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, everybody watching.

Thank you so much for tuning into Rhythm Lounge.

There's more from Cold Cut.

This one's going to be a cover by Al Green.

Alright This one's called Love and Happiness.

Love and happiness Something that can make you do wrong Make you do right Yeah Love Love and happiness Something's going wrong Someone's on the phone Three o'clock in the morning Talking 'bout how she can make it right, yea Happiness is when you feel good about somebody There's nothing wrong, being in love with someone Yeah Oh, babe Love and happiness Yeah Love and happiness Love and happiness Love and happiness You be good to me and I'll be good to you We'll be together We'll see each other walk away with victory, yeah Love and happiness Love and happiness yeah, yeah, yeah Make you do wrong Make you do right Power of love Tell me, about the power Power of love Power The power Make me, make me, wanna dance Make me wanna dance.

Love and happiness Loving Loving Play on All for love, say I'm all for love, say I'm all for love, say I'm all for love, yeah Love and happiness Love and happiness Love and happiness Love and happiness