Dani Judith fronts Northern Californian indie dream-pop outfit Rainbow City Park, having been found online by guitarist and founding member Chris O’Keefe. Judith says that she was incredibly nervous during rehearsals but it all came together.
“The music was fantastic," she says. “I could tell that they were great people, and I really wanted to stick around.”
Judith has been performing since third grade, when she entered her elementary school’s talent show. She wrote her first song in eighth grade, and things developed from there.
The frontwoman says that the Rainbow City Park sound has evolved in the two and a half years since forming.
“The entire first year I spent in the group, I was not the lead singer,” Judith says. “We had more of a Cranberries/hop-along sort of sound. As the band evolved and I stepped into the role as the lyrical writer and primary singer, we’ve begun to shape into a more Third Eye Blind-meets-Paramore type sound.”
The band’s latest release is the “Valentine’s Day 1999” single, and all of the members are proud of it with good reason.
“It’s been a part of our set for almost a year prior to the actual release, so our audience was familiar with the tune,” Judith says. “It definitely didn’t come as a surprise to our listeners that “vday99” was the next tune on our rollout."
For an indie band like RCP, “DIY” is a way of life.
“DIY implies that the band is an independently ran musical group,” Judith says. “We definitely aren’t making our music at home in our bedrooms (for the most part), but every other process is done by the hands of the members of the band. Publishing, distribution, marketing, you name it. All of the things you’d never think from an outside perspective would be involved in keeping a band alive.”
Rainbow City Park has another song dropping this year, called “Complicate This.” Starting in October, they’ll be touring with Bay Area band The Moondrops. Keep your eye out.
For more information, visit rainbowcitypark.com.
