Mad For Sadness Presents: Gold Star @ Taix Lounge. With Black Mandolin and Charlie Clark January 24, 2013

Gold Star is the solo project of Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Marlon Rabenreither (The Sister Ruby Band).  Gold Star's foray into retrospective melancholy looks through the prism of acoustic American music with an unapologetic vulnerability and an eye towards loss and heartbreak.

Gold Star’s self-titled debut EP - scheduled for release on February 19, 2013 - is an organic collection of songs within a stripped-down sonic environment; it fuses acoustic simplicity and warm harmonies with deconstructed Americana elements and intertwines intricate fingerpicking with ambient organ, wurlitzer and steel guitar, all the while defying the singer-songwriter archetype.