LITTLE HURRICANE

Little Hurricane is a Rock/Dirty blues band based out of San Diego, California. Formed in 2010, the band consists of Front man Anthony "Tone" Catalano and drummer Celeste "C.C." Spina. Their influences include The White Stripes, Dead Weather, Black Keys, Bob Dylan, and B.B King. In August 2009, Chicago-born Spina (a cook and bartender) got back on drums after eight years away from a set and put an ad on craigslist looking for like-minded musicians. Guitarist Anthony “Tone” Catalano (a former MTV/VH1 audio/video engineer) caught her attention when he mentioned his jazz-band days in high school. “I’ve been writing songs for years, looking for drummers,” says Tone (who relocated from Santa Cruz to North Park). “I think it’s unique to have a girl drummer.” “The previous bands I’ve been in were more rock, more produced,” says Tone, who makes custom guitar slides from wine- and whiskey-bottle necks. “Between songs I would play the blues, just jam, and then I’d have to go back to working on the songs. When I met [C.C.], she said she wanted to do a jazz-and-blues thing, and I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll play that, that’d actually be really great.’... The vocals aren’t tuned, not everything is on time, it’s raw, but there’s something very fun about it.” In summer 2010, Tone was working as a sound engineer at Carlsbad’s Le Mobile studio; he has tuned and recorded acts such as Gwen Stefani, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Metallica. “Lately we’ve been trying to tap into the saddest things possible...loneliness and age...lies...home-wreckers,” he says regarding lyrics. “I love the old blues, but I think there’re things we can bring into it that hopefully progresses the genre into the future.” As for touring, “Instead of playing in a town and packing up the next morning, we want to stay in towns, meet people, get to know the culture,” Tone says. “We want to learn from people and take our music different places.” The group was the first band to record a SoundDiego Session. After winning Best New Artist at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards, they went on a four month national tour. Just like a storm on the horizon, little hurricane is a whirlwind of sound who is gaining momentum in the San Diego music scene. Formed in early 2010, little hurricane began when front man Tone, and drummer CC met via Craigslist and have been creating dirty blues together since. Little hurricane’s bluesy soul stems from Santa Cruz, where tone was educated by his musical surroundings, and Chicago, where CC first created her back breaking beats” (Boikdaddy, 2011). “By coincidence, both members lived on the 30th Street in North Park, San Diego. They also found a common interest in unique and vintage equipment and a love of grimy, down and dirty blues. Little Hurricane released their debut album Homewrecker, in April of 2011” AbcGo (2011).