Hana: It kind of depends on what I’m listening to in the moment. Who are your inspirations when writing music?
I think it’s cool to see more people to come out as successful.
And I think now people are starting to pay more attention to people of color and women of color. Hana: I think it’s cool! I think that it’s harder for any person of color to make it in any sort of indie capacity. How is the experience of being one of the few Asian-American people representing the demographic? What’s it like being an Asian-American woman in the music industry? When you get down to it, the indie-pop scene is very white-centered in a lot of different ways. You know, it’s the game - the entertainment game. But I think a lot of musicians that are coming out now are really young. People have strong opinions either which way, like if I’m deserving or not deserving, what have you. Hana: It’s sort of like the art is a part of the artist, so my age influences my music. How do you think your age influences people’s perceptions of you in the music industry? Hana: It just seems like little hippies live there! And they make stained glass art! Sebastian: It’s like a middle of nowhere vibe where you can just chill out. It’s a nice, quaint, little place and there’s like … lots of ice cream. It’s not one of those big city glam towns. Hana: But it’s also one of those vacation destinations. That’s so interesting because you’re from LA … We learned a lot and saw most of America. We went on a cross-country tour with SALES for the month of September, and we’ve never been on tour before, so it was a good experience. Hana: Yeah, we opened for Soccer Mommy in March, and that was really fun. You’ve written your EP, How Many Times Have You Driven By, released it and have been touring with SALES and Soccer Mommy in the past year. I caught up with her and her bandmates Chris, Jair, and Sebastian before their show at UT to get their experiences in the industry thus far. This up-and coming indie rock artist has already worked with Willow Smith and opened for Soccer Mommy and SALES in support of her new EP, How Many Times Have You Driven By. Early coverage came from Pitchfork, NME, and The Fader, the latter playfully declaring, “the seventeen-year-old is cooler than you and me.” Public Storage marked her first release with Ghostly and her first time working with a co-producer, Jackson Phillips (Day Wave).At the beginning of her hit song “426”, Hana (pronounced h-ahn-ah) Vu exclaims, “They always get my name wrong,” –– but that won’t be happening for long. Bear, who released Vu’s self-produced debut EP, How Many Times Have You Driven By. Her 2018 single “Crying on the Subway” caught the ear of Gorilla vs.
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Her sound-brooding, melodic pop driven by guitar and Vu’s distinctive contralto-developed across a series of self-releases, including a low-key Willow Smith collaboration and covers of The Cure and Phil Collins. In 2014, at age 14, she started keeping a journal of bedroom pop experiments on Bandcamp. But what I was listening to at that time was very different from what I performed.” As a live performer, Vu has supported the likes of Soccer Mommy, Sales, Nilufer Yanya, Wet, Kilo Kish, and Phantogram. She remembers, “A lot of my peer musicians were surf rock/punk type bands and so I tried to fit into that when I was gigging around. Later in high school, she found the local DIY scene. She’d wake up every day and listen to L.A.’s ALT 98.7, home to 1990s and 2000s alternative rock. Vu’s relationship with music began when she picked up a her dad’s guitar and taught herself to play. In 2021, she signed to Ghostly International and released her full-length debut, Public Storage, followed by the EP Parking Lot in 2022. Hana Vu writes pop songs from her bedroom in Los Angeles. July 28 with KCRW DJs Dan Wilcox & Valida
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