Ghost Beach was an American live

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duo consisting of Josh Ocean LaViolette (vocals, bass, synths) and Eric "Doc" Mendelsohn (guitars, synths, MPC sampler) based in

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. Their sound was self-described as "tropical grit-pop" and was influenced by

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, and other popular music of the 1980s. The name Ghost Beach was taken from the popular children's book series ''

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''. The band's debut album, ''Blonde'', was released on

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on March 4, 2014. The album contains new material, as well as tracks from the band's self-released EPs. Blonde was produced by Nic Hard and Dave Weingarten. Blonde was mixed by Nic Hard. Ghost Beach played at the South by Southwest Music Festival 2014. They also performed with

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, and

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Artists vs. Artists

In March 2013, Ghost Beach employed a Times Square video billboard to publicly test philosophical questions of music piracy. For several weeks the billboard displayed the words "progress", "the future", "criminal", "a fad", "our generation", "harmless", freedom", "robbery" and "inevitable" under the words "Piracy is", and asked viewers to take a side by posting their opinions to social media using the hashtags #ArtistsForPiracy or #ArtistsAgainstPiracy. A related website aggregated public opinion. The campaign was carried out by

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in conjunction with

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, who paid for the use of the billboard.

Discography

LPs * ''Blonde'' (2014) EPs * ''Modern Tongues'' (2013) * ''Modern Tongues Remixed'' (2013) * ''Miracle'' (2013)

References

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