Paul B. Cutler

A longtime figure on the underground music scene in Los Angeles, Paul B. Cutler spent decades as a musician, songwriter, and producer before he belatedly launched his solo career in 2023. As a guitarist, his skills have been adaptable to hard-edged punk, proto-goth death rock, and one of college rock's most memorable guitar bands (the Dream Syndicate,) and as a producer, he's also shown he's fluent in psychedelia, roots music, and garage rock. Nearly all of these influences were audible in some way on Cutler's ambitious and stylistically diverse solo debut, 2023's Les Fleurs. ...