From various parts of the country (L.A., SF and New England) come three talented musicians who have formed a powerful Rock group and that group is HDR. The power Rock trio has been getting rave reviews from people like Johnny Knoxville, Jim Adkins and Zach Lind of Jimmy Eat World or their straight up Rock music. HDR has just released an EP entitled, Make a Wish. The Enhanced CD also comes with the video for their song Thailand.

The first time I listened to Make a Wish, the first thing that came to mind was, “holy s***”, this group rocks!” I saw them perform at a wrap party for the MTV show Wildboyz with Swedish rockers Turbonegro and Echo Park’s favorite band, Cakecutter. The band has some music that will be heard on an upcoming episode of Wildboyz (look for Steve-O flying a Soviet MiG). Aside from being one of the best shows I had seen all year, I thought HDR had a great sound. So I stole their CD from out of my friend Maritza’s hands and took it home. I have been listening to it ever since.

HDR is made up of Joe Mora on lead vocals and guitar, Amy Tung on bass and Johnny Lord on sticks. Mora is the Southern California native who is also happens to be a great bass player. Drummer Johnny Lord came from Enfield, Connecticut all the way out to Hollywood, California. Bassist and singer, Amy Tung comes to Los Angeles by way of Taipei, Memphis and finally San Francisco. In addition to the Bass, Amy is a classically trained Pianist and Flutist (or Flautist).

Joe and Amy met at a Rock club in Los Angeles called formerly called The Garage (now, Little Temple). Amy says, “Johnny got thrown in to the mix because he was one of the few people that wasn’t scared to start a band with the two if us.” Individually the members are influenced by early Van Halen (Johnny), ZZ Top (Joe) and Bach (Amy). By doing some vile and unmentionable “personal favors” for Rick Kosick, (photographer and cameraman on MTV’s Jackass) the band found their music featured on Wildboyz.

The EP Make a Wish combines hard Rock with good vocals, clean drums and smoking bass. The lead song on Make a Wish, Thailand gets the blood rushing as soon as it you hear it. My personal favorite is Muse, the tale of a plaid wearing hard drinking woman who was “so worth it”.

HDR plans to go on tour soon, possibly in England or Australia. The main focus of their touring will be in California due to its reinvigorated music scene.

I asked the band what is the best way to get their album and they said to go to their website 4hdr.com or just go to one of their shows. Words are not really going to do their music justice, so watch their videos (see links below), go see them on tour and then go get their album, Make a Wish.