On the surface, the disparate parts of the Southern California quartet the BellRays seem to break down easily. The band, which blends old-school soul and hard rock, gets its soul side from Lisa ...

Lisa Kekaula is a knockout vocalist; her voice has been heard torching songs for the Basement Jaxx (“Good Luck”) and the Crystal Method (“High and Low”), and she perked up ears when her band the ...

I could go on and on in this space, talking about how outrageously underwhelming the BellRays’ Thursday-night show at the Larimer Lounge was. But I won’t. If their latest CD, “Hard, Sweet and Sticky,” ...

The BellRays, featuring husband wife Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula, are a seminal, fiery rock’n’roll band that have criss-crossed the ever-changing country for decades. Unfazed, they remain defiantly ...

In 1965 when a Byrds fan was asked to describe their music, she said, “they’re orange and green and yellow and near” and people actually knew what she meant. Of course you could get away with color ...

Cheap Tricks for Bellrays: Bob Vennum of rock & soulers the Bellrays told us about his love for a Cheap Trick gem. The next year they put out Live at Budakon and then I got it. I don’t think I put my ...

Now that the success of The Hives has rescued Alan McGee's Poptones label from a premature death, the man who discovered Oasis is free to indulge himself again with some more offbeat signings. So time ...

Don’t bother asking Lisa Kekaula and Bob Vennum about the “return of rock and roll” currently celebrated by the mainstream music press. The married co-founders of the Bellrays will inform you that you ...

God bless the BellRays, for they know what it means to rock. No, not “rock” in the same way as those bands slugging it out every weekend who think they rock because they have lots of tattoos, but in ...

If soul is the teacher and punk is the preacher, the BellRays are working a double shift. Combining Detroit’s twin musical heritages, Motown and garage rock, the Riverside, California, foursome ...