The Hold Outs, The Beautiful Losers, Essence, Billy Schafer

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“And so it all began….I locked my bedroom door. I wasn’t lifting weights; I was growing out my ‘stache and learning some chords.”

You can’t help but love the Hold Outs, because they tend to bring back some of your fondest memories. With songs like Confident Mustache, and Big Screen TV, they remind you of those awkward years, when you couldn’t get the girl and you didn’t have a car, but man did you have a great time. Growing up with influences like Alice in Chains, the Cars, Metallica, and classic rock, The Hold Outs play their hearts out, rocking soulful harmonies of boy-meets-girl, girl-disses-boy, boy-still-loves-girl-and-is-all-torn-up-about-it. Walk by the Fourth Street Tavern in San Rafael on a Saturday night, and you might see a row of hot chicks shaking it in sexy heels and stick-on mustaches, waving their drinks in the air as they sing along to ‘My Best Friends Girl.’ Maybe it’s the shredding guitar solos, maybe it’s the contagious energy of the band, or maybe it’s all that whisky and beer; but crowds at the Hold Outs shows always seem to be having a great time.

Mark Antonio, Bart Hacker, and Kalyan Godden have been friends since high school, and even played in a band together back then. They’ve come a long way since those days, and The Hold Outs got their official start in late 2006, when guitarists/vocalists Mark Antonio and Bart Hacker started an acoustic duo and wrote a few new songs together. Before you knew it, they had lured in Kalyan and his bass guitar, and Benjamin Trumbo on drums. They plugged in together for the first time in February 2008, and have been taking over the local music scene in Marin County ever since. Check outour websiteThe Hold OutsCheck outour websiteThe Hold Outs