Paris Is Burning

IN 2006, WHEN YouTube was still young, Laura Cox made a name for herself as one of the few female guitarists posting videos of her performances on the site. Her channel now has hundreds of thousands of subscribers and a library of videos that have been viewed millions of times. She has something else too: a band of her own, which has just released its second album, Burning Bright (earMusic), the follow-up to its 2017 release, Hard Blues Shot. On it, Cox combines uptempo riffs and twanging blues-rock for a sound that’s like the Flying Burrito Brothers filtered through one part Joan Jett and one part southern hard rock.

Cox and her band cut at ICP Studios in Belgium. The album was mastered by Howie Weinberg, an industry veteran whose résumé,” Cox says. “We were really flattered to work with him. He put a nice touch on our music, and that’s what we wanted. It’s perfect.”