Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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This week’s Off-Ramp song of the week is “I Want Love” by the Los Angeles band Babes.
https://soundcloud.com/babesband/i-want-love
Babes is a family band: three of the members — Aaron, Zach and Sarah Rayne Leigh — are siblings. And two others — Jeffrey Baird and Bryan Harris — are cousins.
I Want Love is off Babes’ new album "Untitled (Five Tears)," released last month on Barsuk records. The band recorded "Untitled" in a mobile recording rig in locations all over Los Angeles.
Want to see them live? Babes play the Bootleg Bar on Friday, November 20. There's also a great — somewhat NSFW – music video for "I Want Love," directed by Doug Lussenhop, featured previously on KPCC's The Frame.