Lauren Hoffman is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has written and released 5 genre-defying albums plus several EPs and singles in the US and Europe. She has worked with notable producers David Lowery and Ethan Johns, and labels Virgin, Kill Rock Stars, PIAS (EU) and Fargo (France). Lauren’s songs have been used in film and TV such as Homicide: Life On The Street, South of Nowhere, and the Woody Harrelson noire film Palmetto. Her song ‘Broken’ enjoys heavy rotation on Pandora radio, spawning YouTube covers, fan videos, and quotations on Twitter: “You’re a little bit damaged / I’m a sucker for that”. Lauren Hoffman recently relocated to Los Angeles and her 6th album, Mercury Girls, is due out in 2019.

“With her low-key voice, lonely guitar lines, insinuating phrasing, oddball rhythmic hooks and casually brutal put-downs, Ms. Hoffman makes moody and sexy pop songs.” - Ben Ratliff, New York Times

“The new album (From The Blue House), produced with elegant simplicity by Hoffman with an assist by Brian Kehew, shows off her lyrical bite to splendid effect… the vocalist shines on such striking tracks as “Heavy Scene”, “Rare New Disease”, “Song For A Boy”, and “Whoever You Are” - Billboard.

“After her beautiful album From The Blue House from 1999, the young American singer Lauren Hoffman chose to retreat a little. Those few years of reflection and doubts allowed her to give birth to Choreography, a work of perfect coherence; a lovely union of pop, folk and rock.” FiP Radio France (translated)

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I loved seeing the #goddamncomedyjam at the Roxy tonight! - for one thing I am now woke to the existence of bassist @talmeastory Tal Wilkenfeld and wow she crushed it!— also awesome to finally see @marcmaron live and he sounded great on guitar - does this proximity put me one step closer to my dream of being interviewed on the @wtfpodcastnetwork #wtfpodcast ?? No, no it doesn’t 😄 Thank you to Nick @libatwa for the invite! @elemenopymusic rocked it all night and I loved the mash up of comedy and rock. 💜
My #StreamingSongOfTheMoment is an early arrangement of ‘Joshua’ -a song from my 3rd album, Choreography. I call it the ‘Roller Rink Version’, because the bells and stabby organ hits evoke, for me, a slow skate through the swirling multi-colored lights of my childhood roller rink... 🎧 Listen at laurenhoffman.com In the end, we (John Morand, Alan Weatherhead and I) went for a smoother, piano-and-strings arrangement of Joshua for the album (with gorgeous flugelhorn by the-one-and-only John D’earth), but some Choreography fans might find this a fun peek into the evolution of the song! … Maybe next I will go a step further into the past and stream the live version I did with my pre-Choreography band, The Lilas… #recording #studio #laurenhoffman #rollerrink #workinprogress #newmusic #behindthemusic 😏
Hear my new "Streaming Song Of The Moment" 🎧 now at laurenhoffman.com - ‘Chelsea Hotel’ by Leonard Cohen, solo performance for OUIFM radio, France 2006. This picture was taken on the streets of Paris around the same time. #ouifm @ouifm #paris #france #coversong #singer #leonardcohen #chelseahotel #laurenhoffman #telecaster #meloncholy #music #portraitphotography
OMG @thegarybusey and @ocasio2018 what are they talking about?? #revolución
“I always feel like somebody’s watching me” #Rockwell #1984 @papillonbakery
Valentines' Day Heartbreak Special Song Streaming Today Only at LaurenHoffman (dot) com 🔥🎹💔 with trumpet by John D'earth, bass by Mark Graham, drums by Michael Taylor, vox/piano/mellotron/written by me. recorded by Mark Graham, and mixed by @rjfreeland photo by @johnny_saint_ours Note: there is no guitar on this song 😄 #heartbreak #valentinesday #onedayonly #freesong #newsong #singer #guildguitars
Man I’m tired. Life has been little extra lately. Anyway, I liked what Drake said at the Grammys: “All my peers that make music from their heart, that do things pure and tell the truth, I wanna let you know, we play in an opinion-based sport, not a factual-based sport. It's not the NBA where at the end of the year, you're holding a trophy because you made the right decisions or won games.... The point is, you've already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word. If you are a hero in your hometown, if there's people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows, you don't need this right here," he said of his Grammy trophy. "I promise you, you already won."
Conflicted introvert needs to get out and play more shows / Conflicted introvert gets anxious, doesn’t reach out, wishes someone would just tell her where to show up and play / Conflicted introvert performs for the cat 🐈 #martinguitars #laurenhoffman #songwriter #style #laurelcanyon #LA #lesigh #introvertproblems #notagogetter #anthro #allsaints
#cove #chillin #california #beach #bouldering #happyplace