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"  Photo: Christina Mendenhall  While Hollywood, California may be home to starlets and big-name producers, Hollywood, Florida boasts senior citizens and nostalgic rockers. Or at least, they&amp;#039;ve got Beach Day, a newly formed trio whose sunny melodies and throwback guitar riffs are inspired, in part, by the old-school diners and retro buildings that dot their small, beachside city. &amp;quot;Hollywood is full of the way-older generation\u2014it&amp;#039;s kind of like a &amp;#039;50s time warp. Living amongst older folks and &amp;#039;50s architecture influenced our music in a way that&amp;#039;s hard to describe,&amp;quot; explains singer and guitarist Kimmy Drake, adding, &amp;quot;[Our music] is kind of nostalgic and longing for a different, simpler time\u2014that might be the connection.&amp;quot; But while the music she makes, along with bassist Natalie Smallish and drummer Skyler Black, may tip its hat to the past\u2014in particular, &amp;#039;60s girl groups, which is what initially brought them together\u2014it&amp;#039;s hardly derivative. While The Shirelles worried if their man would still love them tomorrow, the band amps up the sound and speeds up the beat so even tracks like &amp;quot;Boys&amp;quot; hardly sound like lovelorn laments. &amp;quot;Our music is all about having a good time\u2014it&amp;#039;s really danceable. We don&amp;#039;t really play depressing songs,&amp;quot; Drake admits, noting that the band&amp;#039;s self-titled debut 7-inch record, out this month, &amp;quot;really puts you in a good mood.&amp;quot;  You would be in a good mood, too, if you spent your days by the ocean, as the band does when they&amp;#039;re not touring (which they are through August). &amp;quot;We live about two minutes away from the Hollywood Beach. We love swimming and laying [out],&amp;quot; says the dulcet-voiced singer. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a great place to re-energize.&amp;quot; No surprise that they named their band after the ultimate warm weather activity, but Drake admits that if you want to find them, don&amp;#039;t go looking during the day. She notes, &amp;quot;Going to the beach really late at night is the best! Like, 3 a.m., when it&amp;#039;s deserted and magical. There&amp;#039;s something so unreal about the ocean.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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