John Gold, BeatFlashers

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter John Gold crafts breezy, nuanced, indie pop gems that suggest a long, steady diet of West coast classic rock like Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, and Harry Nilsson, as well as a penchant for the literate, indie folk musings of contemporaries like Josh Ritter, Rufus Wainwright, and M. Ward. Gold, who did a brief stint in New York City before settling in to the Hollywood apartment that would become his songwriting haven for almost a decade, released his independent debut, These Are Color Days, in 2002, followed by Eastside Shake in 2004....