Maria McKee

Candid and passionate, Maria McKee has had an awakening. Her new album La Vita Nuova unpacks this, sketching out a momentous and transformative time in her life that started decades ago when she sang in her living room by the fire with her older brother: the late, great musical innovator Bryan MacLean, co-founder of the seminal LA band LOVE. Along the way she reimagined punk and country as the lead singer of pioneering Americana band Lone Justice, released a string of evocative and eclectic solo records, wrote chart topping hits and inspired the devotion of a loyal cultish fan base before seemingly disappearing.

It’s been thirteen years since her last studio album Late December which was released in 2007. During that time McKee has been working alongside her husband auteur, Jim Akin, co-producing, scoring and working as an ensemble cast member in his critically lauded independent films.