Ghost Beach was a New York-based live electronic music duo of Josh Ocean LaViolette[1] (vocals, bass, synths) and Eric “Doc” Mendelsohn (guitars, synths, MPC sampler).
Their sound was self-described as "Tropical Grit Pop”[2] and was influenced by Peter Gabriel, The Police, Talking Heads, and other popular music of the 1980s.
[5] They have also performed with Imagine Dragons, David Guetta, Vampire Weekend, and Robin Thicke.
[6] In March 2013, Ghost Beach employed a Times Square video billboard to publicly test philosophical questions of music piracy.
For several weeks the billboard displayed the words "progress," "the future," "criminal," "a fad," "our generation," "harmless," freedom," "robbery" and "inevitable" under the words "Piracy is," and asked viewers to take a side by posting their opinions to social media using the hashtags #ArtistsForPiracy or #ArtistsAgainstPiracy.