Claire Gallagher

Claire Gallagher

Claire Gallagher is from Las Vegas, Nevada.  She grew up under blinking signs for Girls, Girls, Girls! and she hummed to the clanky sounds of slot machines in casinos and grocery stores and airports.   She now attends school at UCLA and is becoming very intimately acquainted with the kick-ass music scene Los Angeles so sweetly provides. When Claire is not on the back of a horse or playing with her pet snake, Skittles, she is listening to music, eating orange chicken, or spinning around in her rolly chair.  She is fond of tyrannosaurus rexes, John Steinbeck, and the fleeting feeling of post-concert deafness.  You can check her out on tumblr as well.

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An Interview with Country Bred Rockers The Features

Published in Interviews
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 10:55
Allow me to introduce to you your next favorite band: The Features. From small town Tennessee, this band is rife with a country angst, a subconscious punkiness, a little bit of whimsical sentimentality, and a really funny drummer. Signed to Kings of Leon’s record label in 2007 and straight off the making of their third studio album, Wilderness, T...

Thatwasthen and The Hush Rock The Troubadour

Published in Live Reviews
Sunday, 10 July 2011 19:26
This past Saturday night, I saw thatwasthen and The Hush take on the Troubadour again.  I arrived to venue under the impression that The Hush was taking the stage after thatwasthen, but as I walked in The Hush’s lead singer, Jazmine Giovanni, was winding down the set.  However, the two songs that I did catch were easily enough to remind me of the...
If you're in the San Diego area, or maybe escaping the LA doomsday that will ensue with the closing of the formidable 405, head on out to the Tin Can Alehouse on Saturday, July 16th for some awesome live music.  Playing that night is Los Coyotes, Allah-Las (who wowed me when I saw them open for White Denim), and The Cosmic Telegraph Co. If you ma...

Album Review: DIgitalism's "I Love You, Dude"

Published in Album Reviews
Monday, 04 July 2011 11:51
Let me preface this review with this: I know little about electronic music.  I'm working with basically Daft Punk, a little bit of Justice and Deadmau5, Air, and Hot Chip as my main references/points of comparison.  However, I look at this as a good thing because, with electronic music, I either love it and dance my face off to it, or am ent...
Dreamy, Folky, Spooky; Vintage, American, Soulful; Haunting, Uplifting, Inspiring.  These are all very apt words to describe the Nashville duo The Civil Wars and their new album Barton Hollow (February, 2011).  They make me cherish every chill their music brings me, and it's hard to describe how they layer their sweet, warm coffee shop sound with...
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Album Review: Brooklyn trio @TheLoneBellow with "heartfelt storytelling" borne from personal adversity. A treat. http://t.co/FgKx3Uw3AV
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Festival: LA kicks off summer with the Jubilee Music and Arts Fest June 7-8. @jubileemusic http://t.co/0EhxiM9YJ0
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Album Review: Silence Yourself, the "raw, powerful" debut from London's all-girl punk group Savages. @Savagesband http://t.co/CG4z2Xy9vd
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