Javelin is Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford, two cousins from Providence, RI who began playing music together in 2004. But unlike many of the mash-up artists of the mid-2000s of which they are often compared, Javelin’s sonic collage of samples are re-assembled and recorded with live instruments—thumb pianos, drums, wooden recorders and anything else they could get their hands on. Javelin’s newest effort, Hi Beams, finds the duo stepping away from MPCs towards more traditional instrumentation, while retaining the…

I’ve always kind of imagined the members of Fol Chen writing songs the way scientists would conduct experiments in a laboratory, with beakers and Petri dishes and controlled explosions and all that. After speaking with guitarist Samuel Bing and Vocalist Sinosa Loa for 20 minutes while waiting for a round of hot toddies, I learned all kinds of things about Fol Chen, from how they created a tetrahedron musical etch-a-sketch to how they made three songs car crash into one to…

  Eric James and Mason Ingram define their musical genre as “Urban Walking Music,” on their Facebook page, but the Brooklyn jokesters have a lot more to offer than just tunes for mulling around the city. The singer/producer and drummer began playing music together in the beginning of 2010 and early this year released their first LP, Twistification, under the moniker “The Last Royals”. Since then, the anthemic indie duo won over crowds at this year’s SXSW and is gearing up…

If the guys in Audacity know one thing, it’s how to have fun. The Orange County bred punk rockers have been playing music together since Elementary school, and though they have grown up since then, they still focus on having a good time, and it’s worked out in their favor. The quartet is gearing up for a month-long tour with the legendary Man Or Astro-Man?, including a show at L.A.’s The Satellite on Friday, May 10, before playing dates with…