It’s been a quiet few years for Portland, Oregon-based duo The Helio Sequence. The two-piece, comprised of singer/guitarist Brandon Summers and drummer Benjamin Weikel, have released four studio LPs, the last being 2008’s Keep Your Eyes Ahead. In the four years since the electro-folk-pop outfit’s last album, the guys have kept a low profile, but ...

In music, 11 years is an eternity. Fads come and go and what was yesterday’s hit is today’s washed up band. Beachwood Sparks bucks that trend, proving that as long as there’s good music to be made, people will listen regardless of how long of a gap there is between records. After releasing two albums at the top of the Aughts, the band we...

Last Friday night, Los Angeles’ Silverlake venue, The Satellite, hosted a night of atmospheric dream pop, headlined by singer/songwriter/producer Jason Rober Quever’s ambitious, evocative project, Papercuts.  As soon as the San Francisco-based quartet set foot on stage, the crowd rose to its feet and doubled in size, eager to witness the tight, m...

The Montreal based husband and wife duo of indie electronic rockers Handsome Furs - Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry - made a stop in San Francisco last night. The show at Slims was a part of a tour that is following-up the recent release of their third full length album Sound Kapital (Sub Pop Records). Opening the night up was the ins...