Photo by Mark Baldi The first full length from 19-year-old Dylan Baldi from Cleveland, OH under the name Cloud Nothings is what helped me wake up for a few weeks straight. The scratchy fuzzy lo-fi power pop full of messy layers and catchy melodies temporarily replaced caffeine for me. It’s a nice throwback to simple
The boys of San Diego’s Range Rover took a moment out of their time working on their debut album to answer some of my burning questions about their eclectic sound, their multi-layered tracks and their musical process. Also in this post: A new song, “There’s Nothing For Me Here” for your listening enjoyment. Look for
The gentlemen of Bethpage Black know the drama that comes with being in a heavy rock band. Just glancing at the emo aesthetics of My Chemical Romance or The Used, you will soon pick up on the themes of exorbitance, emotiveness, and melodrama (and often the use of the colors white, black and red) in
Van Go Lion, an exciting electropop duo from Portland, are in the process of recording their first full length album. Amy Paige and Josh Loerzel met a couple years back when Amy put an ad on Craigslist looking for a band to sing with. Pure pop perfection was born when Amy and Josh met, and
In the wake of their etherial set at UCLA, I got to catch up with Dominant Legs in a particularly collegiate courtyard outside of UCLA’s Kerckhoff Grand Salon. They were a curious pair to see. Ryan Lynch, the guitarist, is jockey-like in stature–short and small–but with a striking bone structure and big eyes that give
It has been a busy year for The Henry Clay People. Like the great compromiser, the Los Angeles-based outfit has seen years of hard work pay off in 2010. With the release of its album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast, in addition to touring with Silversun Pickups, Against Me! and Drive-By Truckers, the band is
2010 has been a successful year for School of Seven Bells. The band released its sophomore effort, Disconnect From Desire, on July 13 on Vagrant Records/Ghostly International in the U.S. The band consists of Benjamin Curtis and identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza. With a sound that has been described by some as dreamy and
With an album cover that has a on-coming shark about to attack an office building, Black Mountain is saying you better be ready for its next album, which is slated to be released on September 14. The Canadian quartet’s third release, released on Jagjaguwar, is different than it’s earlier material and like the album’s cover,
Pepper managed to turn the entire Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, California yesterday into an island-infused land of plenty. The beachy-keen boys rocked a reggae vibe, serenading the crowd with sun-soaked songs, dressed in SPF and not much else. True to the Hawaiian tropic form, I was ushered to a backstage bus-side BBQ complete with
We caught up with singer/songwriter, Kathryn Ostenberg after her recent show at Room 5 in Los Angeles, and we liked her so much that we asked her to stick around– and she’s going to! Kathryn’s been playing the Hotel Cafe, Room 5, and other venues in LA. She’ll be making her first appearance at SXSW