Las Vegas – In a discount music bin in her hometown of Stevenage, a town and borough of Hertfordshire, England, a young Charlotte Aitchison nabs a punk rock mixtape. A Vibrators song, “Feel Alright,” immediately grabs a hold of her. It was the energy. Peppy and raw. The compilation was played obsessively, but before long
Los Angeles – Sitting around a pizza joint on the Sunset Strip, The Last Internationale—comprised of Edgey, Delila Paz and Fernando Silva—talk blues, the end of capitalism, music today and making their next album with Brendan Benson. Katie Booth: Where do you get ‘New York, I Do Mind Dying’ and what does that mean? Delila
Los Angeles – The new band Skaters, from New York City, actually doesn’t skate. “We’re musicians first and we don’t [want] to break our wrists,” lead singer Michael Ian Cummings told a Boston music blog earlier this year. “We chose the name because it reminded us of our youth.” Sitting around a little end table
Chicago – L.A. surf punk band and partying aficionados FIDLAR (Short for: “Fuck It Dog, Life’s A Risk”) are having a pretty busy year for four guys known for their slacker odes of “Cheap Beer” and “Cocaine”. After releasing their self titled label debut in January, FIDLAR (Zac Carper/Guitar & Vocals, Brandon Schwartzel/Bass, Elvis Kuehn/Guitar
Nashville – K Ishibashi has been playing the indie music circuit for a while now, opening for Regina Spektor and collaborating with the members in Of Montreal and Jupiter One. It wasn’t until the 2011 release of his debut album 151a that K’s creative genius was put on full display. Kishi Bashi quickly became a
Nashville – Jordie Lane looks a bit like Gram Parsons, writes songs a bit like Townes Van Zandt, and sounds a bit like Bob Dylan circa Nashville Skyline. To throw a wrench in that mix of American musical wonder, Jordie Lane is an Aussie. Although born and raised in Melbourne, Jordie took a liking to
“A Brazilian, a Frenchman, a Canadian, & an American walk into a bar…” This isn’t the intro to a terrible ethnic joke, but the Twitter caption, and essentially the story behind up and coming pop-rockers Saints of Valory, now hailing from Austin, Texas. Their roots originated when lead vocalist and bassist Gavin Jasper befriended guitarist
We’ve done quite a bit of coverage on Grouplove the past couple years, and by now the story of the band’s magical beginnings has been marveled at everywhere someone has come across this lovable and energetic group of people that seem to have met so serendipitously. Hannah Hooper, Christian Zucconi, Ryan Rabin, Andrew Wessen, and
Aly Spaltro is unassuming and disarmingly sweet. She reads Stephen King short stories. She likes donuts and The Supremes’ music. Meeting her feels like making a new friend, if you happen to hang around burgeoning creative types who go by alternative names. Aly Spaltro is better known by her moniker, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. Although
It’s been quite a 2013 for Local Natives. After a shuffle in the band lineup and the untimely death of band member Kelcey Ayer’s mother, they regrouped and kicked off the year with their solemn and stunning sophomore effort “Hummingbird”, an album that almost cracked the Billboard Top 10 albums on its opening week, immensely