Transfer first got on the radar of myself and many others as the opening act for Brandon Flowers, which you can read about HERE. I enjoyed the San Diego rock band very much, but I also a little embarrassed that such an amazing band had eluded me. Fronted by Matthew Molarius on guitar, Jason Cardenas,
Before The Ocean Floor’s show at Rontom’s last week, I got a chance to sit down with them and talk about their projects, their sound and which artists they like the best.
Yesterday I caught up with Madison, who recently released installment one of four of her EP series, The Noise Some People Make. As mentioned before, Madison left her studies of neurology and psychology to pursue her pop ambitions. The coolest thing about Madison is that she is writing, recording and producing her records on her
Following their show at UCLA, I sat down with Lady Danville’s keyboardist Michael Garner to learn a little more about the band. We chatted about their hometown of Danville, California, the goofiness of Ben Folds, celebrity doppelgangers, a particularly inspiring mysterious-hippie-kindergarten teacher, and the ups and downs of going on the road. An amicable and
photo by Jose Mandojana In this special bonus episode of BackStory, Pete from Ivan & Alyosha (our Artists in Residence for February 2011!) tells us the story behind their song “Fathers Be Kind.” “Fathers Be Kind” took about a year to take full shape. I had the verse and melody in my head for a
Tonight Alive are just one of those bands that you don’t want to get, at first listen. Your indie-sensibilities groan at the thought of another Paramore (despite the fact that they’re still your secret guilty pleasure). But the similarities begin and end at the obvious: punk-pop band with a female lead. Not only are they
It used to be that one couldn’t live in the relatively small town of Denton, Texas without having heard of local singer/songwriter Sarah Jaffe. But now, it’s difficult to find a person in the indie music world who hasn’t run across her instantly recognizeable brand of dusky folk in the last year or so. Her
Yeah- I’m not going to lie to you. I was all about the Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn, I did the whole Call and Return thing, I’ve been getting down with Hellogoodbye for a while, so to step into the creative world that spawned so many amazing songs and supplemental music vids was, in a word,
Brad Oberhofer, the eponymous member and mastermind of the indie pop/rock force that is Oberhofer, is twenty years old. This young gun has already made a splash at CMJ and on the Blogosphere; plus, his music is really, really good. We chatted last week just before he departed on his latest tour, and he spilled
In this edition of BackStory, The Joy Formidable shares the lyrics to their song “Austere,” along with the story behind it… A melting pot of different references and ideas line this song marking the beginning of Ritzy and Rhydian’s writing relationship. It’s tonally at odds, sometimes playful and tenacious but also contemplative and melancholic. Thinking