BestNewBands.com Take a pinch of Death Cab for Cutie’s honest but evocative lyrical style. Add a dash of Ben Lee-sounding vocals. Combine with a vintage Tom Petty feel, and mix with a hint of folk-country twang. Sprinkle with a warm sense of community. Your tasty result? Eugene, Oregon’s The Stagger and Sway. With this video,
BestNewBands.com Warning: this is not Sigur Ros. If you refer to Ólafur Arnalds as such, he will probably be offended. Fresh off his one night engagement at the Echoplex in Los Angeles (read the review here), I got to talk with Arnalds about his music and background. Also, I attempted to capture this mind-blowing show
Indie-electronica pop is en vogue and that’s can be partially attributed to the innovative sounds of STRFKR. The Portland, Oregon-based outfit, which formed in 2007, has been one of the standard-bearers for the electro-pop wave that has grown in the years since the band’s beginnings. The band’s latest release, , is the band’s first LP
BestNewBands.com Call me ignorant, but for some reason I don’t usually connect Mobile, Alabama with psychadelia—especially psychedelic rock. However, this might change thanks to The Sunshine Factory. We have before us a dynamic trio somehow creating a simultaneously different and accessible sound, thanks to fuzzy guitars, screaming guitars, and a balance of haunting vocals. I
Pepper Rabbit’s off to quite a busy 2011 so far: after releasing their debut album, Beauregard, late last year, the duo of Xander Singh and Luc Laurent has played a non-stop string of shows with the likes of Passion Pit, Freelance Whales and Miniature Tigers. I recently had the opportunity to interview Xander Singh –
Last night, I made the quick jaunt up to the Covel Grand Ballroom on “The Hill” at UCLA (essentially, the heart of on-campus housing/dorm life/pajama-clad kids sipping coffee at 10 pm and giggling loudly) to see a concert held by student organizations. This charity event concert, called Acoustic Coffee House 2011, featured a bunch of
Over the past few years, the Los Angeles indie rock scene has fortunately began to replace itself in the hearts and minds of music fans who once thought of the city solely as a Mecca for hair metal bands. With the emergence of groups like Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, The Airborne Toxic Event
With the entire West Coast basically a victim to dark, angry, furrowed-browed storm clouds, the release of Foxes in Fiction’s new EP, Alberto couldn’t have been better timed. Dropping this week in the wake of Warren Hildebrand’s (the brain behind Foxes in Fiction) first full-length album, Swung From The Branches, this 7-track EP translated better
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
There are few times in the day when we experience the true feeling of repose. It lasts but a few seconds, between waking up and rubbing the sleep from your eyes (and conversely, between closing your eyes and falling asleep). Pomegranate manages to capture just that – a dreamy, half-conscious state of mind – in