Los Angeles – There’s a fluid element to Skaters live show. They play really close together, even on a larger stage, and they move around each other in an accidental, random fashion. You expect it to run afoul… But it doesn’t. And then there’s the kissing. The band from New York started their show in
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
There was a good deal of diversity in the music we covered this past week, from both brand new artists and artists we were checking back with. Over on the west coast in Los Angeles, Katrina experienced the “bone-chilling, gothic-tinged electronic music” of Soft Metals. In NYC, I rocked out to Skaters (shown above), Drowners,
Skaters are those kids that crotchety old men like to shake their fist at and yell, “You PUNKS!” Or at least that’s how they look on stage. They sound like it too sometimes, but their version of punk is a melodic garage variation that pulls from bands like Mission of Burma, Devo, The Cars, and