Don’t mess with Texas’s Strange Boys: some Austinite Nietzsche reading lo-fi punk-rockers, who just released their first major record, The Strange Boys and Girls Club. The Sambol brothers (Ryan, guitar/lead vocals, writes all the songs and his elder, Phillip, bass)…
Vampire Hands’ 'Me & You Cherry Red / Cuz It’s a Beach Funeral' combine numerous recent trends: the ever popular noise of Wavves, the psychedelia of White Magic and Sun Araw, and the garage rock of Black Lips and the…
Julie Doiron has made an excellent career for herself playing folky, distorted, almost-expansive dreampunk. She started her career as the bassist/vocalist of Eric's Trip, one of the first Canadian lo-fi bands to make it big stateside; she's collaborated with Phil…
Tarentel, a San Francisco electro-percussive threesome, is out with Live Edits from a 2005 tour of Italy and Switzerland. The belated compilation of sensate drone sounds vibrates, gyrates, and oh my-rates as one my favorite psychedelelectric albums this year. The…
It took me two listens to shimmy my way into Dearland- a rich, heartbreaking New Orleanian funeral procession-inspired record- the 2nd “second-line” album of Elvis Perkins. He plays seamlessly and tautly with his three versatile band-mates who pick up instruments…
The Portland foursome’s four-song EP 'Spooky' is minimalist in every sense of the word. The band’s debut album, 'The Mystery & Her Crew', was released in 2006, and had a folkier sound juxtaposed with 'Spooky', which vibes a sort of…
The So So Glos return to the Claremont Colleges, this time with pals The A.M, for another fantastic blowout. The show starts promptly at 8 pm this Thursday and will take place outside of the Pomona College Smith Campus Center.…
General Profanity, KSPC's legendary concert series at the dA Center for the Arts, returns for its latest installment this Saturday, March 28th during Pomona Art Walk. This month's theme: Electronica! Come on out for a night of great, free live…
Adam Lipman is a former Riverside resident who I believe now lives in the Bay Area. However, the internet tells me that this record was recorded in Salt Lake City. Like most of his previous works, Lipman uses music as…
Wavvves (3 v’s) is the second full-length album from Wavves (2 v’s), the pseudonym of San Diego musician Nathan Williams. This album radiates with the atmosphere of Williams’s laid-back hometown, helping to create fuzzy, relaxed beach punk reminiscent of surf…
Blanketship, AKA, turntable-list Jared Blum of San Francisco, has (gracefully) spit out his fourth album, 'The Sound of Fun Surrounds You/Klangwunder'. Beware of the bizarre alien sounds in KLANGWUNDER! Blanketship’s conduction takes us on a ride through a collage of…
The first Night Control album took more than 10 years to get here, but it was so deeply worth the wait. Lovingly assembled by our friends at Kill Shaman, �Death Control� collects the best of a massive back-catalog of unreleased…
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn makes beautiful music based mostly around her picked guitar and amazing voice. This is her fourth solo album, and first since 2004's 'C'mon Miracle' (separated by her collaboration with Spectratone International on the also excellent 'Share…