If you didn't catch the in-store performance by Claire Cronin this past Sunday afternoon at Rhino Records, you missed out! There is still hope for you: we will be playing excerpts of her performance soon on KSPC, and she's also…
Mandy’s Performance Quality Scale- C+
I have seen many shows during my two years at the Claremont Colleges. There have been highs and lows in terms of performance and band personality, and after many months I have created a Performance Quality Scale in my mind. Ponytail at The Smell on 10/10/08 being at the high end of the scale and Band That Shall Remain Unnamed on 11/22/08 in Dom’s Lounge, Pomona College at the other end of the scale. On this scale, Nathan “Wavves” Williams lands somewhere in the middle.
Jupiter is Starfucker's second album, a mini-LP (or mega-EP) full of smooth, playful, dancy electropop with new wave vibes. Their first album was similar in many ways, but for this album they've apparently added a fourth member and given their…
On the front side, spinning five tracks wide, BIPOLAR BEAR, LA’s own fuzzy punks. On the flip, spinning four tracks deep (and into your eardrums they seep) Seattle’s psychedelic marching miscreants, Talbot Tagora. Bipolar Bear has once again birthed some…
King Khan and the Shrines more or less started when King Khan (on tour with former band The Spaceshits) toured through Germany and ended up settling down there. This album was the King Khan and the Shrines' debut on Hazelwood…
At times like these (Sunday morning, groggy, freakin' out about finals) it's fun to reminisce about the good old days. Like remember when the So So Glos and Alma Mater played a totally excellent blowout in March? Man, that rocked!…
The Screaming Females already have quite a following in their hometown of New Brunswick, New Jersey – for the last few years, they have frequently been playing shows in the area with other NJ punk bands such as Slaw and…
Saturday, April 18th is Record Store Day across the US -- here in Claremont, KSPC highly recommends that you go to Rhino Records in the Village and/or in Riverside, go to the Mad Platter and show your love for independent…
Covina Cali’s transcendental roots band, Orem (the sink) has re-freed Planets, a geo-biologically aware, lo-fidelity 2007 LP. Forget contemporary lo-fi indie hipsteria. Orem (the sink) goes beyond the yonder with timeless yet timely lyrics- “One thing about your planet is…
Depressed Horns is a mail-art project from Weirdo Records' founder and the self-described “long lost bedroom-fi stoner band” Goosewind. It is difficult to make immediate sense of their album Skate By, which combines ominous whispers, random samples, obscure instruments and…
Local heroes Refrigerator will be playing at Ecoterra this Friday as part of the store's "Village Beat" series of concerts and exhibitions! Refrigerator have been longtime friends of KSPC and they were a featured artist on the KSPC Basement Tapes…
Mandy’s Performance Quality Scale – A+
On March 26th, 2009 The So So Glos and pals Alma Mater landed at Pomona College. At approximately 8 pm out on The South Lawn, they put on one of the best live shows I have ever seen at the Claremont Colleges.
Seattleite Jordan Smith is the sweet-singing folk fellow behind Jordan O’Jordan’s Jar of Jams. Pure cane sugar might be to the sound of Jar of Jams what high fructose corn syrup is to evil. Blissfully simple banjo riffs and Jordan’s…
It is difficult to believe that Atlanta’s The Coat Hangers formed within the last few years – this girl band exudes the politically motivated vulgarity and riot grrrl energy of prior decades, allowing them to fit perfectly in a genre…
It’s been stated Amadou & Mariam produce not “world music” but “music for the world”. This is mildly cliché but very true. Welcome to Mali supplies proof. The album is their fifth recorded in studio and continues Amadou & Mariam’s…