KSPC rung in its 56th birthday on Friday, February 17th with cupcakes, dancing, and some of our favorite bands at Pehrspace on Glendale Boulevard. Letters started the night off by encircling the audience with yarn; their set was low-key and…
TOP 30 1   Tennis   Young and Old   Fat Possum 2   Beach Fossils   Shallow   Captured Tracks 3   Wild Nothing   Nowhere   Captured Tracks 4   Hospitality   Hospitality   Merge 5   Sleeping in the Aviary   You and Me, Ghost   Science of Sound 6   Tycho   DIVE   …
Fingerprints Music in Long Beach, CA: February 19th 2012 Anyone who knows me knows I love Milo Greene. I mean, since seeing them for the first time last summer at the Troubadour (opening for Lord Huron), I have never been…
Topping our charts this week is Cloud Control's debut Bliss Release, a rhythmic but folk-y album full of catchy melodies. Check out other weekly favorites below! TOP 30 1 Cloud Control Bliss Release Turnout 2 Phantogram Nightlife-EP Barsuk 3 Sleeping…
A KSPC listener, Rod Thompson, recently sent me a copy of a western novel he wrote which was published last year by the Penguin Group Division of Berkley Books. I had never read a western novel, but felt obligated to…
The Noise Academy is really just a long room adjacent to Aladdin Jr.’s, a Mediterranean restaurant in Pomona. But as far as a hardcore venue goes, it’s perfect. There were other bands (Stresscase and Plagues) playing this show but I…
Next Tuesday there's a show in LA that's probably going to be one of the best hardcore shows of the year. It's a benefit show for the heart surgery of the daughter of ACxDC, one of the bands playing the…
Wowser Bowser’s debut, their self-titled album out on Adair Park Recordings, shows a lot of promise for this Atlanta-based band. Wowser Bowser gives high-energy performances, which has garnered their live shows incredibly positive reviews. The complexity of the music, through…
Tune in tomorrow, February 10, 2012, at noon to “Variations on a Theme†with DJ Karin to hear an interview with organist Christoph Bull. The interview will focus on his newly released recording, “First and Grand: Music from the Disney…
Okay okay, I just saw Twin Sister at The Echo on Friday February 3rd:  pace yourselves because the lineup was so great that I have a lot to say about each band and the entire experience. Talkdemonic was an excellent and…