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…
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…
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.
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…
Chain and the Gang is led by DC-based rocker Ian Svenonius, who has had a long and illustrious career. He's been the frontman for some awesome bands such as Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and Weird War, published a book,…
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…
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…
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…
The Brooklyn improvisational robo-psychedelia quartet, Psychic Ills, debuted in 2006 with their acclaimed album, Dins. The band just liberated their second album, Mirror Eye. The record is intoxicatingly groovy: an eclectic compilation of synth sounds and primitive beats. A notably…
Savage Republic are performing their longer European tour set at their traditional FREE warm-up show at The Press in Claremont, California this Saturday Jan 3 around 10:30 pm. The Press 129 Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711 Phone: 909-625-4808
If you noticed that the navigation bar on the main KSPC website is letting you explore another half-inch more of space, you are not going crazy. We hope that, in the very near future, the brand new 'Multimedia' section will…
Inland Empire troubadour and KSPC Blowout veteran John Thill performs at 8 PM this Friday (12/5) at Ecoterra in the Claremont village. Formerly of Quem Quaeritis, Aum Rifle, and a handful of short-lived side projects, Thill has a new album…