Hellogoodbye CONCERT REVIEW!
By Lucia Ruan Saturday night, I saw history being made in a concert. Even though it wasn't my first, I'm far from the most experienced concert-goer. This one was different from that Boys Like Girls concert from the 10th…
Shouts OUT to Dana Falconberry!
Folk band Dana Falconberry performed February 26 on Amaru’s show Lost at Sea. The Austin band is touring to promote their latest (&greatest) album, Leelanau, which our DJs having been spinning for the past couple months. The band even brought along…
The Janks and P L a N E T S @ Art After Hours
The Janks and P L a N E T S @ Art After Hours By Vivian Ponte-Fritz The Pomona Museum of Art frequently (every thursday) opens its doors for a extended bit of time and allows students and the general…
The New Year!
Hello all, This new year at KSPC will be filled with lots of excitement. You can expect: more posts about upcoming bands our awesome top 20 list of albums more spotlight interviews and favorite songs and albums of our staff…
Kendrick Lamar (with Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Stalley & Fly Union) 10/18
Kendrick Lamar (with Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Stalley & Fly Union) Promotional POST! By Katie Shepley Where: Fox theatre- 301 S.Garey Ave. Pomona, CA When: October 18th 8.30pm (doors open 7.30pm) How much?: $35 From Compton California, this homeboy is an…
SBTRKT (with Kilo Kish and Syd the Kyd) 10/14
SBTRKT (with Kilo Kish and Syd the Kyd) Promotional POST! By Katie Shepley Where: Club Nokia- 800 West Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA When: October 14th 9pm (Doors open 8pm) How much: $35 From London, United Kingdom, Aaron Jerome who…
KSPC & RHINO Present: Katie Ferrara @ Rhino Records
On Sunday, March 25th KSPC is kicking off our "5-C Invasion" in-store series at Rhino Records in the Claremont Village with Pitzer alum Katie Ferrara! Every Sunday at 3pm from March 25- April 15th, mosey on down to Rhino and…
Belated Birthday Wishes for KSPC
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…
SHOW REVIEW: Milo Greene @ Fingerprints Music
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…
SHOW REVIEW: Xerxes and Code Orange Kids
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…
SHOW REVIEW: Jon Brion at the Largo
Photo by Lincoln Andrew Defer/The Largo LA.
The Largo at the Coronet is a venerable LA-nightlife institution, as evidenced by the photos of star comedians like Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman in the lobby and, of course, by the great Jon Brion�s status as an essential artist-in-residence there. He has played the Largo monthly since 1996, often bringing friends and surprise famous guests. As an independent musician, producer for artists including but not limited to Aimee Mann, Elliot Smith, Fiona Apple, and Kanye West, and composer of the score for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, and Boogie Nights, Jon Brion has connections and talent enough to be distributed equitably between at least five or six people. Though his set a couple weeks ago on November 18 was more acoustic and mellow than I had been led to expect, I still came away satisfied and impressed by Brion and a certain special surprise guest.
SHOW REVIEW: Blind Pilot at El Rey
Photo by Shannon Lubetich.
Saturday November 19, 2011 1:30 AM
I just got back from one of the most amazing concerts of my life: Blind Pilot, with Point Juncture, WA, at the El Rey Theatre in LA on Friday, Nov. 19.
First up was �Point Juncture, WA from Portland, OR.� When asked after the show about the origin of their name, they said they were obsessed with the TV show �Twin Peaks,� and wanted to create their own imaginary town. This puzzled me, because I actually am from Washington, and was wondering where the heck Point Juncture was. Apparently, the band has had several people from Washington come up to them and claim they go to �Point Juncture� all the time� false. Not a real place.
SHOW REVIEW: GROUPLOVE at El Rey
Photo by Rachel Fidler.
It�s rather funny that I spent most of October 26 debating on whether or not to go to this show. However, as I was working diligently on my Anthropology midterm, I mused to myself about the purpose of life.
Okay… maybe not something quite that deep.
But I did decide that I had a great opportunity at hand, and so at that moment, I closed my computer, got in my car, and jetted to LA to try and make it for GROUPLOVE at the El Rey.
SPACE REVIEW: the dA Center for the Arts
Photo by Julia MacNelly.
Last Saturday evening, before Halloween festivities would prompt me to don a disguise of vivid tribal facepaint, I came across a different kind of disguise. At first glance, the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona seems like it’s just an art gallery—and an impressive one at that, with lively sculptural paintings and installations seeping out from every corner (and some even hanging from the ceiling). But that’s where its disguise has you fooled: it’s not only an art gallery, but a concert venue, a yoga studio, and a classroom.
SHOW REVIEW: tUnE-yArDs at The Music Box
The key word I must use to describe the show at the Music Box last Wednesday is “layered”. It was the so-called “remix culture” at its finest: danceable, sophisticated loops of vocals and instrumentals, sometimes live and sometimes electronically generated, but never once lazy or unoriginal. I was, of course, lucky enough to be seeing tUnE-yArDs, one of the most exciting recent indie projects out there and one that is, rightfully, blowing up in the biggest and best of ways.