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Live Review: Devil Season at the Wayfarer in Costa Mesa, CA
Material: Long Beach’s Devil Season are one of those bands that are wonderfully tough to classify. It’s tempting to throw the label “punk” at them, and there are certainly elements of Bad Brains, plus ... -
Eric Church: So Much More Than Your Typical Outlaw
Country singer-songwriter Eric Church isn’t keen on the much-overused tag “outlaw,” but sometimes the dusty trucker cap fits, so it’s best to grin and wear it. With a sound that ... -
Live Review: Chief White Lightning at The Wayfarer in Costa Mesa, CA
Material: Occasionally, while doing this sort of work and listening to new music every day, we stumble across the sort of artist who makes us feel like we’re at ground ... -
Live Review: Swami Lushbeard at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach, CA
Material: Opening up a three band bill on a Saturday night at Hermosa Beach’s prime rock & roll venue, L.A. rockers Swami Lushbeard have the advantage of presenting the only ... -
Signing Story: Casanova
Brooklyn rapper Casanova saw his debut EP Commissary drop at the end of June via Roc Nation/Def Jam. The iconic hip-hop label realized that a deal with the blossoming, romantically ... -
Signing Stories: Madison Ryann Ward
It would be disingenuous to suggest that the U.S. suffers from a shortage of quality, soulful singer-songwriters. In fairness, you can find them in every city, in every dive bar ... -
Live Review: Jesika Von Rabbit at Alex's Bar in Long Beach, CA
Material: Between 2000 and 2013, Joshua Tree-based band Gram Rabbit, fronted by the inimitable Jesika Von Rabbit, did a startlingly good job of blending pop-electronica with dusty, rootsy Americana and ... -
ODESZA: Six Years Together, A Moment Apart
Just before graduating from Western Washington University in 2012, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight—known respectively as Catacombkid and BeachesBeaches—formed the electronic duo ODESZA. The self-released debut album, Summer’s Gone, dropped ... -
Live Review: Rats in the Louvre at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, CA
Material: Long Beach punks Rats in the Louvre originally formed when frontwoman Cruz wanted to play old Bikini Kill favorites, and that makes complete sense. Sharing sensibilities with Kathleen Hanna’s ‘90s ... -
Signing Story: Shame
At 19, one might imagine that the members of London band Shame had never heard of 1970s post-punk Gang of Four, from Leeds, U.K. If they haven’t, then the work ...
