I was shocked to find out that my favorite album ever, Radiohead's OK Computer, has now hit the double-digits in age since its original release. The album, which opened up a huge can of creativity-worms for me, still stands as a triumph of cohesive recording and...
For our 6th Lunarcast, we had a chance to meet up with L.A.’s own disco-lovin’ groovemeister Kennedy—yeah, the “Your Mama” guy. We first met up with him June 28 when he played the Warped Tour 2007 pre-party at the Glass House in Pomona,...
For our 6th Lunarcast, we had a chance to meet up with L.A.’s own disco-lovin’ groovemeister Kennedy—yeah, the “Your Mama” guy. We first met up with him June 28 when he played the Warped Tour 2007 pre-party at the Glass House in Pomona,...
I am like powderI am like relaxationI am the snowI dig in this oceanAnd I try to fill it with gold OK, so who hasn’t heard of Matador Records? It’s pretty much the label that virtually every indie band wants to get signed by. After a gig a few...
How many times have you walked away from an otherwise amazing live show thinking "Man, I just wish they had played !" The bad part about the inserting of a new album into a band's canon is that offbeat old favorites often have to surrender their spot in...
As a long-time fan and friend of San Francisco’s The Court & Spark, hearing the possibility of them calling it quits kind of made my heart hurt a little bit. The drummer, James Kim, and I have been friends since 1984 and I was there when he bought his first...
The National have decided to stay out super late this fall, spending five weeks in September and October touring the states before heading over to Ireland on Halloween to kick off a European jaunt. It's a sad fact that cloning technology is still in the rudimentary...
Full capacity at the El Rey Theater and only one measly glow stick was in sight. Disappointing really what with the ad nauseam hype that seemed to besiege the men of Klaxons. Publicity that may have gotten too ridiculous in fact, as to this day no one really has the...
It has been almost three years since Interpol released Antics, their defense to the darts of preconceived "sophomoric slump" criticism. In response to the praise of their debut Turn On The Bright Lights, the group insisted that merely improvement was not an...
The ever-hip kids over at Stereogum just announced some radness: the online-only release of OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer. The album, corresponding with the ten year anniversary of Radiohead's groundbreaking album–you remember the one everyone hated at the...