Liz Ohanesian

The crowd is thick surrounding Bardot's stage. Onlookers stand close as Talk in Tongues whip through one psychedelic pop jam after the next. It might seem as though the band has been playing its big-guitar, harmony-heavy tunes since the shoegaze wave of the late 1980s and early '90s, but that......

Ten years ago, if I made a trip to the Smell, I would have made a detour or two to pick up friends. We would have searched for the last remaining parking spot near a street light, walked to the club huddled in a group and met up with a......

Martin Gore makes note of his "old school" tendencies on a recent phone call. He appreciates that music-making technology has become so portable and accessible that people can create with minimal equipment. However, that's not his style. "I find it very inspirational to be surrounded by equipment," says the Depeche......

As a child growing up in Wilmington in the South Bay, Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers watched all the classic musicals. He was familiar with the dance steps made famous by Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers and the rest. Nothing, though, captured his attention the way John Travolta did in......

If you think that Black Crystal Wolf Kids just smashed together the most commonly used words in indie rock band names, you're right. Inside a Hollywood coffeehouse, co-frontperson/guitarist/"captain" Jeff Miller runs down the list of groups who inspired his own band's name: Black Keys, Wolf Parade, Cold War Kids are......

Nathan Thelen had just returned from Los Angeles' Central Library when he hopped on the phone for this interview. Thelen goes to the library a lot. He starts talking about how, not too long ago, he saw a guy on the bottom level of the massive building playing tennis alone......