Lately, Texas-born jazz guitarist Bruce Forman's focus has been on western swing, the hot 1930s hillbilly subgenre initially proposed by Milton Brown and Bo...
Cerebral Ballzyis a hardcore punk band from Brooklyn. Influenced by Void and Circle Jerks — and benefiting from the artwork of Black Flag's black flag designer Raymond Pettibon — this five-piece band sings about standard punk fare: drinking, skateboarding, partying and more drinking. We dug around for a few more......
Savannah, Ga.'s, Graveface Records is the unassuming indie label that could. Like L.A.'s In the Red, Graveface is clearly run by folks who give a shit a...
Once you've checked out The Loose Salute, may we interest you in Graveface's second offering for June 7: a revamped "deluxe" version of Black Moth Super...
Here's where we stand on Twilight: Those prudish books are a ghastly abomination, particularly for adult readers; that first Catherine Hardwicke movie is aw...
DAVID BOWIE VS. KCRW Golden Years In honor of Bowie recording Station to Station in L.A., a quartet of our very own silky-voiced KCRW DJs decided to remix...
DAVID BOWIE VS. KCRW Golden Years In honor of Bowie recording Station to Station in L.A., a quartet of our very own silky-voiced KCRW DJs decided to remix...
L.A. alt-folk quartet Dawes turned heads with their 2009 album North Hills. One of those heads belonged to Robbie Robertson, which led to the band backing the Band's former guitarist and songwriter for a variety of promo and festival gigs. Dawes drew, in part from that experience when recording and......
On their new live album, released this week, Melvins sound like a slow-motion avalanche, with rumbling bass and grunge-metal guitar slamming headlong into a thi...