“If you want, we can draw you a diagram.” So offers Jenna Eyrich, co-founder of O.C.-raised, L.A.-based band Sweet Bump It. It’s not a bad offer — over the course of two years, the group ballooned from her and a high school friend to seven people, spouting their own weird......
Shawn King and Raul Pacheco had met just once before they started working together on Los Dreamers. That meeting was backstage at a gig at the Fillmore, a 103-year-old auditorium in Denver. King is the drummer and sometimes-trumpeter of Denver gypsy-folk outfit Devotchka — the four-piece quartet that went from......
De'Anza KGB Gallery Saturday, March 7, 2015 “Who here doesn’t speak Spanish?” asks De’Anza Paredes about halfway through her six-song set at the release party for her debut EP, Despertar. Scattered hands are tentatively raised — most hover around chest height, as if hoping she won’t catch them. The self-dubbed......
The first sounds on Slutever’s latest EP are a propulsive smash of drums and three notes on a guitar that hit the listener like an elbow to the face. Rachel Gagliardi and Nicole Snyder have been regulars in the L.A. grunge-pop scene for roughly a year, playing sweaty sold-out gigs......
It’s impossible to describe Jungle Fire without employing a lot of adjectives. The band/project (they describe themselves as both) sports nearly a dozen members: four drummers, two trombonists, two guitarists, a bassist and two baritone sax players who can also bust out flutes on short notice. Their music starts off with......
The scene used to be tight, Kev Nish remembers. Beats thumped through the concrete walls. Skinny girls in four-inch pumps poured out at three in the morning, stumbling and giggling off into the Koreatown night. The hum of the blue neon — spelling VIBE in capital letters — whirred all......
Sam France doesn't want to talk about any “rebound record.” “It’s not a rebound. Stuff was never that bad.” France doesn't sound particularly hostile, or even mildly annoyed. If anything, he sounds like a teenager explaining to the teacher why his homework isn't done. “We both were young, certainly,” he......
Electro-rap quartet Far East Movement have been MIA from L.A. for nearly three years. The hometown boys scored a number one hit, "Like a G6," back in 2010, which quickly spiraled into world tours with everyone from LMFAO to Rihanna. But now it's time for a homecoming, and the K-Town......
Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez were away from L.A. for almost six years — one in Mexico, four and a half in Seattle — before returning in 2012. They barely recognized the place. “We did CicLAvia and I was like, ‘Whoa, what happened to downtown?’” says Gonzalez, laughing in the......
The folks behind Blind Blind Tiger prefer that we not disclose where they record their videos and podcasts. Their "online speakeasy" - as they call it - features new and notable local indie bands, from LA Font to the Dead Ships and Manhattan Murder Mystery. You can find new content on the site the......
