“So our band name is a funny one. We basically decided that we don’t ever want to share the true meaning behind the name because, we were in high school when we came up with it and we aren’t too fond of the meaning anymore, to say the least. We like to make up stories in each interview. Usually we […]

“Hey Trina, So I’m gonna do my best to try and paint a nice picture about each of these songs. Each one is a pretty cool journey and I’d like to take you on them.” Dan Pellarin, Arc & Stones This is one aspect of music that excites me because every song is a telling of a story, of a […]

Saturday January 19, 2013Tripping the daylight fantastic among four-legged family members, organic squash blossoms, vegan pita bread and hand-stitched/embroidered whatevers… That’s just an ordinary Saturday at the Farmer’s Market in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silverlake. And since LA is never one to do ordinary for more than 15 minutes, enter Detroit’s own Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. arriving on the […]

12/13/2012 “The war is over, let the battle begin- The album was officially completed and wrapped in the studio on 12-12-12… ROBERT LEVON BEEN*”  This was the Facebook announcement that many have waited for with breath bated and the many collectively exhaled. Because it meant that a certain wondrous thunder was about to roar again: Los Angeles based trio Black Rebel […]

I like a good band who’s got some serious DIY bones in them. Cue this conversation about the UK’s fiN and their quirky-ass moniker (for better or worse, in this respect we can place them right alongside fun.) Last year these guys gave us the MuteMath-ish (in a really good way) “Rapture,” the opus “Everybody Dies Alone,” as well as the notion […]

 These days in the realm of music, an air- that rarified air- of authenticity often feels harder and harder to come by. The popular, packaged and big-box music machine churns out more and more for us to listen to and look at but less to actually hear and see, let alone feel. One cure for so much malaise and mediocre […]

Milo Greene just make it so darned easy to like them. A winsome looking bunch, aren’t they? In chronological years the five piece ensemble made up of Robbie Arnett, Marlana Sheetz, Andrew Heringer, Graham Fink and Curtis Marrero has entered its ‘terrible twos’, yet it seems they’re behaving themselves quite nicely. The truth is that ever since gently debuting upon the […]