Yes, he’s that Brian Karscig from Louis XIV. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, here is San Diego’s the Nervous Wreckords, After SD based Louis XIV called it a day, the Nervous Wreckords became that creative outlet and next step for Karscig. So creative and so next step-ish that when all he had were a handful of recorded […]

Believe it or not and comparative to most, I haven’t lived in Los Angeles for very long: I haven’t even celebrated my third LA anniversary yet. But years before making the conscious decision to take root here, Nico Vega were my first Los Angeles band discovery and let’s give it up to MySpace for that (applause!). From the moment that […]

We live in interesting times when a song called “The Prostitute” is the topic of discussion. And just in time for the weekend (in case anyone was considering a career change) and two weeks prior to the Presidential election. Draw what you will from that. Why so sad, robot? The only folks who can answer that question are Katherine Pawlak […]

Summer always tends to yield a musical something that’s a little delicious and reeks of across the board appeal: it’s cyclical and I think we all actually like it that way. Australian gents Keith Jeffrey, Michael Jeffrey and Darren Sell who are Atlas Genius filled that bill quite nicely with the dance-groovy bit “Trojans”: a ridiculously hook-ridden song that aired […]

Let’s preface this conversation with the words, “Ooh, baby” and go from there. Veering just a little left of center from their signature propulsive, tribal, all hell wonderfully breaks loose, trance-ful, dance-ful, non-acid tripping, horn-y jams (we’re talking a brass section, folks), the 8-piece Brooklyn indie-pop/Afro-funksters, Rubblebucket, kind of get their sexy (or sexier than usual) on with the new […]

FACT: There’s usually something a bit more cohesive, innately more honest about music that’s made among friends. Feelings run deeper yet come to the surface with greater ease through a lyric here, a guitar chord there. See Sam Martin and Simon Katz (formerly of Iglu & Hartley) along with Tasso Smith, Alice Katz and Nik Hughes: a quintet of modern, […]

The one thing that I want for the musicians and bands who make the music that moves me is for them to never have to have a day job…unless that day job is making music. It’s Labor Day Monday and the eve of the release of Imagine Dragons’ full-length debut, Night Visions and the band has made themselves comfortable at the FM 98.7 Penthouse […]