Tyger Byle bills itself as “Humboldt’s preeminent jug-prog band.” Having never seen the group live and so being deprived of all context I have absolutely no idea what that means. At all. However, I am told by local sources that it is a show worth checking out so maybe find out for yourself — for […]
Dead Bird Sons
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Bells, Banjos and Puppets
As I write this from my friend’s porch on a hot afternoon in the last week of June, my ears are met with the sweet sounds of summer. No, wait, that’s just a rooster mindlessly screaming in the yard while it pecks around in the dry dirt for snacks. Meanwhile, spreading around me with the […]
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Preach, Manic Street Preachers
As I write this, I am watching the snow melt on my porch in the early afternoon of a bank holiday Monday. What could be more wholesome and Peanuts-esque than snow on President’s Day? Well, how about living in a country where children don’t get slaughtered at school on Valentine’s Day? All because a group […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 22
It’s going to be a night of intricate low-fi rock exploding into artful blasts of pop splendor at The Outer Space, when Los Angeles and ANTI- Records’ own Girlpool turn on the bright lights. Supported by the likeminded — though noisier — Special Explosion from Seattle and local queer punk kids Slop this show starts […]