It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Long Beach bluesy indie rockers Cold War Kids first got together, and nearly just as long since they exploded onto the scene to an unheard of level of buzz with their debut, Robbers & Cowards, winning over legions of fans and critics alike and becoming one of…
Los Angeles hard rock outfit Badflower sprung onto the scene just over a decade ago (though several members had been playing together for a number of years already, first meeting as teens), attracting label interest and buzz beyond their native SoCal almost instantly thanks to their hard-hitting, energetic live show, and inking a major…
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It’s hard to be believe it’s now been more than 15 years since New York’s Vampire Weekend took the world by storm with their eponymous debut LP, released to an unbelievable mountain of hype just a few short years after first meeting and forming the band while students at Columbia. Back then, the power of blog…
Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and…
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Chappell RoanFirstBank Amphitheater; Franklin, TNOctober 1, 2024 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. There is, perhaps, no single artist (certainly not in the pop space) having a more spectacular 2024 than Chappell Roan, whose debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, dropped just over a year ago to positive,…
Made up of bassist Laura Lee, guitarist Mark Speer, and drummer DJ Johnson, genre-bending and acclaimed Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin first formed in the early 2010s, after Lee and Speer had previously met and collaborated around Texas, and served as backing players for electronic artist Yppah, before deciding to make music together full-time and…
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For more than a decade now, LA by way of Seattle electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist Robert DeLong has been dazzling us with his dance-primed, lush, and off-kilter musical stylings, informed by his background playing in indie and pop punk bands, a sensibility which sets him apart (and keeps him more instrumentally-rooted) than some of…