To experience Slow Pulp’s music is to plant oneself beneath a warm summer sun, luxuriating under thick beams of light despite an impending tornado promising to wreak havoc on an ephemeral peace. Masters of metaphor, the Chicago-based, indie band’s productions echo the emotional roller coaster that is life, bolstered by hazy shoegaze riffs and an…
Unlike its title, DOPE LEMON’s song “Kids Fallin’ in Love” is not an accurate picture of the millennial crowd that flocked to the Bellwether Monday night. Despite the cityscape that surrounded the venue, the group matched the aura of the band’s music and dressed in bohemian attire reminiscent of a desert music festival. The band’s…
The shoegaze movement undeniably peaked in the early 90s, and some would even say it died as a genre. Yet, its brilliance lives on in the “shoegaze renaissance,” its legacy manifested in nu-gaze, dreampop, and space rock bands, with new generations drawing influence from its classic distortion and feedback-ridden sound. However, one band in particular has…
The Breeders @ The Wiltern [10/19/23] Photos by Abigail Tran “Breeders” is a tongue-in-cheek term used by the gay community to describe straight individuals. The name that Kim Deal chose for her band pokes fun at heterosexual relationships, reducing them to their primitive purpose of breeding. A return to our origins, of sorts. In a…
As the Los Angeles Pandemonium tour show vacillated from a romantic atmosphere to a rave-like experience, Joji demonstrated that regardless of how eccentric, playful, and even vulgar one can be, we all experience the intense depths of emotions from love and loss. The October 6th concert at the Crypto.com Arena began with openers Lil Toe…
From playing sets for EDC Las Vegas and the Ultra Music Festival, to dropping his first full-length album, House of Glass, 2022 proved to be a monumental year for Wax Motif. A year in which Motif’s momentum climaxed, the “build-up” cresting prior to an explosive drop that was the launch of his 2023 “House of…
“It feels like we’re all in a little living room together.” It makes sense for an artist to say this about a jazz club or local dive bar, but the Greek Theatre? Undaunted, LA based Natalie Mering, known professionally as Weyes Blood, is headlining the Greek with an impressive 6,000 people in attendance to witness…
Photos by Evan Ibarra “I am going to make it / through this year / if it kills me.” Hearing the chorus from “This Year” by the Mountain Goats a few days before both turning 17 and turning in college applications all on November 30th felt like the band wrote it with me in mind.…
Photos by Asher Cohen and Ria Bose Turning the corner on Sunset and Argyle, my eyes dart across the never ending line of eager concert goers. This sold-out show is the 21st stop of the international “Space Heavy” tour, and the excited assembly of King Krule fans shuffle their feet in anticipation. Krule, the musical…
Photos by Chloe Gonzales The first time I had heard of the hip-hop/rock duo Paris Texas was when BROCKHAMPTON had announced they were opening for their later-canceled HERE RIGHT NOW tour. Half a year later in March 2022, someone sent me a playlist with the song “HEAVY METAL” in it. The rough guitar riff and…