The Sugar Oaks from Orlando, Florida, have performed with Elf Power, Dr. Dog, Voxtrot, and Delta Spirit. The band features Christopher Belt on electric, acoustic, and slide guitars, vocals, and piano, as well as Eric Hayden (vocals, piano), Matthew Gersting (bass, vocals), Jonathan Kraft (drums), and Tiffany Barnes (delightful harmonies).
The Sugar Oaks are in [...]
Josiah Mazzaschi, lead vocals / Brian Barbiero, bass
Harry Trumfio, drums / Kim Haden, keys and effects
We caught Light FM earlier this month, opening up for Earlimart at the Echoplex. The band, transplants to L.A. from Chicago, played a short set without much audience interaction. But don’t let that or the [...]
Ryan Kirkpatrick and Harley Prechtel-Cortez of The Weather Underground
We always arrive early enough at shows that frequently we’re the first ones in line at the door. This is partly because we are obsessively punctual but also because we really like to see the opening bands, and we have discovered several we like a lot [...]
There are things I like about the Echo and things I don’t like. I like that it is tiny, which allows a degree of intimacy with the performers that is not possible in bigger venues. My big peeve is the lighting, which is best described as primitive. If the band members don’t stand [...]
Only two years ago St. Paul, MN singer-songwriter Corey Palmer turned his one-man bedroom project into a full-fledged five-piece band called These Modern Socks with the addition of members Arron Bergstrom (bass, backup vocals), Park Evans (guitar), Adrian Suarez (drums), and Nick Tveitbakk (keys, samples, back-up vocals).
Just released this past week, Picking a Lock at [...]
One of the openers for last Saturday’s show at the Echoplex was Los Angeles band Voxhaul Broadcast. Childhood friends David Dennis, Tony Aguiar, Phil Munsey, and Kurt Allen come off like a mixture of the Strokes’ rock with Al Green’s soul combined with a frenzy all their own.
They have played at SXSW [...]
Earlimart took the opportunity at the Echoplex last Saturday night, May 17, to introduce a few tracks from their new album Hymn and Her, scheduled for release in July. “For the Birds” and “Before It Gets Better” have been previewed on KCRW in the past few weeks.
While Earlimart’s album tracks are often lovely and [...]
We caught Colin Meloy at the Henry Fonda the Monday following Coachella, so we were a bit wiped out from that experience, and we were bummed to find out that the Music Box (or Colin himself, possibly) did not allow digital cameras. While Alt-gramma’s camera is excellent, it is not exactly small and we [...]
Bridges and Powerlines practicing one of my favorite pastimes–poking through the 99-cent rack at the music store
New York’s Bridges and Powerlines specialize in catchy power-pop riddled with 20-something angst. Ghost Types is their second full-length CD, released near the end of last month.
“Middle Child” was the first song that caught my fancy, but I [...]
The blurb about Freddie Stevenson for SXSW 2008 described him as Scottish folk punk. A visit to Nashville and current habitation in New York seem to have Americanized the Scottish accent and softened the punk bits, but many of the tunes on his April-released ablum All My Strange Companions are catchy and fierce.
I’m [...]
