“Let’s dance,” said Lydia Night, frontwoman of The Regrettes, facing an audience eager to embrace everything the punk rock band represents: unapologetic teenage energy. The 17-year-old tipped her cowboy hat and joined the audience in singing the first few lyrics of...
Four years of utter silence only contributed to the excitement brewing in the Santa Ana Observatory, where Vampire Weekend would soon take the stage to face a sold-out crowd of eager concertgoers, ready to break the silence. The long-awaited return from their hiatus...
Ty Segall demonstrating his incessant musical prowess on drums, the instrument he originally started out on. On Wednesday June 27, hometown hero Ty Segall performed at the Sandpiper Lounge in Laguna Beach with his garage-surf-punk trio, The Traditional Fools, as part...
There’s nothing escapist about Vacationer, the band who—despite its name—has opted out of sandy beaches and tourists traps for the ultimate staycation: a trip to a new state of mind. With the Philadelphia dream-pop band’s third studio album, Mindset, it’s clear it’s a...
There’s an entire great big world out there, beyond the suburbs, Maryland and everything 19-year-old Lindsey Jordan knows—but she can’t help but wonder if her crush is thinking of her. It’s the beating heart of the paradoxical teenage experience, the interwoven...
Though seasons come and go, Jimmy Whispers lives in a perpetual summer of hell. Released back in March of 2015, Summer in Pain is a 23-minute lo-fi tale of the apocalyptic world of heartbreak, love, life and death that not even a vacation can save Whispers from. It...
“Wait. Hold on. Before we start again, I just want to say thank you. I can’t tell you how much I needed this,” said Charity Rose Thielen, (vocals/guitar/percussion/keys) for indie-folk band, The Head and The Heart, behind locks of faded pink hair. Blinking back...
“I don’t care if I die of heatstroke up here. This is rock and roll,” said Brad Petering, lead singer of TV Girl, refusing to take off his leather jacket as he stood in the heat emitted from blindingly bright stage lights overhead. Instead, the frontman took a swig of...
By Corey Brindley Locally, it’s known as The Dirty Bird. A small, dimly lit bar covered in stickers, old surf ephemera and dusty artworks donated by the countless neighborhood artists that have called this place their watering hole since the sixties. Rope lights and a...
By Claire Epting “I feel so badly that you’re stuck out in the hallway. Here, we’ll play this one for you.” When Alaina Riley, the female half of the dream-like dream pop duo Tennis addressed the few unfortunate souls unable to worm their way into a sardine-packed...