Grandaddy ““ “Just Like The Fambly Cat”

What Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle described as “erosion” when referring to the state of his band is only an afterthought considering the repair that comes in the form of the band’s fifth and final album, “Just Like the Fambly Cat.” Though the band might have broken up for good, it stayed together for a final […]

Soundbites: Built to Spill ““ "You in Reverse"

Built to Spill has been in hiatus since its last release in 2001, at work on arguably its most serious compositional work yet, “You in Reverse.” Singer/guitarist Doug Martsch takes a guitar-heavy path on this album, his voice muted and musical abstractions asked to speak for themselves with tiny sparks of illumination by the words. […]

Professor to play cello in classical Baroque concert

While a Baroque concert might be overlooked by many patrons of popular music, such a rarity still exists ““ thanks to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini and master cellist and UCLA Professor Elisabeth Le Guin. Le Guin will perform this weekend with Musica Angelica, one of Southern California’s premier Baroque orchestra since its formation in […]

Going commercial

As the indie trend sweeps from popular music to the cinema, two corporations are turning indie rock into indie chic. American Apparel, the rapidly growing clothes retailer that opened its Westwood location this past summer, sells its T-shirts wholesale to independent bands. These groups, ranging from the Rx Bandits to Sub Pop Records mainstays such […]