Lemon Sun has a had a good week. The songs “Same Old Ground” and “Congratulate Our Thievery” have been chosen as INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION finalists out of over 15,000 entries. Here’s a reason why it was good to shell out the entry fee and get these judges listening: Tom Waits, James Mercer (The Shins), Robert [...]

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photography by Daiana Feuer Lemon Sun represented Los Angeles as the opener for both Hot Rats shows, delivering a rock show with just enough tambourine and guitar noodling to satisfy. Thom Yorke probably has “Telephone” in his head right now, since he and a handful of ’90s rockers were in attendance at Spaceland and Troubadour [...]

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The rain let up the other night. Was it a receding storm? A parting of the Heavens? Or was it because we were at Spaceland where Lemon Sun opened up for the Hotrats while people such as Har Mar Superstar, Thom Yorke and some of his Radiohead band mates, and Britt Daniel from Spoon watched along with a packed venue of fans? I like to believe the latter.

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I wound up at the Echoplex instead, getting the joy of seeing one of L.A.’s wondrous little surprises, He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister. Cali country is something I love with the fervor of a late convert, since even Buck Owens was little more than some jackass on TV until I moved my Dixie-fried ears out here for an accidental steeping in the Bakersfield Sound and its many variants. Robert Kolar and Felipe Ceballos from tough indie wide-boys Lemon Sun contribute heavily to Brother/Sister, with the whole, shifting, multi-piece concatenation in the great line of Gram Rabbit and the Parson Red Heads in the insistence on coupling the High with the Lonesome.

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It is no surprise that Lemon Sun is essentially based on a dream Kolar once had—by the end of a set, they have glided you through your own dream sequence leaving you refreshed and desiring more.

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L.A. RECORD‘s Chris Ziegler will DJ with Spindrift (on the cover here and interviewed here over beers at the Reno Room) and Lemon Sun at the Que Sera in Long Beach tonight. Expect Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano, Norman Greenbaum, Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies and… Creedence. Flyer with all info below.

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