FERRABY LIONHEART, OBI BEST, WILLOUGHBY, AND ROB KOLAR ON TUESDAY FEB. 8TH AT THE SATELLITE, 1717 SILVERLAKE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $8/ 21+

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Last night on TV during a marathon of Run’s House, a familiar face appeared on a Power Gig commercial. Further investigation has revealed that it’s Rob Kolar of He’s My Brother She’s My Sister and Lemon Sun. For anyone wishing they could see him without pants on, here’s your chance. —Georgia Dorge

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Lemon Sun’s new music video for “Touch The Lightning” pits singer Rob Kolar against a mysterious suitcase. Director Emily Wilder stitched together a bajillion photos for this stop-motion creation. As a song and video, “Touch The Lightning” takes the subtle approach to trippy.

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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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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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