It takes a special band to pull a crowd on the eve of Coachella weekend (opposite Pulp and Ariel Pink, no less!), but the School of Seven Bells managed just that feat last Thursday night at the Echoplex. On tour to celebrate its third full-length, Ghostory, School of Seven Bells brought the breadth and melodic electronic [...]

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Interpol Performing a couple nights around So. Cal. before hitting the Coachella stage this year, Interpol played just a short drive up the beautiful coast at UCSB. Hey, it’s not every night you go to see a band in a gym.  But these guys can pull it off.  With an ever-changing setlist, we were treated [...]

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It was easy to forget that there was a band onstage during tonight’s
Troubadour set by Black Moth Super Rainbow. With what may be best described as a half-man, half-ape prancing around in the foreground and an array of absurd videos projecting on a screen behind them, the four players seemed content to labor in relative obscurity. Their fuzzy riffs, heavy beats and vocoder-ized vocals were a fitting—although perhaps a bit homogeneous—soundtrack to the psychedelic sideshows that competed for the audience’s
attention.

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ian o’phelan

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