Two great shows tonight:

First, it’s this week’s featured band The Fling, with Golden Animals at the Prospector. When asked about how they became involved in music, band member Dustin Lovelis (works at the Pike! Stop by for a pint and say hi!) replied, “We just grew up around it. Our dad had some really amazing [...]

AUGUST 28  SAMUELI THEATRE
Cheery audience sing-alongs, calls for hand clapping and impromptu choreography—bump up the set time by eight hours and this could have been a toddler bop show, the sort of thing that unbridled cynicism usually deflates but tonight was just my favorite bits of pop rock & roll, fully realized. The set began [...]

YACHT and Mika Miko make the end of the world even weirder

YACHT started as the acronymic pen name (Young Americans Challenging High Technology) for Jona Bechtolt, then beating up a MIDI controller and a PowerBook while screaming out Scout Niblett covers and Donnie Darko references. Back in 2004, his only record was Super Warren MMIV: [...]

Matt Wignall and wells in foreign lands

PHOTO COLLAGE by MATT WIGNALL
Matt Wignall has reasons to find his name all across Long Beach: as Matt Wignall, photographer; Matt Wignall, musician; Matt Wignall, sometime writer and producer and engineer and as much a source of perspective and wisdom to Cold War Kids—whose first recordings came from his [...]