Look listen vibrate Red Pony Clock

PHOTO by LIZETH SANTOS
Gabe Saucedo sings and plays guitar, organ, banjo and trombone in San Diego’s Red Pony Clock, an enormous cheery pop band famous for its everything-but-the-kitchen sink instrumentation, theremins, sousaphones and marimbas, and earnest if goofy lyrics. He grew up in San Diego—humorlessly describing his neighborhood as “the [...]

PWRFL Power vs. Parenthetical Girls

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Kazutaka Nomura is the accomplished jazz guitarist with the naïve voice who leads Seattle’s PWRFL Power. Actually, naïve might be too broad a term—he sounds naïve, but his lyrics run to darker topics like child-beating (against), online dating (for) and drugs (position ambiguous). Which proves again that you’re [...]

Some colleges unaware of their awareness
As Rachel Powers notes below, ‘60s leftwing radical turned rightwing radical David Horowitz is promoting an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at colleges nationwide. Unfortunately for Horowitz, he’s been caught padding the list of participating campuses.