Echo Park Rising, Day 3: Getting dark with Twin Temple, Tennis System

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Twin Temple at Echo Park Rising (Photo by Notes From Vivace)
Twin Temple at Echo Park Rising (Photo by Notes From Vivace)

Third of three posts on Saturday’s Echo Park Rising:

“Is everyone feeling the spirit of Satan here?” singer-sorceress Alexandra James of Twin Temple asked the crowd at the Lost Lot on Saturday night at Echo Park Rising. “Well, is everyone feeling the spirit of doo-wop?”

With that, she and bandmate/hubby Zachary James laid down a set of gothic retro-pop, one of the highlights of the eclectic fare at the west end on the festival on Day 3.

Elsewhere, shoegazers Tennis System roared through the dark haze as singer-guitarist Matty Taylor declared, simply, “It’s a good crowd;” Cillie Barnes gave it her emotional and physical all as her former bandmates in the Family of the Year looked on; Edith Crash again a proved a one-woman wrecking crew; the Fiends unleashed a dose of good ol’ punk rock; City Rabbits opened with a cover of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” before kicking into their own jams; New Evil’s Sophia Anita Reyes shadow-boxed her way through her quartet’s set, thrashing so hard one of her hoop earrings went flying; and keyboardist Alexander Anderson laid down a smooth set of digi-pop.

Photos by Notes From Vivace

||| Echo Park Rising coverage:
► Thursday
► Friday
► Saturday, Part I (Buzz Bands LA Stage)
► Saturday: Part II