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Abandoned Pools ready to be found again
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If Tommy Walter didn’t have bad luck … well, he wouldn’t have those hard-luck stories he can tell about his first two albums. Walter, in his nom de tune Abandoned Pools, released two fine albums last decade. “Humanistic” came out in 2001, just before Extasy Records went belly-up. “Armed to the Teeth” followed in 2005, […]
Buzz Bands welcomes Abandoned Pools to Spaceland
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Abandoned Pools – the musical vehicle of Tommy Walter (an original member of Eels) – return from a five-year hiatus to headline “A Night With Buzz Bands LA” on Tuesday, June 15, at Spaceland. Opening the evening will be up-and-coming indie-pop wizards Chasing Kings, followed by the tightly wound guitar rock of L.A. quintet Vanaprasta. […]
Oliver the Penguin: Music’s done, bring on the script
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Oliver the Penguin is not so much a band, or an album. It’s a persona – a character that sprung from the minds of musician-about-town Tommy Walter and singer-songwriter-composer Rie Sinclair. If the duo has their way, Oliver the Penguin won’t just be an album that they plan to release in March, it will be […]
For Glacier Hiking, it’s been a long climb
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I generally don’t get too excited about EP releases — they’re more snapshots of band’s work or a trial balloon rather than an artistic statement — but today’s inaugural release, “The Color by Number EP,” by L.A. duo Glacier Hiking merits some special attention, at least for the backstory. Glacier Hiking is the brainchild of […]
