Three years into his residence in Los Angeles and nearly a decade as the driving force behind San Francisco-born shoegazers Film School, Greg Bertens faced a career turning point as he set about making the band’s fourth album. “Things changed, from the lineup to separating from [the label] Beggars Banquet,” Bertens says. “I felt a […]
This edition of The Buzzsicle, which I’ve randomly titled “Summerfunnin’,” includes a batch of music that’s hit my inbox in the past few weeks – some old, some new, some just new to me. In future episodes, I will try to highlight new releases and songs/bands that I simply don’t have the time to do […]
Dave Dupuis is a familiar figure to Eastside clubgoers, and not just for his head of hair, which seems to occupy the whole room. Dupuis, who plays guitar in Film School and was a sound man at Spaceland and for several bands (including Silversun Pickups), recently debuted his new band, the trio Nightmare Air. It […]
My only quibble with “New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets” is the “tribute” part, which seems a bit presumptive. Call me stuffy, but only the truly seminal bands should get tributes; the good ones can be saluted, and the others, well, covered. In a decade-plus of tailoring the Bauhaus aesthetic to […]
Sometimes Andrew Lynch seems like he’s everywhere. And maybe he is. The multi-instrumentalist has played alongside, or worked in the studio with, Afternoons, the Amateurs, the Black Pine, Castledoor, Earlimart, the Poor Excuses and Radars to the Sky, to name a handful. The Alaska native’s solo work merits attention too, for its occasionally playful and […]
