For all you fuzz pop and Viv G. fans in the house, the other Kickball Katy moniker known as La Sera is rolling through L.A. for a gig at The Satellite this Thursday while on tour in support of her forthcoming Sees The Light LP release. And we've got a pair of ticket to giveaway for the show... which will also feature support from the likes of Magnetix, Cold Showers and Neverever! Drop us a line to enter the Wednesday raffle for tickets. You can purchase tix and get more info on the show here [...]
illustration by carolyn pennypacker riggs V. Vale is a founding father of West Coast independent publishing—his Search and Destroy zine is one of the four secret parents of L.A. RECORD , and his Re/Search books are a decontamination manual for the human mind. He's so erudite and hilarious he should host a talk show with Van Dyke Parks and he will be speaking with L.A. RECORD alum Henry Rollins at the L.A. Zine Fest on Sunday , which will be followed by a free afterparty with the Allah Las, [...]
kim zuniga The ennui of off-season cheerleading practice, lifeguarding to save up for a longboard, scheming to elope to Tijuana with my summer camp sweetheart: I can just recall July at sixteen. Neverever have made themselves strangely at home in that moment. While debut Angelic Swells (Slumberland, 2010) was rife with school year angst, the band's new EP evokes the agony and ecstasy of summer vacation. But in the tradition of fellow Angelenos Suburban Lawns, Neverever's kitsch is freed from nostalgia by the grotesque realities of adolescence. [...]
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A funny little song from the forthcoming Neverever EP, Shake-A-Baby . The title: "Mexicoco." It's the kind of song that would have been a surf pop hit in the 60s if it had a better recording going for it. I can see leagues of teenage girls chewing gum and gossiping about guys on the phone while this song spins on a 45 through a nearby record player. While it's kinda kitschy, Neverever seems more than aware of that, and that makes the total package a little tongue-in-cheek. So just catch a wave and bop your head to [...]
Pop happy band Neverever have released a new single from their Shake-a-Baby EP that came out on January 17th through Slumberland. If you haven't been sucked into Neverever's throwback sound, listen to "Mexicoco" below and seek out the EP. Read more »
Where did this band come from? What did you they say their influences are again? Let Neverever whisk you away from all these silly worries.
A short holiday schedule of shows: ► Manhattan Murder Mystery's residency at the Satellite winds up with a supporting cast including One Trick Pony (pictured), George Glass and Last in Class . ► Neverever finishes its residency at the Echo on a bill that includes Sea Lions, Catwalk and more. Also: Spaceships, Belowme and the Dramedy at the Silverlake Lounge (free) Future Dancing, Cody the Band and Sunken Ships at the [...]
A night in Hollywood to spin you around: ► The RSVP-only It's a School Night at Bardot is starting the new month off strong — Daniel Lanois & Rocco DeLuca , great at the Satellite a few weeks ago, headline, and L.A.'s Bleached will rock it too. Most intriguing, though, is U.K. newcomer Michael Kiwanuka , who's released two EPs on Communion Records (run by Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett) and who is planning a U.S. full-length in the spring. Kiwanuka was to have opened for Adele before her vocal problems [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: The Strokes, Blondie "Neverever - Wedding Day" What's so good? Here we have California's Neverever, a four-piece power-pop (among other genres) band that really has a fantastic grasp on classic grungey 60s garage pop. Their featured track, "Wedding Day," is taken from their debut EP, Shake-A-Baby , due out on January 17, 2012. This track is so enjoyably catchy with its instant funky bass, wobbly [...]
I think we can officially declare Slumberland Records as the home of Twee Indiepop. Already they've given us Big Troubles, Sea Lions, Veronica Falls, and now they're introducing Neverever. Neverever's new EP Shake-a-Baby continues Slumberland's trend of catchy bubblegum music with a slight lo-fi quality. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
This coming Memorial Day weekend (May 25th - 29th) marks another wonderful line-up with the always original San Francisco Popfest . The great thing about SF Popfest is that every show boasts an impressive and nearly unfamiliar mess of bands from all over the world. The true indie rock fest will be featuring bands from the UK's C-86 movement, K Records of the Pacific Northwest, SF/DC indie-brainchild Slumberland Records. Even our own Blackbird Blackbird and The Mantles along with rising VA duo, Eternal Summers . Needless to say, [...]
Here's a photo I snapped of Dirty Beaches (Alex Zhang-Huntai) at Cheer Up Charlie's during SXSW. Alex had just stepped off the stage to confront the audience, or at least remind us that he takes his music and fans seriously. I appreciated this part of the performance because so many bands tend to hide behind their mics. Dirty Beaches play The Echo Thursday, 4/28 with Bell Gardens [...]
DEVON WILLIAMS, NEVEREVER, SUMMER TWINS, AND STONE DARLING ON FRIDAY APR. 22ND AT THE REDWOOD BAR, 316 WEST SECOND STREET, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ $5/ 21+
amanda sutton Download Davila 666 "Hangin' On The Telephone" (from Under the Covers Vol. 2 out now on Volar/I Hate Rock 'n' Roll) Like most aging rock 'n' rollers in L.A., I've sang a Nerves cover onstage with a band at some point in my life, and I also hate young people. So I wasn't exactly unbiased when I was loaned (not even given) the super-limited cassette version, hot off [...]
SWEATER GIRLS AND NEVEREVER ON FRIDAY MAR. 4TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $8/ 18+
Welcome to a new feature segment that we hope to share from time to time. I'm calling this segment Hypem Hunting, and it sprung from the fact that there is SO much music to browse through on the Hype Machine and I was never able to come up with a good way to dig through it all, especially the older stuff that had been posted a while back. So with that, I came up with a little game a while ago where I search for a random word (it could be just about anything) and listenread [...]
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