It finally happened. Winter arrived. Snow fell and we woke up this past Sunday with about three inches of the stuff. I'm glad it didn't arrive earlier, as Friday saw me at KSVR for a four hour stint of music. The first two hours flirted with folk music and the latter half was full-on garage rock, garage pop and psychedelic pop. Much of the 10 to midnight show came courtesy Finest Kiss , who posted some great 2011 lists. Taking [...]
Excellent choices to kick off your holiday weekend: ► Veteran Aussie quartet You Am I , still going strong after two-plus decades, kick off a U.S. tour behind their new, self-titled album, their ninth. They play the Echo, with L.A. quintet Terraplane Sun opening. ► Long-running Club Underground moves from the Echo to the Grand Star in Chinatown, celebrating its new digs tonight with live sets from L.A. indie-poppers Sweater Girls , whose new album is on the way from Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, and labelmates Eureka California [...]
SF Popfest 's modest yet powerful sense of community rang true during Thursday's festivities, when Dominant Legs were joined by Aberdeen , the Motifs , and Sweater Girls at Cafe du Nord . If you search the internet for information on Aberdeen, you'll find that the band is a) described as "twee pop," and b) described in the past tense. And yet, lead singer Beth Arzy stood in front of her audience at du Nord on Thursday, screaming "Don't fucking call me twee!" as the band played a full set. Their own [...]
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, [...]
Vivian Girls @ Part Time Punks SHOW RECAP: Vivian Girls/Sweater Girls 5/1/11 For Part Time Punks , the indie pop purveyors whose long-running Sunday night shows have become a weekly tradition for many Los Angeles music fans, the pairing of Shangri-Las-obsessed former punkers VIVIAN GIRLS with like minded local act SWEATER GIRL S was a no-brainer. Not only do both bands sport the same reverby female vocals and hazy, C86-inspired sound, they're both, y'know, "Girls" groups. Although the show's flyers, which portray two fierce [...]
My Pet Saddle Recommended Shows :: April 25th – May 1st Monday, April 25th Nick Curran and The Lowlifes @ Spike's Bar and Billiards (Rosemead) J Irvin Dally @ J Lounge Chris Robinson Brotherhood @ Echoplex Frank Fairfield @ The Redwood Bar The Head & the Heart with The Devil Whale @ Troubadour Tuesday, April 26th SPECTRUM (Sonic Boom/Spaceman 3) @ Troubadour [...]
The HHBTM team has sent me two lovely little packages in the past few months, the second of which arrived just last week. I figured it was high time to give them coverage... in list form! HHBTM, if you're not familiar with the label, is short from Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, and they've releases several favorites over the year; bands like Patience Please , Fishboy , The Superions , Bunnygrunt [...]
\ Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing Recommended Shows :: February 28th – March 6th Monday, February 28th J. Tillman with Jenny O. @ Bootleg Theater Eulogies with Family of the Year @ Bardot Tuesday, March 1st Arbouretum with Endless Boogie @ The Satellite Wednesday, March 2nd Swans with Wooden Wand and Devendra Banhart @ El Rey [...]
SWEATER GIRLS AND NEVEREVER ON FRIDAY MAR. 4TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $8/ 18+
I've been contemplating doing something for Valentine's Day for years, and I finally settled on something good - a massive post packed with great singles from the past. Seems fitting, being the romantic holiday can be a bit alienating for the single person. Or that the seemingly comfy nature of the 7-inch single, with two (well, typically, with an occasional three or four) great songs placed back to back and stuffed in a typically well-designed sleeve, is a bit romantic in and of itself. So for the past few weeks, [...]
THE B-NOIRS, THE SWEATER GIRLS, AND INGENUE ON SUNDAY FEB. 6TH AT THE REDWOOD BAR, 316 WEST SECOND STREET, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ $5/ 21+
In his review of the new Sweater Girls single the Heaven is Above Your Head blog brought up how the drums in their songs could possible be the worst ever in the recorded history of pop. For some reason that made me laugh. I wouldn't go so far as to say that they are the worst ever maybe a bit monochomatic but I think that adds to their charm. They're kind of fluffy and fuzzy like a frayed polyester sweater of the vintage type. Probably found in some junk shop having been [...]
Tweet Cool In A Crisis is a new London-based cassette tape label run by people who previously were involved in great clubnights like Baby Honey and Twee As F**k. The label-name comes from one of the DIY-signs The Pooh Sticks used on stage at their 2010 Indietracks-performance, and if I may add, - it really fits, because this is a really cool project, crisis or not. Every release is a split EP, featuring a band on either side. There will [...]
The evening started out innocently enough. The Sweater Girls brought a self styled naivety to their diary entry turned song book style of twee pop, reminiscent of Comet Gain or Tiger Trap. With a warm charm and a calculated chastity, Sweater Girls could thaw the chilliest of the jaded. They apparently have a new 7-inch out, which should more than satisfy the singles club. Part Time Punk's Michael Stock appropriately paired his DJ set list for the evening with treasured obscurities from indie pop groups such as Trixie's Big Red Motorbike and The Field Mice. It is so [...]
Athens, Georgia label Happy Happy Birthday To Me reaches across the continent to pluck the Sweater Girls from sunny warm Los Angeles, California. Having lived in SoCal, I know that you don't really need many sweaters living there. Although after living there for a while, the body acclimatizes, the blood thins and you end up thinking you're cold when it's 75 degrees because you're used to 80. That five degree difference is bone-chilling and a sweater can be just the thing. Being that it's summer you probably don't need a sweater [...]
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Sweater Girls are a new Los Angeles-based group and, according to Mike over at Happy Happy Birthday To Me , their debut 73 single sold out solely based on word-of-mouth. Listening to the three songs tucked within, it's easy to hear why - Sweater Girls produce outstanding indie pop music perfect for the HHBTM label, and perfect for everyone's favorite musical consumption format... vinyl. Sweater Girls isn't an all-girl group, as the name might suggest (Joseph Teran is on lead guitar, backed by Allan Kingdom on bass), [...]
L.A.'s Sweater Girls (and boys) Much like I attempted back 2008, I'm am again going to try to highlight as many bands playing the NYC Popfest this year — especially the ones that are new to me — as I can before the Popfest starts! I'll be moving through the lineups chronologically, so first up will be Sweater Girls from Los Angeles, California! To my slight surprise, Sweater Girls are not all girls and are infact 2/5 boys (one of which is former Siddeley Allan Kingdom!). [...]
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