The Happy Hollows are coming out with a new EP, Imaginary , on October 21. I cannot for the life of me find where to purchase it, try as I may, but you are more resourceful than me and I bet you'll figure it out. In the meanwhile, here's two tracks off the coming EP and an older video to boot. The video is pretty lo-fi, but when I see those girls in those red-and-white-striped knee socks, jumping around to the beat of that jangly guitar, I know something good is happening, and it gives me a warm fuzzy [...]

Download: Paperplanes 'Honky Tonk' Download: Henry Clay People 'Andy Sings!' Download: Happy Hollows 'Lieutenant' Thanks to Ashley for the reminder— great show at Alex's Bar in Long Beach tonight . If I wasn't fearful of resicking, [...]
Cruel Black Dove, file under Sublime Gothic. Brooklyn via way of Los Angeles. Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over [The Clapp Remix]

It was pretty startling to me that, after listening to only one track from The Happy Hollows , I was able to draw comparisons to nearly every single notable indie-rock band fronted by a woman in the past several years. Now, before you jump to any premature conclusions by declaring instantaneous comparisons to be a sign of unoriginality and a lack of ambition on the band's part, take a , listen to "Lieutenant". From Kim Gordon (01:06) to Karen O (01:41) and even Deerhoof's Satomi Matsuzaki (03:52), it is easy enough to draw up some prevalent similarities on [...]
Wonder Ballroom bar during MusicFestNW.. The New Music Hour on Portland's 94.7FM is dedicated to bringing listeners music, both local and national, that they may not normally hear on the station. I'm on air with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Tuesday September 16. Fujiya & Miyagi - Uh The [...]

This past Tuesday, my pal and fellow music writer Travis Woods and another LA music writer Mouse hosted the first of many celebrations of the local-to-them Silver Lake music scene, a little shindig with solo performances from the lead singers of local bands they called My Little Underground . The list of performers was a whos-who of the scene, including Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event , Andrew Spitser of Radars to the Sky , Timothy James of the Movies , Sarah Negahdari of the Happy Hollows , and Evan [...]

All photos by David Greenwald Opening for the Ruby Suns and Architecture in Helsinki , Los Angeles band the Happy Hollows played a pretty likable set of punky, spastic indie-pop. More photos and an MP3 after the jump. [Continue reading...] The Happy Hollows - "Monster Room": [...]
All week long I've been anxiously on the lookout for the magic moment when the SXSW Music and Media Conference posts its list of artist bios and mp3s for this year's festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 11-16. I've just spent seven hours poring over the list and compiled my own list of the 286 artists I liked best. Some of them don't really fit here, but I've got a hunch you're going
That flu bug got to us pretty hard this week and therefore it's taking longer than expected to get back into the thick of things. You know you're out of it when you wake up with the earplugs you put in the night before. We did check out many of the residencies this week... Good to see Radar Bros. after many years. We Barbarians are bringing the buzz that they ended 2007 with to the SLL and late
Back in October, RC was introduced to The Deadly Syndrome, and quickly deemed them one of our "Fresh Faced Artists." Jumping forward six months, The Deadly Syndrome have raced ahead of the pack and are, in my humble opinion, the best band currently playing in LA. While their four song EP made for a tasty appetizer, I wasn't prepared to knight them as the real deal until I
The Happy Hollows [MP3] The Happy Hollows - Vietnam I have found so many tremendous female fronted bands in the past few weeks that I've decided to start a new feature on Rock Insider called "Chicks Who Freakin' Rock." First up in the series: Sarah Negahdari of The Los Angeles' based rock trio The Happy Hollows . I first stumbled across The Happy Hollows back in [...]
The greatness of this band has been witnessed by many this past year but has only come to be fully realized by us after a show in the LBC recently. We've always said that it's not how well you perform in the big, crowded clubs that prove how good you are, but how well you do in the smaller, less attended ones that matter. After seeing a bit of the Happy Hollows do some Central Second nights at

Anyone who follows the indie rock scene in this great city knows the guys in Division Day. Super nice and even more talented, they are worth rooting for. They have been written up in the NY Times and every blog ever . Their songs are catchy, fun and full of keyboards and they have finally been given the honor of Monday Night Residency at Spaceland. Tonight will be their second stint and they will be joined by Great Northern , Peter Walker and The [...]