Peter, Bjorn & John You would have been either living on a desolate humanless island somewhere in the South Pacific or found a way onto one of those Space Tourism flights with astronauts to have escaped the Swine Flu like spreading of Peter, Bjorn & John’s “Young Folks”. And those fortunate enough to listen to […]
Blind Pilot Lo-fi, indie folk pop band Blind Pilot stopped at the Casbah Oct. 24 for a show with openers The Low Anthem. After the soundcheck, drummer Ryan Dobrowski gave us an interview to share insight on bike tours down the West Coast, playing in English beach towns and recording along the Columbia river. ==================================== […]
Pedro the Lion leader David Bazan began the tour for his new solo album Curse Your Branches earlier this month. Dave is joined by low-fi, indie pop band Say Hi!, his fellow labelmates on Barsuk Records. The tour kicked off October 1st in San Francisco and ends November 11th in Seattle. We caught an interview […]
In the corner of The Casbah’s billiards room, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s guitarist and vocalist Kip Berman sat down to talk about the Pains’ beginnings, Nirvana, colored vinyl and living the dream. The Pains stopped in San Diego Monday September 21st with openers Cymbals Eat Guitars and the Depreciation Guild. The Pains […]
With the new release of Era Extraña, Neon Indian is in the spotlight once again. Hailing from Denton in Texas, Alan Palomo from Mexico composes their music. He is also well-known throughout the music world for the work he has done with the band Ghosthunter and also as the artist Vega. ‘Psychic Chasms’ was the […]