Email Author CHRIS ZIEGLER

2013 Stories by CHRIS ZIEGLER

• Parson Red Heads

  published June 6, 2013

  The Parson Red Heads were one of LA’s much-loved indie/folkie-type bands until they moved to Portland, leaving their hometown fans to pine... More >>

• The Kids

  published May 30, 2013

  The Kids were punk stormers of the highest order, blowing through their native Belgium in the late '70s with high-speed, high-intensity songs that... More >>

• Gal Musette

  published May 30, 2013

  Gal Musette is somewhere in her early teens, but if ever somebody had an old soul, it’s her. Raised on the Magnetic Fields by an especially... More >>

• Dave Davies

  published May 30, 2013

  The Kinks’ Dave Davies came up with one of the greatest sounds for one of the greatest riffs ever—and had song after secret song stuck... More >>

• Shannon and the Clams

  published May 23, 2013

  Shannon and the Clams are the Oakland band that’s here to break hearts and maybe break bottles, depending if the hearts got broken all the... More >>

• Mobb Deep 20th Anniversary

  published May 16, 2013

  Behold the return of the Infamous! Queensbridge's Mobb Deep were the two “killer kids who just don’t care” whose bleaked-out,... More >>

• Zero Zero

  published May 9, 2013

  Arizona’s Love Me Nots have been hammering away at their own Rezillos-esque pop-punk-garage for a good few years now, but last year half the... More >>

• Patton Oswalt

  published May 2, 2013

  We’d say Patton Oswalt is the Jonathen Lethem of comedy right now, but we like Oswalt better than Lethem—he’s a polymath for the... More >>

• The Scream Contest

  published April 18, 2013

  Hollerin’ is a grand American tradition—isn’t yelling super-loud the first thing protected in the bill of rights?—and... More >>

• The Make-Up

  published April 11, 2013

  The Make-Up’s frontman Ian Svenonius applies Kim Fowley-ian acumen to a Julian Cope-ian command of global music history and sings in bands... More >>

• Merle Haggard

  published April 4, 2013

  Let’s just cut right to some of the brightest news so far in 2013: Merle Haggard just got an honorary doctorate from Cal State University... More >>

• Air Dubai

  published March 28, 2013

  Denver’s Air Dubai grew their emphatically hooky version of Flobots or Gym Class Heroes-style hip-hoppy radio pop from Macbook demos to an... More >>

• Burgerama Day 1

  published March 21, 2013

  So two weeks ago Burger basically took over the world—did you miss the Burger Revolution on March 8? With coordinated shows all over planet... More >>

• La Boite Funk (Musique Nonstop)

  published March 14, 2013

  Modern Disco Ambassadors like to call their new La Boite Funk night “dance floor therapy”—and when you’re lining up deeply... More >>

• The Vespertines

  published March 14, 2013

  Long Beach’s Vespertines do prickly prog-psych in a way that teaches you to expect the unexpected—and to expect the introspective, the... More >>

• Green Day

  published March 7, 2013

  During the last six months, Green Day released one full-length album with a portrait of each band member on the cover—take that, Kiss circa... More >>

• The Groves Antique Market

  published February 28, 2013

  Digging for treasure at the antique swap is like digging for treasure anywhere else—the first person to break ground gets the good stuff,... More >>

• Method Man

  published February 28, 2013

  Wu Tang are gonna play Coachella, so maybe this comparatively intimate evening with the M.E.T.H.O.D. Man is your last chance for months to see the... More >>

• Blackfeet Braves

  published February 28, 2013

  LA band Blackfeet Braves have just released a full-length on local label Lollipop, and it's 12 tracks of Standells/Seeds-style garage that really... More >>

• CJ Ramone

  published February 21, 2013

  CJ Ramone is the former Marine who took over for bassist Dee Dee Ramone during that last zig-zaggy seven years of what was basically the... More >>

• Ramona Falls

  published February 21, 2013

  Brent Knopf was the polymath co-founder of Portland’s Menomena, the impressively (or was that intimidatingly?) creative band that would... More >>

• Harlem Globetrotters

  published February 14, 2013

  The Harlem Globetrotters are some gutsy guys—saving the gang from ghost pirates in Scooby Doo, saving the universe from temporal dissolution... More >>

• The Hives

  published February 14, 2013

  Rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t need saving, but it can always use another shot of adrenalin. That’s where the Hives come in. Their... More >>

• Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival

  published February 7, 2013

  Once a year, the shops and sidewalks of Long Beach’s Belmont Shore are stacked with even more sweet treats than usual. So welcome... More >>

• Nashville Pussy

  published January 31, 2013

  “Born to die in a rock ‘n’ roll band!” says title track on Nashville Pussy’s redone From Hell To Texas, and you know... More >>