Email Author CHRIS ZIEGLER

2010 Stories by CHRIS ZIEGLER

• Rumspringa

  published August 12, 2010

  LA’s Rumspringa have been plugging around for a few years now, recently enlarging from a duo exploring a blues-meets-post-punk style... More >>

• How Ariel Pink Got His Groove Back

  published August 5, 2010

  This is Ariel Pink’s year. Actually, 2004 was Ariel Pink’s year, but not enough people knew. That was the year he paused his... More >>

• The Donnas

  published August 5, 2010

  How young we were—can you remember when they were just four girls in t-shirts putting out 45s in cheesy sleeves? Now the Donnas... More >>

• Young the Giant

  published July 29, 2010

  Formerly local and still locally sympathetic pop-garage band Young The Giant used to be the Jakes, but new names make new friends and new songs... More >>

• Dick Dale

  published July 22, 2010

  Everyone knows that Dick Dale has a guitar—but Dick Dale also has (at last report) Mustangs and Arabians—the horses—and surfing... More >>

• MGMT

  published July 15, 2010

  An erudite man called them ‘art people,’ and even though the music world knows them more as chart people, the dudes in Sparks-rock band... More >>

• Pato Banton

  published July 8, 2010

  Reggae singer Pato Banton spent everything he had finishing his landmark 1987 album Never Give In. He jettisoned food, shelter and utilities for... More >>

• El Topo

  published July 1, 2010

  MOLAA goes beyond the beyond with this outdoor nighttime screening of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s mind-debriding psychopompic... More >>

• Vincent van Gogh: The Man and the Myth

  published July 1, 2010

  “I want more love and more soul and more heart!” wrote Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch painter too often called a rock star when he should... More >>

• But I'm a Cheerleader

  published June 24, 2010

  Director Jamie Babbitt’s 1999 debut is the story of Megan the cheerleader who gets sent to de-gay-ification camp (with counselor RuPaul out... More >>

• Portugal. The Man Keep the Budget Low, But Their Spirits High

  published June 17, 2010

  When Portugal. The Man first arrived in the lower 48—they’re from the same town in Alaska that delivered to the world Sarah Palin,... More >>

• The Cool Kids

  published June 17, 2010

  URB called them “purist hip-hop,” which is a much nicer way to put it than “throwback,” and also says something more... More >>

• Salif Keita

  published June 10, 2010

  Afro-pop singer Salif Keita started out with Mali’s railroad-sponsored funk-pop band—the Super Rail Band de Bamako, organized by the... More >>

• Regeneration Opening

  published June 3, 2010

  OCCCA’s new show “Regeneration” is tied explicitly to stem-cell therapy—in honor on UCI’s new stem-cell research... More >>

• Why?

  published May 27, 2010

  So Yoni Wolf used to be a rapper? Well, kind of—Anticon put out the records, but Wolf’s Why? and Clouddead always played with... More >>

• Sweethead: Blood And Rockets

  published May 20, 2010

  Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen learned a lot when he joined Queens of the Stone Age. Like, never waste more than five takes trying to tape a song,... More >>

• Green Long Beach! Festival 2010

  published May 20, 2010

  It’s “green” the verb as much as “green” the adjective at the Green Long Beach! Festival, where locals come together for... More >>

• Artsist Lecture: Felipe Ehrenberg

  published May 13, 2010

  Mexico City’s Felipe Ehrenberg started out as a printmaker but would soon win notice as one of Mexico’s foremost postmodernists and an... More >>

• Heavy Water Experiments

  published May 13, 2010

  LA’s Heavy Water Experiments like to think of themselves as “Pink Sabbath”—or at least talk about the idea a lot in... More >>

• Bird Mad Girl

  published May 13, 2010

  Bird Mad Girl cover Supergrass but make it sound like the Pagans or the Sonics—and when they do their own song “Psycho” they make... More >>

• Black Apples March to the Beat of Double Drummers

  published May 6, 2010

  Before Campbell Scarborough was a drummer—and also a guitarist and a singer, or rather, a singing drummer who figured out exactly how to... More >>

• Rock the Runway

  published May 6, 2010

  It’s not quite a million-dollar event, but it’s damn close: this year’s Rock the Runway at Santa Ana’s Art Institute of... More >>

• Eclectic Music Concert #46

  published April 22, 2010

  Some call it dream pop but for the Year Zero it’s a visionary state. Singer Lili De La Mora steps past Mazzy Star and Young Marble toward... More >>

• Orange County Noir

  published April 22, 2010

  James Cain had Mildred Pierce set up in Laguna Beach, John Fante got Bandini lost in the desert in what would probably become the 5 freeway, and... More >>

• Thavius Beck: Hip-Hop Classic

  published April 15, 2010

  When producer and MC Thavius Beck arrived in LA as a 16-year-old kid, he stepped off the bus (just like Axl in “Welcome to the... More >>