Email Author Troy Farah

2013 Stories by Troy Farah

• No Volcano @ Crescent Ballroom

  published June 20, 2013

  It's almost like a local indie supergroup! No Volcano features Colorstore guitarist Jeremy Randall, bassist Jake Sevier of Letdownright and... More >>

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  Fried: Chow Bella Writers Tell Stories of Food and Heat

  published June 13, 2013

  DRIVE-THRU by Katie Johnson "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?" I'm 7 years old and I'm... More >>

• The Thermals @ Crescent Ballroom

  published June 6, 2013

  Didn't think apocalyptic chic could translate into an existential-blend blink-182? Think again. The Thermals swirl your Interpol with Ted Leo... More >>

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Addresses the Specter at the Feast Head-On

  published May 23, 2013

  Like the volumes of Edgar Allan Poe and Allen Ginsberg that inspire Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's dark lyrical oeuvre, Robert Levon Been's... More >>

• Man-Cat Breaks Up with Taylor Swift So That You Can Too

  published May 16, 2013

  Taylor Swift has always devoted herself to her fans. Now she has a brand-spanking-new website that allows you to break up with... More >>

• Man or Astro-Man? @ Crescent Ballroom

  published May 9, 2013

  Everyone is aware you're all hopped up because Neutral Milk Hotel is reuniting for the first time since Jesus fed the 5,000 and because Boards... More >>

• Black Mountain's Stephen McBean Fronts a Lot of Bands, Is Influenced by Even More

  published May 2, 2013

  Sporting a scraggly beard, greasy hair covering his eyes, Vancouver's Stephen McBean could almost be the last living member of a tribe of... More >>

• Big Surf Waterpark Hosts a Rave of Global Proportions

  published April 25, 2013

  Electrical currents and water don't mix — just ask '70s-era singer Claude François, sometimes lauded as the French answer to the... More >>

• Adder @ Yucca Tap Room

  published April 18, 2013

  If you know someone who gets so excited about jewelry and new shoes that they write songs about them, is your acquaintance A) a Scottsdale... More >>

• Polica @ Rhythm Room

  published April 11, 2013

  In an interview with Rolling Stone, Justin Vernon, the reclusive mind behind Bon Iver, said Poliça is the best band... More >>

• Synth-Poppers Vial of Sound Are Living in Analog

  published April 11, 2013

  We're living in the golden age of musical fetishism. Call it the byproduct of Jack White's obsessively vinyl/analog warpath or call it... More >>

• Phoenix @ Marquee Theatre

  published April 4, 2013

  With Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix's breakthrough into the public eye (don't you dare say mainstream, hipster),... More >>

• Beach House Has Some Beef with Volkswagen

  published April 4, 2013

  Following the success of last year's Bloom, an album that landed on many year-end lists, you could say that Baltimore's Beach... More >>

• Parenthetical Girls Aren't Lacking for Kinks

  published March 7, 2013

  It's not easy being beautiful. Just ask Zac Pennington, frontman of experimental pop group Parenthetical Girls, whose vocal strains fall... More >>

• Red Rocks Folk Band decker. Defines Itself with Slider

  published February 28, 2013

  "We're changed people," Brandon Decker says firmly, describing the aftermath of the nearly fatal rollover car accident that forever altered the... More >>

• Sea Wolf Doesn't Fall Into Americana Revival Traps

  published January 24, 2013

  The indie-folk movement has become a plague. What started as an innocent return to roots quickly became a fad and, somewhere along the line,... More >>