Critic's Notebook

“I’ve been listening to NOFX since I was 13. My friends and I would skate to them.”

Happening throughout the Valley leading up to All Hallows Eve and on the holiday itself.

Talking gear with the MRCH drummer.

The spooky pop duo’s full-length debut is called Reactions.

On the musician’s post-Sonic Youth career.

Call it emotional pop, minimal art, “dreamy dream dream,” whatever.

Gilgongo, Fervor, and more.

Costumes are very much encouraged.

“I always knew that you can’t go back to something, but sometimes things from your past can come around to your future.”

Talking gear in this week’s Pound for the Sound.

It all started at an open mic night.

And finally letting her hair down.

The photo guy and I brainstormed about the best way to approach this important piece of investigative journalism. “Let’s just drive over there,” I said. “They’re psychics. They already know we’re coming.”

“Let’s raise the stoke level right through the fucking ceiling.”

“And pickles so huge.”

Including Danzig, Paramore, and Otonana Trio.

“They’ve got fire in their eyes, hunger in their bellies and great big shoes on their feet!”

Here’s what happened at the band’s University of Phoenix concert.

Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd have sampled them. For good reason.

For starters, it’s this weekend.

They’re playing The Van Buren this week with KOLARS, Bear Ghost, and Luxxe.

He left behind a staggering body of work as one of the songwriters for Midwestern alt-rock icons.