Betty's continues to be the place to get your stuff-that's-noisy fix. This Saturday features the touring combo of San Fransisco's Work and Piles. The former takes the gritty lo-fi you've come to love from the likes of Times New Viking and Wavves but focuses the style more toward skronk than melody. Piles take a similar path, albeit an electronic one, and with a bit more penchant for that melody stuff. I tried to find YouTube footage or anything like that, but those band names aren't parti
I'm not sure how many of you have ever been to the "twin cities" of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. I spent five years there and can tell you it's a fairly sleepy college town with cobblestone streets, cheap rent, lots of house parties and bands to play them. Hum, Poster Children, Mother (name changed later to Menthol) and Hardvark all signed to major labels within months of each other during the feeding frenzy of the mid-'90s, spurred in part by an article in Interview that called C-U "t
Look not into the camera, lest it steal your soul.Sure, we could have thrown this item in with our last post about The Features, but it's neither particularly golden nor is it especially a nugget. It's just a bit of deserved national praise for our hometown faves. While I don't especially agree with Paste's list of similar artists--Franz Ferdinand, The Whigs and Kings of Leon--it's a nice little write-up with loads of props to Smyrna:
"I grew up listening to mostly British music, to be h
