WEDNESDAY SEP 21, 2016
DTCV
DTCV (PRONOUNCED DTCV - STANDS FOR DTCV) was born late at night at a party in the Hollywood Hills mansion of a film producer, where Lola G., French musician in the L.A. stoner/garage scene met novelist, screenwriter and guitarist James Greer. Uninterested in mingling with celebrities and bored with the dildo collection in the living room, Lola and James started a conversation about Super-Fuzz pedals and the imminent worldwide collapse of the capitalist paradigm and decided to form a band, named DTCV for willfully obscurantist reasons.
With both Lola and James as songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, DTCV quickly had enough songs to record several albums. A first EP, BASKET OF MASKS, was recorded in the Oakland warehouse of garage prodigy Greg Ashley (The Gris-Gris, King Khan), followed by the album HOWEVER STRANGE released on Burger Records in 2012.
After a year of touring, they released HILARIOUS HEAVEN (Xemu Records, 2013), an ambitious double album recorded by stoner legend Steve Kille of Dead Meadow. Later that year, a radical life change and desire to escape the domesticated world took them to the Mojave desert, where they settled in a Joshua Tree cabin and now live as desert hermits.
Desert life inspired the album UPTIME! which came out on Xemu and Lolipop Records (cassette) following THE EARLY YEAR, a comp of their early EPs/singles released by Mock Records in 2014.
In 2015, while listening to Clifton Chenier’s French Zydeco and the Nouvelle-Vague-inspired Brian Jonestown Massacre album Musique de film imaginé, Lola felt an urge to write songs in her native tongue and the resulting album CONFUSION MODERNE was recorded with psych guru Joel Jerome. CONFUSION MODERNE is a mix of classic French pop, garage, 60s yé-yé, and DTCV’s own signature post-punk inflections that the band likes to call “Françoise Hardy fronting Buzzcocks.” The album is entirely written by Lola in French (with the exception of Greer’s corruscating screed against the domestication of rock “We Aren’t the Champions”) and deals largely, if obliquely, with her anti-capitalist, neo-anarchist, and pro-environmental concerns.
DTCV will tour most of 2016 in support of CONFUSION MODERNE.
Anarcho-symbolist rock
DTCV (PRONOUNCED DTCV - STANDS FOR DTCV) was born late at night at a party in the Hollywood Hills mansion of a film producer, where Lola G., French musician in the L.A. stoner/garage scene met novelist, screenwriter and guitarist James Greer. Uninterested in mingling with celebrities and bored with the dildo collection in the living room, Lola and James started a conversation about Super-Fuzz pedals and the imminent worldwide collapse of the capitalist paradigm and decided to form a band, named DTCV for willfully obscurantist reasons.
With both Lola and James as songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, DTCV quickly had enough songs to record several albums. A first EP, BASKET OF MASKS, was recorded in the Oakland warehouse of garage prodigy Greg Ashley (The Gris-Gris, King Khan), followed by the album HOWEVER STRANGE released on Burger Records in 2012.
After a year of touring, they released HILARIOUS HEAVEN (Xemu Records, 2013), an ambitious double album recorded by stoner legend Steve Kille of Dead Meadow. Later that year, a radical life change and desire to escape the domesticated world took them to the Mojave desert, where they settled in a Joshua Tree cabin and now live as desert hermits.
Desert life inspired the album UPTIME! which came out on Xemu and Lolipop Records (cassette) following THE EARLY YEAR, a comp of their early EPs/singles released by Mock Records in 2014.
In 2015, while listening to Clifton Chenier’s French Zydeco and the Nouvelle-Vague-inspired Brian Jonestown Massacre album Musique de film imaginé, Lola felt an urge to write songs in her native tongue and the resulting album CONFUSION MODERNE was recorded with psych guru Joel Jerome. CONFUSION MODERNE is a mix of classic French pop, garage, 60s yé-yé, and DTCV’s own signature post-punk inflections that the band likes to call “Françoise Hardy fronting Buzzcocks.” The album is entirely written by Lola in French (with the exception of Greer’s corruscating screed against the domestication of rock “We Aren’t the Champions”) and deals largely, if obliquely, with her anti-capitalist, neo-anarchist, and pro-environmental concerns.
DTCV will tour most of 2016 in support of CONFUSION MODERNE.
Twin Studies
"Twin Studies started out as the solo bedroom recording project of Jay Stanley in late 2012. The project grew to a four piece in 2013 after Stanley enlisted the help of other local musicians and friends to complete a live lineup, and released their debut EP, Precious Places, the following year. In 2015 the band released two songs, “Attic Room” and “Space Girl.” After a complete change of musicians except for Stanley in 2016, Twin Studies is now releasing a new record. For this song, we were specifically chasing much more involved guitar melodies while still maintaining a wall of sound and a driving rhythm. This song is the best representation of the rest of the songs on the release because it combines and distills elements of all of them – floating pop riffs, droning guitars, and lush synths." -New Noise Mag
"Twin Studies started out as the solo bedroom recording project of Jay Stanley in late 2012. The project grew to a four piece in 2013 after Stanley enlisted the help of other local musicians and friends to complete a live lineup, and released their debut EP, Precious Places, the following year. In 2015 the band released two songs, “Attic Room” and “Space Girl.” After a complete change of musicians except for Stanley in 2016, Twin Studies is now releasing a new record. For this song, we were specifically chasing much more involved guitar melodies while still maintaining a wall of sound and a driving rhythm. This song is the best representation of the rest of the songs on the release because it combines and distills elements of all of them – floating pop riffs, droning guitars, and lush synths." -New Noise Mag
Fake Flowers
Indie rock trio Fake Flowers plays lush, propulsive pop songs, combining elements of shoegaze, post-punk, surf, and psychedelia. With guitars both fuzzy and jangly, a grooving rhythm section, and layers of dreamy vocal harmonies, the band could easily fall into late 80's/early 90's college-radio rotation but emphatically and refreshingly retools the styles of its forebears.
Indie rock trio Fake Flowers plays lush, propulsive pop songs, combining elements of shoegaze, post-punk, surf, and psychedelia. With guitars both fuzzy and jangly, a grooving rhythm section, and layers of dreamy vocal harmonies, the band could easily fall into late 80's/early 90's college-radio rotation but emphatically and refreshingly retools the styles of its forebears.