Young Hunting with Exploding Flowers at the Echo, 11/22/10

Young Hunting

Though short, it was so

Sweet - their vocal harmonies

Are like aural drugs.

Exploding Flowers

Rare and welcome are

Effortlessly confident

And tight sets like this

Dustin Wong at Vacation Vinyl, 11/19/10

King of palimpsests!

Tech skills to behold whilst he

Builds a symphony.

LA Font with Oh Darlin' at the Echo, 11/15/10

Oh Darlin'

It saddens me that

I only hear commercials

In their repertoire.

LA Font

Solidifying

A reputation of raw

Indie aptitude

Sneaky Snake (live-scoring Predator II) at The Night Gallery, 11/14/10

A marathon set:

Poetic impressions and

Apocalypse cries.

Woodsman, Speculator and Melted Toys at Bacchus, 11/13/10

Speculator

Distorted sunbeam

Targeting and warming the

Night's darker corners.

Melted Toys

Interesting to

See a band fighting a sound

So many bands grow.

Woodsman

The sheer momentum

Of drumming OR their gorgeous

Sound pallet. Both slayed.

Gestapo Khazi at Vacation Vinyl, 11/12/10

On a clear mission -

They cut right to the point with

Clean execution.

Axel at Axel's House in Downtown, 11/11/10

The memory of

What it's like to be under

Water in the sun.

Harassor, Expo 70, and Sean McCann at F-HAUS, 11/7/10

Sean McCann

Like being birthed or

Digested through the body

Of a live spacecraft.

Expo 70

His guitar recalled

Dark alley black leather of

Climate of Hunter.

Harassor

It's rare to witness

Depth like theirs born from such a

Punkish energy

Trans Am at Spaceland, 11/5/10

Methinks beneath those

Complex layers of metal

And prog, three jazz nerds.

Young Hunting at Origami Vinyl, 11/5/10

Worth the time it took

For them to perfect their mix -

All their soundz were gold.

Deerhunter and High Places at the Henry Fonda Music Box, 11/1/10

High Places

Emotionless, they

Continued to cultivate

My ambivalence.

Deerhunter

Sunbeam of a voice

A spotlight o'er an ocean

Of heavy drumming.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy with the Cairo Gang and J. Tillman at Pappy & Harriet's, 10/30/10

J. Tillman

The earnest rev'rence

Of silence between notes, paired

With crazy lyrics.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang

It leaves one at a

Loss, trying to convey his

Folksy voodoo charm.