Surfer Blood and Cayucas deliver vibrant double-bill at LA’s Teragram Ballroom

Surfer Blood and Cayucas deliver vibrant double-bill at LA’s Teragram Ballroom
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
January 11, 2016

Headlining in support of their third studio album 1000 Palms, a reshuffled Surfer Blood lineup impressed at the Teragram Ballroom with fellow surf-pop rockers Cayucas in support.

Their beach rock sound was welcomed happily on a gloomy Friday night in downtown Los Angeles. Guitarist Thomas Fekete and bassist Kevin Williams are no longer in the band – Fekete battles a rare form of cancer while Williams left the group for a job – but their replacements Mike McCleary and Lindsey Mills proved ample replacements. Mills’ duties as a backup vocalist provided an alternative layer to some of lead man’s John Paul Pitts’ sometimes Rivers Cuomo-type vocals quite nicely.

Click here to read the rest...

Day one of Shaky Knees rattles with The Strokes, Mastodon, Kaiser Chiefs and more

Day one of Shaky Knees rattles with The Strokes, Mastodon, Kaiser Chiefs and more
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
May 9, 2015

It takes a music festival like Shaky Knees to really put into perspective what makes bigger festivals like Coachella sometimes annoying to deal with.

The much smaller rock-driven Atlanta music festival brought a laid-back vibe from the outset and didn’t lose that momentum when The Strokes took the stage at 9:45 PM to play 70 really strong minutes.

Click here to read the rest...