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Mixing African and Middle Eastern influences as well as a hazy hint of guitar-based Traditional western pop, the LA world-pop outfit Fool’s Gold produce music that’s as glittery and beguiling as their moniker suggests, though not nearly as disingenuous. Spearheaded by bassist/vocalist Luke Best and Lewis Pesacov, both indigenous Israelis …

The L.A.-structured psych-rock quartet Darker My Love was shaped by senior high school buddies Tim Presley (guitars, vocals) and Andy Granelli (drums) in 2001. Originally, it had been a side task — Presley and Granelli had been playing in various other punk-influenced rings (both played within the Nerve Agencies jointly, …

Rogue Influx formed in 2002 whenever a newly unemployed Zach Rogue remaining his SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA home, visited close friends in NEW YORK, and returned to California with nearly a complete album’s well worth of textured, cerebral indie pop. Rogue after that stop his post in his earlier group, …

Although located in LA, the shoegaze/indie rock-band Foreign Blessed actually formed many hundred mls north, where singer Matt Popieluch moved along with guitarist Lewis Pesacov after both friends graduated from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA State University in 2003. A jam program in a friend’s going-away party spawned the thought of …