Pebaluna

Pebaluna
"Carny Life"

*Local Record Review: 'This One's For Terminal Boredom' by Roman Candles
*Local Record Review: 'We Are Locally Grown' by Locally Grown Collective
*Local Records Review: 'Four Steps in Corsets' by Yellow Red Sparks

It seems that RX Bandits are getting as well known for their individual projects as much as their collective work and longevity. We recently profiled the continuing work of C-Gak, now there's a new band's debut album out with Matt Embree playing guitar and contributing vocals. But Pebaluna -- either a pun on Petaluma, some sort of moon rock reference, or both -- isn't just him or him as bandleader by any means, being essentially a new group with its own almost surprising appeal. Surprising, in that after another summer of Too Many Dully Obvious Indie Rock Records, it's always nice to hear something that simply works.
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Cham Kerem
Visions of the Sun
http://soundcloud.com/chamkerem-ninos-muertos

See Also:
*Local Record Review: 'Time' by Immortal Minds
*Local Record Review: 'We Are Locally Grown' by Locally Grown Collective
*Local Record Review: 'The Radical Era' by Sacred Blasphemy

The SanTana-based hip-hop collective of field warriors known as Cham Kerem are shining light on realities others would rather have remain in the dark. The five-member crew recently released their debut effort, Visions of the Sun, offering fourteen tracks (plus a bonus cut) of unrelenting, unapologetic rebel rhymes. Ghost Dance, iLLoheem, La Pavis, iLL Sal and Rethro hit up racism, police brutality and immigration interchanging bilingual lyrics all along the way.
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Détective
However Strange
http://www.detectivemusic.com/
See Also:
*Local Record Review: 'This One's For Terminal Boredom' by Roman Candles
*Local Record Review: 'We Are Locally Grown' by Locally Grown Collective
*Local Records Review: 'Four Steps in Corsets' by Yellow Red Sparks

This Saturday, a band called Détective plays a record release party at Burger Records in Fullerton -- and yes, that accent mark is very intentional. Given the group says that it's referring to one of Jean-Luc Godard's films, one could be forgiven for thinking the band's sound is some sort of ye-ye, French '60s pop tribute -- or maybe another riff on the combination of styles that Stereolab brought to bear. (And certainly the motorik chug of "Mouchette" comes notably close at points.)
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Cerebellion

See Also:
*Local Record Review: 'This One's For Terminal Boredom' by Roman Candles
*Local Record Review: 'We Are Locally Grown' by Locally Grown Collective
*Local Records Review: 'Four Steps in Corsets' by Yellow Red Sparks

Cerebellion
"A Better Version"
http://www.cerebellion1.com/

The show Cerebellion played last Saturday night at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa marked a bit of a change for the band -- it was last show featuring vocalist Joe Arnold, who will be moving on to other work while the band itself will be continuing on as it plans its followup to the 2010 album Inalienable. As a bit of a transitional teaser, last week the group released the final song they've recorded with him as a free download and YouTube track, "A Better Version":

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Locally Grown Collective
We Are Locally Grown
http://locgrwn.wix.com/lgcltv#!

In the city of Orange, the seeds of good hip-hop music are being sown by its hometown hustlers the Locally Grown Collective. Harvesting together their distinctive talents, Endz, DaveAllen, DeeJaeeBee, FourthBeats and Coley Cole have recently released their We Are Locally Grown mixtape on DatPiff offering listeners everything from underground hip-hop, neo-soul and spoken word poetry. 
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Yellow Red Sparks
Four Steps in Corsets
ORG Music
www.yellowredsparks.com

The pure poetry of singer-songwriter Josh Hanson is accentuated by tightly interwoven arrangements on Four Steps in Corsets, the debut EP from OC's premiere indie folk-rockers Yellow Red Sparks. Released by ORG Music, the reflective, melancholic tone of heartache throughout the album makes for a compelling listen. A trio of accomplished musicians with Goldy (drums/vocals) and Sara Lynn (upright bass, piano, vocals, banjo) accompanying Hanson, Yellow Red Sparks find all the right melodies and rhythms on all of the songs. A stripped down soul emerges from intricate musical tapestries.
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