Band to Watch: San Diego's Crocodiles
Longtime friends trade in their dysfunctional punk past for a prettier noise-pop present.
By Matt Diehl 06.29.09 9:43 AM
"If you live there, then you slowly die." That's how Brandon Welchez, frontman and beat programmer for drone-pop duo Crocodiles, describes his band's hometown of San Diego. "A lot of the nastiness in our music comes from reacting to the boring culture there, and the sunshine," adds guitarist Charles Rowell. "The sunshine can be oppressive."
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Bye Bye Bogle: A Tribute to Surf-Rock Kings the Ventures
To honor guitarist Bob Bogle's death, SPIN's William Goodman revisits the band's influence on today's rock'n'rollers.
By WILLLIAM GOODMAN 06.18.09 10:58 AM
Surf, sun, and babes -- it's the California Dream. But its soundtrack was born in a much uglier place: a used car lot in rainy Tacoma, WA.
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