Friday night in Hollywood, the Raveonettes played to a fairly full house at the Henry Fonda Theatre. Support came from local BTW Crocodiles who performed as a quartet, down a drum machine and up a drummer. Andrew Youssef was on... CONTINUE READING THE RAVEONETTES/CROCODILES @ HENRY FONDA THEATER, HOLLYWOOD 11/13/09»
Posted on November 16, 2009 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Crocodiles | Golden Silvers | The Raveonettes
Art Fag, the tiny label that recently brought us Ye Olde Maid's God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us is about to deliver a very solid 4-way split 7" between the recently Sub Popped Dum Dum Girls, BTW Crocodiles, PENS, and... CONTINUE READING NEW CROCODILES & GRAFFITI ISLAND FROM ART FAG 4-WAY SPLIT»
Posted on July 22, 2009 in (7 comments)
Tags: Crocodiles | Graffiti Island | HEALTH
This past weekend was all about the USA, and nothing says America quite like a day full of shitgaze in a graffitied, degenerated yard under some train tracks in Bushwick (or "East Williamsburg," if your real estate agent is shady).... CONTINUE READING WOODSIST/CAPTURED TRACKS FEST @ 979 BROADWAY BACKYARD, BROOKLYN 7/4/09»
Posted on July 6, 2009 in , , (6 comments)
Tags: Beach Fossils | Blank Dogs | Crocodiles | Crystal Stilts | Dum Dum Girls | Ganglians | Kurt Vile | Real Estate | The Beets | The German Measles | Vivian Girls | Woods
San Diego JAMC and MJ-digging BTW, Dum Dum Girls collaborators, and all around harworkers Crocodiles have a new video for their Summer Of Hate title track. (Yes, just in time for your summer of hate.) It was directed by Christin... CONTINUE READING NEW CROCODILES VIDEO - "SUMMER OF HATE"»
Posted on June 29, 2009 in (10 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Crocodiles | Modest Mouse
It wouldn't be all that risky to say everyone of a certain age has a Michael Jackson moment. He was a cultural phenomenon on a much larger scale than almost anyone else making music today (in some circles he'd get... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCKERS EULOGIZE THE KING OF POP»
Posted on June 26, 2009 in (81 comments)
Tags: Cold Cave | Crocodiles | Dave Sitek | Death Cab For Cutie | Frog Eyes | High Places | John Vanderslice | Michael Jackson | No Age | Sara Quin | Swan Lake | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | TV On The Radio
Saturday's double-bill at the Troubadour yielded a couple of fun facts. First, we learned that the night's opener, BTW Crocodiles, were being filmed for a profile on an upcoming episode of your favorite late night TV program, Last Call With... CONTINUE READING HOLY FUCK/CROCODILES @ THE TROUBADOUR, WEST HOLLYWOOD 6/6/09»
Posted on June 8, 2009 in , (4 comments)
Tags: Crocodiles | Holy Fuck
San Diego BTW Crocodiles evoke Jesus & Mary Chain, VU, and the Spacemen 3 with their stripped-down, dark noise-pop, but the duo is one of our favorite new bands because they write super songs, not because I'm obsessed with Darklands:... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: CROCODILES»
Posted on March 11, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: Crocodiles | Interpol | Julian Plenti
For those of you who've given up on the Vivian Girls because of that bathtub interview, here's a chance to wipe the slate clean and find some all-Girls noise-pop by someone from another coast. We've been enjoying L.A.'s Dum Dum... CONTINUE READING NEW DUM DUM GIRLS VIDEOS - "CATHOLICKED" & "BLANK GIRL"»
Posted on March 5, 2009 in , (18 comments)
Tags: Blank Dogs | Crocodiles | Dum Dum Girls | Micachu And The Shapes | Ryan Adams | The Mayfair Set
When we gathered up our favorite artists' year-end lists No Age included Crocodiles' "Neon Jesus" as one of their top 10 "shredders" of '08: "[Crocodiles are] a great new band from San Diego. This song is a real good kinda... CONTINUE READING BAND TO WATCH: CROCODILES»
Posted on February 25, 2009 in (35 comments)
Tags: Crocodiles