Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye (2007) The part of LA where I lived in the late 2000s was a really rich vein of...
Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye (2007)
The part of LA where I lived in the late 2000s was a really rich vein of just-breaking-through-“indie” music but then Daft Punk did that Coachella set and everyone sold their guitars and bought turntables.
This was the song coming out of there you’re most likely to recognize, “Silversun Pickups” was actually a reference to a liquor store at the cross of Sunset and Silver Lake.
Like, I kind of felt like a dilettante, but in retrospect going to Spaceland or The Echo at least once a week I was more exposed to that stuff than 99.9% of America.
Great Northern, The Like, and Giant Drag are the real standouts I remember. I saw The Submarines for a monthly Spaceland residency once and came back again the next week but they ended up about properly rated.
The monthly residencies were pretty much as big as you could get there, play once a week as a showcase for A&R reps or – really growing key at that point – people who might put it in commercials or CW shows (which for music somehow went through your publisher?)