Stereogum — Lync were an excellent emo/post-hardcore band who came out of Olympia’s indie rock scene in the early ’90s. Despite only being active for two years, they cranked out one cult classic album in 1994 called These Are Not Fall Colors, which was re... more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, Pedro The Lion released Achilles Heel. Winners never quit. Read our review of its essential follow-up, which took a decade and a half: The post Pedro The Lion Released “Achilles Heel” 20 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magne... more info

Stereogum — A while ago, David Bazan brought back his long-running, intensely self-reflective project Pedro The Lion. Since that revival — you can’t really say “reunion” when it’s basically just one guy — Pedro have released the albums Phoenix a... more info

Stereogum — In recent years, David Bazan has been working his way through his youth, one geographically situated album at a time. In 2019, the project began with Phoenix , and it continued in 2022 with the surprise release of Havasu . Next up in the sequenc... more info

Stereogum — Owen Ashworth has built up quite the legacy for himself over the past few decades between his music as Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and, more recently, Advance Base, and he’s also put a spotlight on a whole lot of artists with his label Ori... more info

Stereogum — On Control‘s 10th anniversary in 2012, David Bazan set out on a national tour to play the album in full; the tour tagline read “David Bazan Band Plays Pedro The Lion’s Control.” Pedro The Lion had officially broken up six years before, and... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — This week on our weekly interview podcast Transmissions, Owen Ashworth of Advance Base on the merits of "gloss era" Bruce Springsteen, the influence of David Bazan of Pedro the Lion and Joe Pera, CCR, and raiding family members' record collections. ... more info

Stereogum — David Bazan is crying while driving. Many scenes in the new documentary Strange Negotiations find the once and future Pedro The Lion frontman alone, steering his sedan down endless highways between emotionally taxing house shows. In this one, he reac... more info

Bradley's Almanac — As a longtime fan of all things David Bazan-related, including his main outfit Pedro the Lion, his hi-caliber band collaborations like Lo Tom & the Undertow Orchestra, his electro-organic duo Headphones, and his extensive solo output, my ears perked ... more info

Stereogum — David Bazan formed Pedro The Lion in 1995. Over the next decade, the Seattle band released four albums of contemplative indie rock that explored Bazan's conflicted relationship with his own Christianity and won him a legion of devoted fans. And then,... more info