Princeton is from Los Angeles, but the quartet -- twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel with Ben Usen and David Kitz -- look East Coat Ivy League and, after all, wrote an EP about Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury Group crew. Thing is, they actually got their name from growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica (and supposedly all live together today in "aging green house on a hillside in the Eagle Rock district of LA where their album was recorded"). The album in question is their debut, Cocoo...
Stereogum — Princeton is from Los Angeles, but the quartet -- twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel with Ben Usen and David Kitz -- look East Coat Ivy League and, after all, wrote an EP... more info