[December 2008] ANAVAN play synth-based dance music without guitars, yet they call Los Angeles rock venue The Smell home. But it works, because their electro-pop aesthetic has a punk sensibility that blurs style and genre, and it's all very catchy and unpredictable, danceable and substantive. I spoke with ANAVAN drummer and vocalist Aaron Buckley over the phone a couple days after he returned f...
(photo by John Shardt) Srsly. The three-piece synthed-out group Anavan (from the same LA scene that birthed the bevy of groups who call The Smell home) do all that dance rock groups should do, all without the help of that...