Death to Anders brings the noise on sophomore album

Death to Anders isn't the first band to tip-toe in the wide footprints of Sonic Youth, and the L.A. quartet won't be the last. But judging from the guitar squalor and dissonant edge on its new album, "Fictitious Business," frontman Rob Danson and his bandmates mean business.

"With all of today's technology, everything is getting so crystal-clear and overproduced," Danson says. "I think we need some of that gritty noise to bring things back down to earth."

As noisy as Death to Anders' sophomore album is, it's cleaner than 2006's "Punctuate the Calamities," which was home-recorded and self-produced. This time around, Danson, Pete DiBiasio, Nick Ceglio and John Troeckel spent eight days in the studio with producer Dave Newton (the Little Ones). Among the guests on the album are Sara Negahdari of L.A. trio the Happy Hollows.

||| See Death to Anders' album-release show on Tuesday night at Boardner's as part of a Radio Free Silver Lake bill that includes the Monolators and Wait Think Fast.

||| Download: "Camera Lens."

Photo by Zoe Ruth Erwin

Highlights for Monday, Jan. 14

Tonight's Troubadour show featuring British songstress Kate Nash is sold out, but she will be playing an in-store at Amoeba Music at 6:30 p.m. ... Everest and the Mezzanine Owls are the support for tonight's installment of the Parson Red Heads' residency at Spaceland. ... Miss Derringer brings her art-pop noir to the Viper Room for the Indie 103.1 "Check One...Two" show. ... Radar Bros. continue their residency at the Echo, with Correatown among the support. ... And the Henry Clay People bring their barbed-wire pop to the Silverlake Lounge for the We Barbarians residency.

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too many good shows this evening! what is a girl to do?!