Crocodiles – “Teardrop Guitar” Video from stereogum on Vimeo. Douglas Martin doesn’t understand the hullabaloo surrounding @horse_ebooks. Maybe he’s just getting old. Crocodiles have always been the sort of “style over substance” band whose natty style and well-worn and carefully curated influences (Jesus and Mary Chain, Spacemen 3) are discussed at greater length than […]

Douglas Martin’s birthday is in less than two weeks. Someone should buy him a leather jacket and sunglasses he can wear at night. Crocodiles remained a small band for as long as they could. Until recently, the LA-via-San Diego band were just a two piece, using only one voice, one drum machine, one guitar, and […]

In the same Southern Californian noise-rock boon that spawned Wavves, Abe Vigoda, and a litany of other bands that have probably spent more money on reverb pedals than on all of their touring vans combined, Crocodiles was the great band that got left behind. Their 2009 record Summer of Hate came and went despite being […]