Pageants is an indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 duo formed in 2011 and based in Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

. Its members consist of Rebecca Coleman (formerly of Avi Buffalo

Avi Buffalo

Avi Buffalo is an indie-pop band based in Long Beach, California founded by singer/songwriter and guitarist, Avi Zahner-Isenberg. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 27th of April, 2010, and was given positive reviews by The Onion A.V. Club, NME, Filter, Drowned in Sound and numerous...

) on vocals and guitar, high school friend Devin O'Brien on guitar, and occasionally Lia Braswell (Therapie's Son) on Drums. "Coleman’s new band employs the shrill harmonies she lent to her former act’s breakthrough debut album last year," while lending itself towards "the lonely guitar jangle of early Liz Phair" rather "than Avi Buffalo's axe heroics." Pageants is currently recording with Bobb Bruno of Best Coast

Best Coast

Best Coast is an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles, California, and is often categorized under the subgenres of garage rock, surf pop, and lo-fi. The band currently consists of Bethany Cosentino, who writes all of the band's songs and fronts the group, multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, ...

and playing shows in the Los Angeles Area.

External links

• Official Website
• Pageants on Blogspot
• Pageants on Myspace
• Pageants on Twitter
• Pageants on Bandcamp
• "Words As Pictures" live video
• "Deep Ring" live video

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