Bad Suns are a young pop-rock quartet from Los Angeles who are touring their butts off and selling out good-sized rooms just about everywhere they go, from Seattle to Atlanta to New York City. They're doing this without a big-time radio hit or a song in an ad or on a soundtrack, at least that I can find. Presumably, Bad Suns are packing places the old-fashioned way: because people like their music, which is the kind of snappy, almost robotic pop-rock that is all the rage these days, à la Capital Cities or Kongos or the 1975 or whoever.

by Ben Salmon