Album titles rarely get more nuanced than Big Echo. The name of The Morning Benders’ sophomore LP, issued in March on Rough Trade, works on a handful of levels. First, there’s its most fundamental ...

The Morning Benders dropped by the station last week to play a set of dreamy, laid back, romantic songs from their latest album “ Big Echo.” Singer Chris Chu says they wanted to both pick a title that ...

There’s never been a shortage of pop bands taking to the beach for fun and inspiration, and Berkeley, Calif.’s Morning Benders are following in the right footsteps. The band’s debut, Talking Through ...

The Morning Benders spent most of this week traveling through a cell phone dead zone as the band made its way across Idaho, Utah and the Rocky Mountains. “It was good and bad,” said Chris Chu, the ...

I was spending a rare night at home recently and heard two KCRW favorites on big commercials. It’s so exciting to recognize a song by a band you love and realize a whole new audience is now going to ...

File this under super-cool ways to benefit the struggling, earthquake-torn nation on the other side of Ocean Beach: the , the Berkeley-via-Brooklyn indie-pop quartet that basically took the world by ...