ANAVAN: Interview “I want it to feel like you’re 15, jumping up
and down on your bed with your friends.”  ANAVAN play synth-
based dance music without guitars, yet they call Los Angeles
rock venue The Smell home. But it works, because their electro-
pop aesthetic has a punk sensibility that blurs style and genre,
and it's all very catchy and unpredictable, danceable and
substantive. I spoke with ANAVAN drummer and vocalist Aaron
Buckley over the phone a couple days after he returned from the
band's first European tour. We talked about ANAVAN's tour there,
why people need dance music, and where they hope to go next with
their music.    In your promo materials and on your website,
there is a story claiming that the band is from Alaska. Is this
true?  Actually, I am from Ketchikan, Alaska. Bret is a native
Angeleno, and Molly is from Minnesota. When we first signed with
GSL, Bret wrote up this silly bio that claimed we were all from
the "The Last Frontier," which we all thought was pretty funny.
Anyway, I grew up