“At least in some part to geographical circumstance, Amherst, MA four-piece California X has had to spend the early part of their career in the shadows of a host of other Western Mass bands, both past and present. To be sure, frontman Lemmy Gurtowsky has cribbed his share of licks from J Mascis and Black Francis. And despite the fact that engineering duties for their new LP Nights in the Dark were ”
