Receiver

Receiver became one of the leading lights of the Los Angeles-based power pop movement in the late '90s and early 2000s on the strength of their classicist but fresh Big Star and Badfinger-inspired rock & roll. Their carefully manicured 2001 debut, Inspiration Overload, subsequently became an almost instant cult classic. Receiver was initially conceived in 1998 by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Ken West at the urging of longtime friend and scenester Robbie Rist. West, who replaced then-18-year-old guitarist Jason Falkner in the Barking Spiders (who would later become Upsy Dais...