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# Rather be a hammer
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/rather-be-a-hammer/
- Published: 2007-07-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:19:50.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Visitors will be serenaded by Castledoor and Low vs. Diamond tonight at the Hammer museum’s “Also I like to Rock” series.

Silver Lake’s Castledoor has been charming local audiences with its intricate songcraft and ethereal sound. On their sold-out, self-released EP, “Follow the Dove,” joyful lyrics float on heavenly waves of vocal harmonies.

Lush, languorous and beautifully bittersweet — that’s the sound of “Life After Love,” the stunning debut EP from Marrakesh recording artists Low vs Diamond. The intoxicatingly tuneful disc introduces the Los Angeles-based quintet as a band with skyscraping ambition, blending elements of Roxy Music, Smashing Pumpkins and Burt Bacharach to thrilling effect.

Starting at 8 p.m., the free concert event will take place at the Hammer, located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd, 90024.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 19, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071907.pdf?ref=smdp.com)