As veteran New York quartet Luna demonstrated Thursday night to a packed and sultry Empty Bottle, there will always be an audience for brainy, beautifully crafted and performed indie guitar pop.

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Where are the Bay Area’s new guitar heroes? Ian S. Port knows a thing or two about guitar heroes. The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll ...

THE BIRTH OF LOUD Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ’n’ Roll By Ian S. Port Illustrated. 340 pp. Scribner. $28.