I decided to quit L.A. RECORD a couple weeks ago. I was exhausted, unable to deal with the deadlines, the endless shows, the flash-in-the-pan bands; I couldn't even sit in my chair or use my desk, because every square inch of my bedroom was covered in press releases and CDs that would crackle under my feet like Temple of Doom insects if I so much as moved. So I was opening the mail on my bed, when out of one Priority Mail package slid not just three CDs of fantastic folk music, but also some incense sticks, a [...]
Elisa Randazzo - Colors Buy the new record from Drag City Buy clothes too. Timeless. Tagged: Aaron Robinson , Bruises & Butterflies , Colors , DC434 , Dusty of California , Elisa Randazzo
Thursday feels like the real first day of the festival, which is no surprise really, considering the fact that there are fifteen different showcases for you to choose from, or hop in between. Yes, FIFTEEN. It's enough to make your head spin, which is one of the main reasons I decided to do these showcase-by-showcase preview posts in the first place. This is going to be a night of tough decisions no matter what your tastes in music veer towards - you've got several different brands of rock and singer-songwriter stuff to choose from. [...]
Aaron Robinson isn't rebuilding the wheel, but that's quite all right. I first heard of Mr. Robinson when I received Revive , the final record by his excellent and painfully underrated band, Imaginary Baseball League . It reminded me of a mix of Radiohead and Whiskeytown, and I listened to the album a LOT. I even included the song " Statistics " on an mp3 sampler. I saw him perform live, solo acoustic in Arkansas, and it was a really good show. I liked his music well enough that I didn't [...]
Sadly I missed out on what probably would have been one of my favorite local bands - by the time I caught on to the greatness that was Imaginary Baseball League, the group had already broken up. Fortunately, however, a little over a year and a half ago a friend took me to see Aaron Robinson , the former frontman of IBL, play a solo show at the Basement and I was completely blown away. After playing in another band that has since broken up as well, Aaron has [...]
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TOURS – Grand Lux / Drift About
YACHT Covers The Velvet Underground & Nico
Fixers: Really Great World (Chad Valley Remix)
Owl Eyes – Break In (Knightlife Remix)
ACL 2012: Lineup Leak?
