Your Sunday selections: ► San Diego-based Steve Poltz , the wildly entertaining singer-songwriter-satirist who rose from coffeehouse phenom to collaborate with Jewel and become known for sing-alongs, headlines this month's edition of the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite. The evening also features Billy Harvey , the hosts Daniel Ahearn & the Jones and a post-headliner songwriter circle in the Satellite's back room. ► Guitar whiz Marnie Stern (pictured) visits the Bootleg Theater, supported by Dunes, Wet & Reckless and Cinderella Motel. ► The Chapin Sisters bring their [...]
► British Sea Power's "Valhalla Dancehall" is one of our favorite records of the young year, and the Brighton, U.K., sextet brings its quirky spendor and roaring anthems [see "Who's in Control" ] to the Troubadour tonight. Above, their video for "Living Is So Easy." ► The monthly Rumble show convenes at the Echoplex, with Vanaprasta headlining and Stone Darling and Polls supporting. ► Rusty Anderson , who plays guitar for a guy named McCartney, headlines the Satellite behind his lateswt solo album "Born on Earth." Loch and Key and Billy [...]
March's installment of Buzz Bands LA's SecondTuesday songwriter series at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park was one of those intimate affairs that felt like a private showcase. Billy Harvey dazzled with his crisp couplets and one-man-band looping effects; Charlie Wadhams , joined by Jake Blanton on bass, was at turns winsome and funny during his set of heart-stopping ballads; and Paper Tiger (the side project of Drew Beck and Mike Goldman from Chasing Kings ) kicked the evening off with a batch of harmony-laden pop. Thanks to everybody who came out for a [...]
[Happy Fat Tuesday ... Can't think of a better way to start it that Vaud & the Villains' in-store performance at 3 this afternoon at Amoeba. Then there's the rest of your night:] A bunch of small shows and one big one: ► This month's installment of Buzz Bands LA's SecondTuesday songwriter series at Lot 1 Cafe is highlighted by Billy Harvey [see Monday's introduction to him] and Charlie Wadhams [pictured]. Wadhams, [...]
The songs of Billy Harvey often come off like lovingly fractured fairy tales, narratives and confessionals told with wry honesty and whimsical self-effacement. He can carry a pop tune too, as he's displayed on five albums since 2003, and where his skills as a raconteur haven't taken him, his work as a guitarist, producer and, now, actor has. ||| Stream: "Let This Be the Day" ||| Live: Billy Harvey plays Buzz Bands LA's SecondTuesday [...]
Billy Harvey , the longtime Texas singer-songwriter who's now splitting his time between Austin and Los Angeles, and Silver Lake mainstay Charlie Wadhams will co-headline the next installment of SecondTuesday , Buzz Bands LA's songwriter series at Lot 1 Cafe, on March 8. The evening starts at 9 p.m. with a set from Paper Tiger, the project of Chasing Kings bandmates Drew Beck and Mike Goldman. Tickets are $5 at the door. More on the music of both Harvey and Wadhams in the next couple of days. Meanwhile, check out [...]
My top 3 shows to hit if you're not going to the Hollywood Bowl for Smokey Robinson : ☛ The Californian [ background ] and Judson & Mary [ ditto ] play Spaceland, but late additions to the bill will make tonight pretty special — singer-songwriter Charlie Wadhams plays late, and L.A. newcomer (via Austin) Billy Harvey [whom I wrote about way back when ] plays early. ☛ Nico Vega opens for Sweethead at the Troubadour. ☛ And Irish folk duo [...]
[Elliott Smith would have been 40 years old today. I think I will spend a meditative hour with "XO" this afternoon ...] John Doe and the Sadies bring their collaboration to the Echoplex tonight behind "Country Club," a new album of country covers (plus three Sadies' compositions and one by Doe and Exene Cervenka). Jill Sobule supports. ... Spindrift [pictured], whose latest slab of hallucinatory spaghetti Western rock, "The Legend of God's Gun" just came out on Tee Pee Records, headline Spaceland, with [...]
Billy Corgan has been holed up in L.A. in recent months, writing new Smashing Pumpkins material, and at the Sky Saxon Tribute on Friday night at the Echoplex, he sprung one on the audience. Fronting a one-night-only band called Spirits in the Sky, which featured members of Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes (as well as new Smashing Pumpkins drummer Mike Byrne), Corgan debuted a pop-leaning number titled "Freak." And it was good, very good, something that recalled the material on "Mellon Collie," only fresher. Radio programmers, start your engines. You can't quite get the full power [...]
Billy Harvey, what can I say? Awesome song writing is what he is all about. Always fun to hear and see him perform whether alone or with others. I have seen him many times and have never been disappointed. Hell, I even emailed him with a question about a setlist and he emailed me back. Qualtiy musician. Quality person. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MUSIC! Check him out on Friday, March 14 @ Lambert's at 8:00 PM (401 W. 2nd) ARTIST: Billy Harvey | Homepage | Myspace | TRACK: Pixy Stick [...]
While I planned for and carried out my Mandolin Theme Week , my inbox filled up with music. Here are the bands/musicians I have neglected in the past few weeks. Arrange in Beta-Alpha-Cal order: Your Vegas ∞ In My Head RIYL: The Killers or The Bravery Website Water Fai ∞ Kaiyon RIYL: Explosions In The Sky Website Wallpaper ∞ Evrytm we do it RIYL: sexy synth Website [...]
Dupor Drazen - Angel of God (2007) 71) Animal Collective – For Reverend Green (mp3) 72) Grizzly Bear – He Hit Me (mp3) 73) Feist – 1234 (mp3) 74) Joanna Newsom – Colleen (mp3) 75) Radiohead – Videotape (mp3) 76) Billy Harvey – World Is On Fire (mp3) 77) Adel Bengo – Keep You Here (mp3) [...]
Again, it's been a little while since my last post. Now that finals and papers are all done I can finally devote my attention to what has been garnering a great deal of attention all around the blog-o-sphere, year end best of lists. 29. New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom Sales of ice cream in the U.K. were in record numbers this summer due to the sweet dance/pop of New Young Pony Club. OK, so maybe I have no idea about the sales of ice cream products in the [...]
www.JustSayinIsAll.com is excited to present a *free* indie showcase at Madison Pop Fest next Friday, November 9th featuring... EMERGING SOLO TALENT 7:00 Vid Libert [ of Madison, WI ] MP3: No One Knows BROKEN STROKESIAN RIOT [...]
Sean Healy - Egghead (2006) [resin, chewing gum, table] I'll attempt to proceed while the layout is in disarray. It's like composing delicate strategic plans amidst the stuttering Auto-Formatting of Microsoft Word. Or like writing poetry atop the roof of a hurricane-drowned house while columns of chaotic whitewater rush around me. My inappropriate affective response to a heightened level of danger and immediacy is sleep, so here's a lullaby about swords. Listen to it to drift asleep while you should be attending to your [...]
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