Sunday, July 29th: Dead Meadow @ EchoPlex Celebrate the release of the 25th issue of the L.A. Record w/Dead Meadow, Entrance, Darker My Love, and Phantom Family Halo. This is really two shows combined, check out the upstairs at The Echo with Moonrats, Die!Die!Die!, and Health for Part Time Punks. Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door ( mp3 ) Monday, July 30th: M.I.A. @ EchoPlex I can't believe I am getting AATW out on Monday, well [...]
Hank Williams III – Dick in Dixie My Saturday night last week was spent at home, drinking a PBR and listening to Ryan Adams as I finished up my mix from last week. I then went to You Set the Scene (a great blog everyone in LA/OC should be reading) and saw that Hank Williams III was playing at the Roxy and that it was sold out. I first heard his name last year around [...]
Frankel Plays Spaceland Tonight In addition to the regular club gigs, there's a free outdoore show in Westwood and downtown... Thursday's Pick: Patrick Park / Afternoons / The Temporary Thing / Frankel @ Spaceland ($8) – This is the last night of Patrick Park's month long Thursday night residency and probably my favorite lineup yet. Download PP's " Nothing's Wrong " and " Home For Now " Afternoons is a more psych-pop oriented offshoot of Irving (Steven, Brian and [...]
From indie folk-pop underpinnings to Polyphonic Spree-like grandiosity, the debut full-length from this L.A. girl-boy band is definitely on the right track.
You really aren't allowed to dislike John Vanderslice . Maybe you don't care for his music, but the guy himself is impossible to ignore. No one is more friendly to digital music, whether in terms of offering free mp3s and extras or collaborating with blogs, than JV. And though, like the rest of us, he puts his pants on one leg at a time, once they're on he makes gold records at his famous Tiny Telephone studio. Anyway, his new record, Emerald City , is out today. Though not as rich musically or lyrically as 2005's Pixel Revolt , [...]
Sound: Semi-symphonic, indie pop/rock marked by exuberant four-part harmonies that sound like they're sung by a choir, instead of two girls and two guys. Their infectious enthusiasm falls somewhere between Mates of State's lo-fi version and The Polyphonic Spree's grandiose setup, while they occasionally conjure up the dramatic tension of Arcade Fire and the hippie-like idealism of many late '60s bands...
Last week, we asked you to guess the name of William Bowers's weekly SOTC column. Boy, that was a real hoo ha—is The Bower Hour really the best you could do? The correct answer is Provincializm—and in case you missed the gratuitous bio the first time around, here we goez again: the dude writes for Pitchfork, Paste, Magnet , plus his work's been in a da Capo anthology . Send him your spiritual healing at Puritan Blister DJ Housemate on a mission from God [...]
Just a reminder: one of the more earnest and powerful releases of the year, Bodies of Water 's Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink , finally comes out tomorrow . Our love for this band has been well-documented , and their cathartic "gospel-pop" has also won over the fine folks at Said the Gramophone , La Blogotheque , and Music For Robots , to name but a few. Presumably to celebrate tomorrow's release, the band has made a few more mp3s available for download at their website [...]
Now this is what I like to see. Arcade Fire meets The Polyphonic Spree meets heart-wrenching sincerity. Bodies of Water is all of these things, and more. Their new LP, Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink is a solid record and will be available for purchase as of July 24th . From their Myspace page: "Bodies of Water don't make music in order to express themselves, to comfort or challenge those who listen, or even to augment the canon [...]
We'll be away for a bit this week and no matter how happy that might make you it's nothing compared to the feeling you'll have at these fine shows... Why anyone would miss Sonic Youth and Redd Kross tonight at the Greek would be a mystery unless of course The Bird and the Bee at the El Rey, Jonathan Rice/Whispertown2000/Everest at the Echo, or Jon Brion at Largo suit you more, especially since
Le magnifique ?Exilé? de Johnnie To, dont l'hommage à Sergio Leone et à Sam Peckinpah passe en partie par l'emploi de la musique, aurait parfaitement pu se servir de l'exubérance cavalcante des Bodies of Water. Ces 4 californiens, qui sonnent comme s'ils étaient une multitude et qui ont autant écouter les ballades hippies du Summer of Love qu'Ennio Morricone, taillent un Doves Circle The Star comme on érige des monuments avec du vent. C'est plus qu'une chanson impétueuse, c'est l'impétuosité faite (...)
Listening to Bodies of Water can certainly be an overwhelming experience. The L.A. based quartet all but radiates a sense of glory and sincerity, pushing each new song to the brink, pulling it back, and then pushing all over again. They make big music (the "quartet" swells to as many as eleven members at times) filled with love, chaos and emotion, channeling The Arcade Fire in one breath and the sweet sun-soaked harmonies of the late 1960s in the very next; they are over the top at times, wonderfully so, and that seems to be precisely the [...]
When a person experiences great change, the event often totally interrupts ones life, one is likely to turn to a variety of devices in an attempt to overcome the event (i.e. lots and lots of liqour, emo music, crack, whores, crack whores, etc). I turned to a variety of things. Here is a mixtape of emotionally invigorating music and other nonsense. This weeks playlist. Pond PA - If you live
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered (eclectichermit.blogspot.com) Honeymoon Killers - Laisse tomber les filles (this.bigstereo.net) Elias diá Kimuezo - Zé Salambinga (bennloxo.com) Masta Ace feat. Koolade - Survival (soul-sides.com) Sway - Sky is Falling (myspace.com/swaydasafo) M.I.A. - Hit That (saidthegramophone.com) Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin (myoldkyhome.blogspot.com) Kristoffer Ragnstam - Dr Give the [...]
Bodies Of Water - "Our Friends Appear Like the Dawn" What waves, what splashing, what gowns that fall and flow, what wine-coloured majesty, what grace. Such intensity in your silent weeping, such blazing open-eyed crying, shouting, upheaval. Bodies Of Water have cultivated (as in, grown from mere seeds) an album of almost unbearable beauty. Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink is a fantasy painting of a landscape lush, wide and foreign, an epic journey, a heroic undertaking, an accomplishment. I've posted them before, but this is their time. They have truly arrived, and I'm so glad I was here [...]
I remember in a sunday school class many years ago, my teacher (who eventually became my mother-in-law, for the record) was trying to teach her recalcitrant students that music could reach your soul and create a feeling of awe, even if it wasn't "church sanctioned" music, i.e. hymns. I can't remember what all she played, except I think there was a Led Zeppelin tune in there. It was a radical idea to all of us hymn-singers when put so baldly, but as a devoted listener I knew it already somehow, because like most teenagers, I got a feeling-fix [...]
" Bodies of Water don't make music in order to express themselves, to comfort or challenge those who listen, or even to augment the canon of American song. They only strive to make a noise pleasing to the divine ear. They believe that the purpose of life is to align one's individual will with that of God in both thought and deed ." I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that the above quote, taken from Bodies of Water 's [...]
Photography Collection from a Flickr search As if through divine intervention (a wonderful song by Matthew Sweet, by the way) these two songs came on yesterday when I needed that extra push. A smile crept across my face as These Are The Eyes built and built until it crashed, complete. Bodies of Water - These Are The Eyes [...]
Bodies of Water - These Are The Eyes To be honest, today I am in no mood to listen to happy music, but this song is undeniable. It is so many things all at once. It is wild and happy, it's bizarre and yet completely familiar. It's got four people singing, and it's exactly perfect that way, meaning it's a good thing writing song fell to this band , because elsewhere it would have been failed. It manages (against all odds) to sound like Lucky Soul and the Arcade Fire at the same time. [...]
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