MIND THE GAP AND CHARLIE WADHAMS ON MONDAY OCT. 10TH AT THE BOOTLEG THEATER, 2220 BEVERLY BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 10:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

The Rosebuds Play the Satellite on Friday (along with Other Lives) The highlight of last week for me, was finally seeing Dr. John. Great band (Shannon Powell on drums) and a good setlist. He played new stuff, but threw in some of the greatest hits too. For a guy over 70, he's still amazingly cool. Monday 6/27/11 [Pick of the Night] Rickie Lee Jones / King / Hazel @ Bardot (Free w/ RSVP ) – I [...]
Bedroom pop? Here's an absolutely staggering performance from L.A.'s Priscilla Ahn and Rawkblog hero Charlie Wadhams, who bring this co-written duet into an airy living room. You can practically feel David Crosby and Joni Mitchell looking in from the hallway. Wadhams is playing the Bootleg Theater on Sunday; don't miss his excellent Little Videos session , too - or his appearance on my April mixtape . (via TwentyFourBit )

You are loved, you are loved, you are really, really loved . Sad bastard music, after the jump. I've Got Dreams mixtape: ZIP 1. Little Scream - "The Heron and the Fox": mp3 2. Lia Ices - "Love is Won" 3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Face like Summer" 4. North Highlands - "Sugar Lips": mp3 5. The Sweet Hurt - "Part of Me": mp3 6. The Lake Poets [...]
Priscilla Ahn Duets w/Charlie Wadhams, Announces Ethan Johns-Produced LP Los Angeles singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn first crossed my radar when she performed a must-watch cover of Cass McCombs' "Meet Me Here at Dawn" alongside Andrew Bird last year. Given her striking skills in harmony displayed on that take, news that Ahn has teamed up with producer Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Laura Marling) on her forthcoming LP, When You Grow Up , now has me doubly intrigued to hear her tunes put to tape. For a taste of what's to come, watch Ahn sing a [...]
Filed under: Aussie , Beats , Clip , Oldie Tagged: album , australia , Blue Note Records , Charlie Wadhams , crisp , Inara George , interview , music , old , Priscilla Ahn , Ray LaMontagne , sia , Sia Furler , single , UGG boots

For your fantastic Friday: ► Singer-songwriter Henry Wolfe , the son of Meryl Streep who's been praised for his smart, sticky tunes, celebrates the release of his album "Linda Vista" at the Hotel Cafe. Ferraby Lionheart and Charlie Wadhams make it a value-added stop. ► New Zealand's electro-pop whiz kids the Naked and Famous play a sold-out show on the first of two nights at the Echoplex. ► Swahili Blonde , the Nicole Turley project that's busy making new music to follow up last year's debut [...]
Ironically enough, Charlie Wadhams is perhaps the most undersung singer-songwriter I know. Both of his recent EPs are the kind of year-end-list worthy folk which should be soundtracking intimate romantic dramas with Michelle Williams and production offers from T Bone Burnett. But I've said all this before, so I'll let this absolutely stellar Little Videos session do the talking. Find three more gorgeously performed clips after the jump.

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 $5 at the door. More on the music of both Harvey and Wadhams in the next couple of days. Meanwhile, check out [...]
In the five years or so I've been doing this, I can't remember a better year for songs. I actually spent most of Saturday ordering a top 100, went a little crazy and decided nobody needed me to rank seven hours of tracks. So here's a top 50. Every single one of these tracks is incredible, and yes, even Ke$ha. For the record, I allowed two songs per band in a few special cases because not including both Sally Seltmann jams would be a lie (though I did cut two Best Coast songs). Also, No. 51 is Lady Gaga ("Telephone") [...]
BEST OF 2010 : The album isn't dead. But, like the dinosaurs, it may not outlast its smaller, warm-blooded colleagues. In 2010, the EP became something more than a tour curio or a year-end reminder of a band's existence. For bands unable or unwilling to make the artistic and financial investment of a full-length release, the EP became the perfect format: long enough to showcase what a band could do without being too short to pass off as a one-MP3 wonder and just right for self-releasing and giving away free, as so many groups chose to do this year. For [...]

As a Jon Brionphile, it's easy to over-credit the Los Angeles mainstay: his Beatles-meets-Bacharach songwriting and Enoian sense of mid-fi production ambition make for a complex but unmistakable sound evident in the work of artists from Fiona Apple to The Bird and the Bee. Brion, of course, has friends, from Apple to Aimee Mann - all frequent visitors to his homebase, West Hollywood club Largo. While the Largo brand of unpopular pop had its heyday a decade ago with the release of albums by Brion, Apple, Aimee Mann, Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, Rufus Wainwright and others, the [...]

Gus Seyffert is one of those magical players that seems to matriculate to the good stuff. He's made a fine album as Willoughby , played alongside excellent local artists such as the Bird and the Bee , Mike Andrews , Charlie Wadhams and the Sweet Hurt , produced a slew of others and has an imprint of his own, Sargent Records. Earlier this year, he started the free "Sargent Singles" series — it was intended to be monthly, but his current gig as touring bassist for Norah Jones has stifled that — that [...]

Two days ago I watched a movie called Cyrus. It stars Jonah Hill (meh), John C. Reilly (meh) and Marisa Tomei (yum). For a comedy it wasn't very funny, it was alright at the most. I've also seen it described as a dramedy, which makes more sense but again, really no need for the "edy". Couple things happened. One, a set of about eight youths stumbled into the cinema thinking they were about to get Step Brothers 2 after seeing both Reilly and Hill (I know he wasn't in Step Brothers but you know what I mean) attached [...]
Tonight, in 2 paragraphs: ☛ Seventeen months after their greatest hits album was released and 15 years after "Hey Man, Nice Shot" ruled the radio, industrial rockers Filter have a new album out, "The Trouble With Angels." That's the video for "The Inevitable Relapse," above. Filter brings the heavy stuff to the Roxy tonight, a rather appropriate way to get the engines running for this weekend's Sunset Strip Music Festival. Also: Fitz & the Tantrums do a free in-store at Amoeba at 7. ... Hip-hop abounds, with [...]

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 [...]