Another busy Monday ... ► Tift Merritt won plenty of acclaim for last year's "See You on the Moon," her fourth album, and her recent turn in the star-studded Big Star tribute in New York City only polished her resumé. The 36-year-old singer-songwriter nears the end of a long tour with roots rocker Stephen Kellogg tonight at the Bootleg Theater. (It's an early show.) ► Rising indie-rockers Hands headline the RSVP-only It's a School Night at Bardot, but it's the EP release party for [...]
This week's newest additions to the Rock Band Network are sparse, with continuing outages on the Playstation Network and only a handful of tracks hitting the Xbox 360. This week's metal roundup includes songs from Amberian Dawn, Andromeda, and Tesseract. The complete list of newly added Xbox 360 Rock Band Network songs, including the non-metal t... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
You rarely get to see a band doing the behind the scenes stuff, but it great to see the band goofing around with each other. There is a lot of down time in between takes of songs when taping for a TV show. Grace and the rest of the band made sure to keep all of us entertained. Benny Yurco showed what true band love is, by picking Cat Popper's nose for her. Grace marveled at Benny's chest hair in the deep-v they had him wear for TV. This led to some conversation amongst the band about Grace's chest and [...]
ramon felix Precocious over-educated hipsters generally HATE it when actors jump into music. After all, how could someone who wakes up at 4 AM to be on "My Name Is Earl" ever truly know the ecstasies and agonies of seeing a band close out the Echoplex? But actor Adam Goldberg, most famous for getting stabbed by a Nazi in Saving Private Ryan, proved to everybody with 2009's LANDy that he can make an album in his spare time as good or better than what most kids in Echo Park do all day. [...]
MP3 I was lurking one of my favorite blogs for some positive tunage, and I got what I was looking for: A new track from King Tuff-a.k.a. Kyle Thomas, a.k.a. the frontman of Happy Birthday . On "Hands," rides a wave of flanged guitars into a sunny rock riffs. Though the song is pretty upbeat, there's something kind of freakish about it. Maybe it's the weird, shouting background vocals. Apparently, this 7" is being released by Scion as a promotional deelie. OK. That's coo. Hear the Hex [...]
You've heard Kyle Thomas' cracked warble through the infectious radio garage-pop of Happy Birthday. Now we're all lucky enough to be re-introduced to Thomas' original hip-swaggering, pelvic thrusting rock 'n' roll band King Tuff. "Hands" sounds like the squelch of spandex on the floor of Bill Graham's Fillmore East when Mick Jagger dragged his crotch [...]
Well we didn't get to it until the 11th hour, but that's alright because who doesn't love themselves a handful of remixes? The below handful of remixes has all of the artists you know and love and some you might just have to learn to love. First off is Geographer 's "Kites" remix which we really haven't seen up until now. We've even got a remix of Moby 's "Pale Horses" by the well-accepted Apparat . Moby has been quite active recently and is quite the avid tweeter. Check him out on Twitter @ thelittleidiot [...]
Your fabulous Friday fare ... ► Eastern Conference Champions' new album "Speak-Ahh," its first full-length of new material in four years, is due out on Tuesday, and the L.A. trio celebrates with a show tonight at the Echo with Hands and Hot As Sun supporting. ► The Railroad Revival Tour — which features three bands traveling by train to do shows in six cities — hits Ports O'Call Village in San Pedro. The lineup features Mumford & Sons , Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros [...]
Over the last few years, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, which boasts an impressive array of celebrities buried within its grounds, has played host to a series of unique concerts. The latest batch of artists to sign on to perform amongst the tombstones include Explosions In The Sky, James Blake, Mark Lanegan and Flaming Lips . The psychedelic-rock act , who will play the cemetery for two nights and one morning on June 14 and 15, will seize the opportunity by performing their 1999 breakthrough album The Soft Bulletin [...]
As expected, Bright Eyes have a ton of upcoming tour dates in support of their latest release The People's Key . Conor Oberst & Co. will once again return to Philadelphia, where they'll be
EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS, HANDS, AND HOT AS SUN ON FRIDAY APR. 22ND AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30/ $8/ 18+
Back by popular demand is Part 2 of March's 'Handful of Remixes'. If you missed Part 1, you can check it out here . Featured this week we can't tell you how much we did Lykke Li' s "Little Bit", remixed by CSS. Although her new album Wounded Rhymes (released 3/1/11) didn't really stick with us, she's still quite remixable. Also this week is Friends Electric who we featured last week . The Answering Machine has been on everyone's playlists and we jumped [...]
Dirty Hands play rock'n'roll. If an Independent article and website biography are anything to go by, they also really like James Dean and The Strokes. That's three whole reasons to give Dirty Hands a try. Listening to Dirty Hands is the musical equivalent of swallowing down a handful of gravel and four fingers of whiskey. A confusing metaphor perhaps, but one they're sure to be proud of. There's nothing half hearted about Dirty Hands, from the hopeful early notes of 'Baby, Life's Too Short', to the first callous, uncompromising vocals, everything you need to know - or at [...]
Buy Electric Guitars - Best Buy Electric Guitars Review Sales Because you are on this article now, you are most likely on a tight budget and want to get good value for the money you will possibly spend for things like electric guitars. And more or less, you want to go for the option of buying [...]
[Third of a 5-part series previewing Los Angeles acts headed to Austin to play SXSW:] HANDS If you like: Tough-to-Google band names, nifty use of samples, drama. What's up with them: It's no accident Hands have scored some prime gigs opening for big acts — the latest being Saturday night with DeVotchKa. Their sweeping, beat-addled mix of rock and [...]
Pretty much any idea for a Tumblr page is a good one. Case in point: The person who simply posts every Alan Palomo image they can find. But, OK, this one is really is a great one. Called Fuck Yea... Continue reading "Fuck Yeah, Rock GIFs: Reliving Your Favorite Concerts, A Handful Of Images At A Time." >
Back by popular demand is our monthly ' Handful of Remixes ' where you get to grab as many as you can claw your hands around (but not too many so they're not falling out of your pockets on your way home). This month we'd like to showcase a few fantastic songs particularly one by Toro Y Moi remixed by Robot Science whose album Good Luck we recently reviewed . Also this week is a freshly remixed version of Radiohead 's latest off of King of Limbs , Lotus [...]
Planning your SXSW schedule can be overwhelming, so you have to just know the for-sure must-go-to-see acts and then go-all-out the rest of the day. Below is a list of artists we plan on seeing once if not three times, while Winnie and crew are down in Austin covering SXSW 2011. 17 MUST SEE BANDS PERFORMING @ SXSW 2011 : The Belle Brigade (Los Angeles, CA) 'Sweet Louise' [...]
Its been a while since I've done one of these remix round up posts, but there's been enough solid reworks lately I thought it necessary to crank it up again. I knew what I was getting... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
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