Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: " Dreams " by Van Halen [...]
Plenty of Friday fun: ► Feedback-loving Bay Area post-punk trio Weekend hits the Echo behind their new "Red" EP on Slumberland Records, with Talk Normal and Tan Dollar supporting. ► Nashville quartet the Features , sharp and spirited when they visited L.A. in July, make a return visit to the Satellite. ► Bright Eyes plays a sold-out show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ► London dance royalty Monarchy visit the Echoplex, with two local bands, Hot As Sun and the Holloys, supporting. That's the video for [...]
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Bridesmaids is the newest film from producer Judd Apatow and director Paul Feig. Between these two hit makers they have a very successful heritage of successful television and box office block busters such as: Freaks & Geeks, 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Anchor Man, Superbad, Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sara Marshall and Talladega Nights. All of Judd's films have a rich use of music to enlighten the story and the humor. For the Bridesmaids Soundtrack, Judd and co have chosen songs from the likes of Wilson Phillips, Kate Nash and Britney Spears, among [...]
Bridesmaids is the newest film from producer Judd Apatow and director Paul Feig. The Brides Maids: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack dropped today in the US. Judd and Co. have chosen songs from the likes of Wilson Phillips, Kate Nash and Britney Spears, among others, to highlight the cheeky tale of Annie (played by Kristen Wiig), a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on [...]
[Happy weekend. Just a reminder that today is the day tickets go on sale for the Hollywood Bowl season . Yeah, including the National's show on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.] I don't wanna say that if you aren't out tonight you aren't breathing, but it is the busiest Saturday night in recent memory: ► Their sophomore album "Helplessness Blues" now safely stashed in the repository of your choice, Fleet Foxes bring their lush harmonizing to [...]
Holy Crap I Got two hands full of tunes for you guys. Enjoy these songs, share them, let everyone know about'em. Also, sidenote: we are looking for more writers for our website. If you are interested, send us an email ! First up we got Brontosaurus , a duo from Chicago, who's got darkness with a classical and often chaotic spin on pop. It's almost bipolar but it works well. Their debut, Cold Comes To Claim, is coming soon! Brontosaurs - Beware [MP3] tUnE-yArDs , aka [...]
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If Alfred Darlington's work as Daedelus over the last decade or so had been as consistent as his dress sense is elaborate (he often wears clothes straight out of the Victorian or early 20 th century eras on stage), he may well be considered as influential as artists like DJ Shadow and Flying Lotus. Initially breaking out with 2002's Invention, Daedelus' music drew new lines between the early '00s cut-up hiphop of Prefuse 73 and DJ Shadow and late IDM, throwing in his own vintage samples for good measure. The ensuing years have produced a wealth of [...]
LA dream-pop duo The Bird And The Bee recently revamped their official site. To celebrate that, they made an amusingly geeky welcome video. However, the best part is they uploaded a bunch of rarities on Soundcloud! The highlight is an unreleased cover of Madonna's "Material Girl". It's a fun '80s take, complete with 8-bit synths [...]
Inara George: Trouble [ purchase ] Inara George never really knew her father, Little Feat founder, frontman, and primary songwriter Lowell George - he died when she was five, leaving a young Inara to be raised by her mother. But having Jackson Browne as a godfather, and Van Dyke Parks as a family friend, kept her connected to the arts in her blood: she trained to be an actress, and after a high school reunion jam session led to a major label contract, a career in her [...]
Havoc reigns in the video for the Living Sisters ' "How Are You Doing?" But the remarkable part about it is not how well the cutesy triptych works — it is, after all, the work of Michel Gondry — but how good our heroic trio of L.A. songstresses look while all hell is breaking loose. They're California gals after all, and who better to harmonize via cell phone than Becky Stark, real-life new mom Inara George and Eleni Mandell? The song is from last year's aptly titled album "Love to Live," a sentiment that, when [...]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9D0Kr 0yHng "How Are You Doing?" is the Living Sisters song I want to hear twice. Living Sisters can make me feel like my last name is von Trapp and I'm tumbling playfully down a green hill wearing a dress made from window curtains. Eleni Mandell, Becky Stark, and Inara George take turns playing Maria, my badass nanny from the convent. This is not the plot of Michel Gondry's music video for the song. He's got us watching these doh-eyed ladies stumble blissfully through a series of everyday disasters. It's like a mini chick [...]
Priscilla Ahn's new album, When You Grow Up , will be released by Blue Note Records on May 3rd. Featuring songwriting collaborations with Sia, Eleni Mandell and Inara George, When You Grow Up is a lovely little album full of romantic ballads and retro girl pop numbers. Lyrically, the album explores the theme of growth (hence the title) throughout the ups and downs of life and love. Musically, it's just very, very pretty. "Oo La La" has a similar retro-influenced girl pop sound as [...]
Tudo que recebe o título de Volume 1 pede por uma continuação. Então, fiquem tranquilos, fãs do genial álbum de covers gravado pelo The Bird and The Bee , Interpreting The Masters Vol.1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates , o projeto de versões de Inara George e Greg Kurstin continuará, de acordo com Inara . Mas a sequência não será imediata, pois o duo de Indie Pop pretende gravar um álbum de inéditas ainda neste ano. Durante as gravações apressadas do tributo ao Hall & Oates , [...]
christine hale The Living Sisters "Double Knots" (From Love to Live out now on Vanguard) "Charming" is a word the Living Sisters hear too often, but it would be needlessly pretentious to reach for another adjective. I had a smile on my face within about twenty seconds of opener "How Are You Doing?" and for the most part, it never left. Something of a Los Angeles vocal supergroup, the Living Sisters are composed of the Bird and the Bee's Inara George, Lavender Diamond's Becky [...]
And now for something completely depressing. It's the video premiere of Sia 's "I'm In Here," the gorgeous, haunting ballad off of her sensational summer release, We Are Born . ( WATCH ) Taking a break from the puppets, fuzzy felts and colours for a moment, Sia now finds herself soaring miles away on a bleak, cloudy airplane ride to nowhere. The video is set to the acoustic version of the song (which is worthy of being deemed the sequel to Sia's grand opus, "Breathe Me" ), featuring vocals by [...]
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 [...]
Why didn't anyone tell me about this? I wrote about my love of Becky Stark earlier this year, so I don't know why I'm just finding out about the Living Sisters, a group that combines the talents of Stark, Eleni Mandell, and the Bird and the Bee's Inara George. Each of these ladies is great in their own right, and like peanut butter and chocolate or Tim & Eric, they're also great together. On opener "How Are You Doing", the girls' three distinct voices twist and swirl around each other, meeting briefly every now and then [...]
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