
[Happy birthday, Tony Kanal. As for you, Los Angeles: My, what a big show list you have ...] Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band , who were gorgeous in the summer evening air at Sunset Junction, hang around town for another show, tonight's at the Echoplex, rather curiously billed with Swedish rockers Dungen . ... Fresh off opening Green Day's big show Tuesday at the Forum, Franz Ferdinand (some of whom apparently adjourned that show and caught the Dead Weather at the Wiltern) [...]
Download: Jail Weddings "I'm My Own Doctor" (off Inconvenient Dreams out now on White Noise / Tru Vow)
Download: Jail Weddings "I'm My Own Doctor" (off Inconvenient Dreams out Aug 25th on White Noise) 8/21/2009 @ Legion Hall JAIL WEDDINGS (celebrating the release of our debut EP) BLUE JUNGLE HORSE THIEVES THE ENOCHIAN KEYS American Legion Post 206. 227 N. Avenue 55. Highland Park, CA 90042 9pm
Jail Weddings drummer Brian Watson started the 13-piece cinematic jazz band Watts Ensemble after one of those wouldn't-it-be-cool-if? barstool conversations that almost never go anywhere. With no formal compositional training, he brute-forced the music from his mind and assembled a band out of professional musicians captured on Craigslist. Their first album Crime & Time is out now. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
Jail Weddings video featuring "(Do You Think We're Gonna End Up On) Skid Row?" off their upcoming EP Inconvenient Dreams out Aug 25th on White Noise. Download: Jail Weddings "I'm My Own Doctor" (off Inconvenient Dreams out Aug 25th on White Noise)
Download: Jail Weddings "I'm My Own Doctor" (off Inconvenient Dreams out Aug 25th on White Noise)
Via White Noise Jail Weddings are in the midst of putting the finishing touches on their new EP, Inconvenient Dreams, which will come out on White Noise in July/Aug on vinyl, digital and very small run of CDs. Russell Simins (John Spencer Blues Explosion, etc) is meticulously mixing these 5 songs in Brooklyn right as we write [...]
For six years, Jorge put on some of the best and sometimes only rock 'n' roll blow-outs in and around L.A., luring bands like the Phantom Surfers, the A-Bones (with Roy Loney) and the Trashwomen and the Flakes and the Okmoniks and more to the Doll Hut or the wild Stagger Inn or Mr. T's [...]

MP3s from last week below. Download: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Bring It On' (from Nocturama on Anti) Download: Scotty Coats 'Beautiful Ones' Download: NON STOP 'Hydration Explosion' [...]

lauren everett Download: Jail Weddings 'Somebody Lonely' (from 'Somebody Lonely' 45 on Revenge/Red Wine) Said me in simpler times: Full disclosure is that I respect Gabe Hart (Starvations/Fortune's Flesh) a lot and here is the band he was born for. Nine-piece revue with himself and two wild ladies up front—Katya the incandescent blonde and Tina the bombshell brunette—and a band that is Phil [...]
Jail Weddings (Los Angeles, CA) I have to say I hadn't heard much about Jail Weddings before the band set up shop at The Echo this month for their Monday Night Free Residency. One things for sure - when I heard their music I was instantly starstruck. It's so refreshing to find a truly original band in Los Angeles. The 10 piece project play a blend of vintage pop, 60s surf, doo-wop, and old timey tunes that completely bring you out of yourself and into simpler times. At [...]