
The American version of Jens Lekman... Buddy Holly reincarnated... A long-lost grandson of Richie Valens... JJ releases his premiere LP on 5/20. It's titled A Place Where We Can Go . Full track listing is as follows: 1. Nite Nite 2. Heavenly Creatures 3. Beautiful Rebel 4. The Living Dolls 5. Escape To Aspen 6. Till We Meet Again 7. A Place Where We Could Go 8. While The City Sleeps 9. Hold Me In Your Arms Tonite 10. Someone Cares Learn more about Jeremy [...]

Sunday, January 6th: Tempo No Temp @ Knitting Factory Berkeley's Tempo No Tempo play Los Angeles tonight in support of their new EP, Repetition . w/Aanchors Aaweigh (Blood Arm side project), and The Histories Tempo No Tempo - Repetition ( mp3 ) Also Recommended: No Age @ The Smell , The Health Club @ Proof , Rademacher @ Safari Sam's Monday, January 7th: Radar Bros. @ The Echo Radar Bros. kick off [...]

With his latest release, Airwalker [ buy ] , Jeremy Jay ( singer/songwriter/multi-instru mentalist ) has put together set of tracks that is so achingly beautiful that it might just haunt you in your sleep. And you'll love him for it. The six song EP is a gloomy blend of influences that fits snugly into the funereal catalog of Post-Punk --- somewhere between Joy Division and Arcade Fire . The opener, Lampost Scene , is more of a shadowy extended introduction to the title [...]

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Jeremy Jay - "Airwalker" The ease with which this song is produced is completely infectious. If lyrics are this easy, if singing a languid tenor is this easy, if steppity-step drums and whistling organ lines are this easy, then maybe everything is just as easy. Maybe I can snap my fingers in time to the pace of my feet and everything will turn into this gray night cityscape fog. Everything will have the easy grace and breezy moves of an unexpected dancer, a stranger, hiply dressed with a gaunt face, who's [...]
Chapter Three: The Heart of the Order On any busy night in Los Angeles, a lineup like this one might be overlooked. And if you were to do so, it would be a tragedy. The beginnings of this presentation date back circa 2006 upon the arrival of Lenka to America via Australia. Her debut as a solo artist to Los Angeles was considered pretty momentous for anyone who had heard Decoder Ring's 2002