Here are three excellent and completely free label samplers that are well worth getting your grubby mitts on. The first comes from the wonderful Saddle Creek label and their thirteen track Summer Sampler 2012 includes offerings from The Mynabirds, Cursive, Tim Kasher, Bright Eyes and Maria Taylor . The second is from Jeffery Drag Records and is a collection of ten tracks from some top-notch garage rock'n'rollers, punks and assorted ne'er-do-wells such as Bad Child , The Hussy, Pujol, Useless Eaters, Natural Child and The Electric Dollhouse Groovebuggy [...]
einer dieser glücksgriffe. auf der suche nach irgendwas oder der jagd nach irgendwem bin ich irgendwo gelandet. aber alles andere als nirgendwo. denn auf folktale records fühlte ich mich sogleich beheimatet. einige bekannte namen, andere, die das programm wundervoll zu ergänzen wissen. so tritt man der quirligen band nicole kidman gegenüber, erfreut sich am wiedersehen mit french quarter (schaut mal einige posts zurück), wird an den betrüblichen split der gowns erinnert, der noch zu be-schreiben ist, darf in eine anni rossi kollaboration hineinhören, nämlich mit dem vielseitigen, sprunghaften und releasefreudigen whitman, ihn sogleich und auch ebenjene anni rossi [...]
If you just rolled out of a bus and wanted to immerse yourself in the newest funnest music playing at artsy dives like Pehrspace and the Vermont House, you’d do well to start by dipping your toes into these tunes, curated by the kids at Cal Arts (way cheerier than those dicks at Otis) and full of mirth and humor and wonderment and lo-fi gung-ho do-it-yourselfitude. Not all of these songs seem to be world premieres, and only a few of these groups actually attend Cal Arts, but with small-band dynamite like Pizza! and Voice on Tape, you just can’t [...]
la-underground.net Download: Sean Carnage's Mondays mega-mix We asked Sean Carnage—interviewed to mark his four years of D.I.Y. all-ages shows here—to make a mixtape that captures a bit of what he loves about music in L.A. Download and listen above and annotated tracklist by Sean below: Realicide "Resisting The Viral Self" Just a brief sample from Robert Inhuman, whose music [...]
Welcome to the second instalment of Brian Deathbombarc's tour of LA. Step into the awesomeness, and say thanks below. The Valley of Smoke is what Native Americans called the area now known as Los Angeles. Geographically predisposed toward fires, dusty air, and an apocalyptic feeling in general, it didn't help in ...
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these. - Adrian ( me ): the Special Goodbye - Country Radio (demo mix) [...]
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