Just as the NFL Draft, with all the pomp and circumstance that surround it, is considered by some to be America's fourth major professional sport, the first few months of every year find the coming Festival Season's numerous events unveiled in quick succession, a noteworthy and exciting music-centric stretch in its own right. Rumors abound, travel plans are made, and sometimes vitriolic meditations on the Current And Future State Of Music™ are hard to avoid. But sardined among reliably controversial announcements from Hangout Music Festival , Jazz Fest, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo and Coachella is the one press release that is [...]
Wilmington, California's Left Alone share many musical leanings with the band Rancid. (In fact, they lean pretty much identically). Their new video for "Sad Story" is (presumably) a light-hearted look into what the life of a punk is like in Wilmington. Car cuisin', grafitti decoratin', fist fightin', and rockin' out in a studio with squeeky [...]
SomaCow Media is proud to present ComaSow brought to you by Vans Warp Tour 2009 . We started out this episode discussing the May SomaCow Leaderboard possible winners. The last thing we saw was Glenn Webber and Soundguy fighting for first but we'll have to wait until SomaCow's live Friday show to find out! You can find out more about the leaderboard here on our forum ! We usually do 30 minute episodes with three-four songs from an album. This album [...]
Somebody has deep pockets. The teenage L.A. rock band Acidic won an eBay auction to play a main-stage slot at Sunday's second day of the Bamboozle Left Festival at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre — with a bid of more than $13,000. The money benefits the One Love for Chi Foundation, the charity that is helping Deftones bassist Chi Cheng with his medical expenses as he recovers from a injuries he sustained in an auto accident in November. The Green Day-channeling Acidic, fronted by 16-year-old Michael Gossard, will play at 2 p.m. Sunday, about 16 hours after [...]
From The Tragic Treasury: [MP3] Gothic Archies ? ?Walking My Gargoyle? From Funnel Cloud: [MP3] Hem ? ?Not California? From Ole Tarantula: [MP3] Robyn Hitchcock ? ?(A Man?s Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs From Boys and Girls in America: [MP3] The Hold Steady ? ?Chips Ahoy!? From Ben Kweller: [MP3] Ben Kweller ? ?Penny on the Train Track? From Dead American Radio [MP3] Left Alone ? ?Justino? From Rabbit Fur Coat: [MP3] Jenny Lewis [...]
I discovered these guys at the Rock Star Journalist blog (which you can conveniently access via the Water-Test Approved list to the right). If you like Rancid, you like Left Alone. They are clearly influenced by the CA ska-punkers, and recently signed with Hellcat Records (which was co-founded by Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong). While ska and punk play large roles in their music, Left Alone also
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