After taking last summer to record new music, Los Angeles based Letting Up Despite Great Faults, has hit the road again this month. Joining Future Sound's Rumble Tour, the band played a string of FREE west coast dates before venturing off to Austin for SXSW and then Japan. Expect to hear some new songs played live as well as recorded material later this year. Lift is a bonus track that was previously released on the Japanese version of their self-titled album. Download Lift [...]
High Fives all around - Hands @ The Echoplex (photo by Oliver Walker) We just got sent a batch of pics from Thursday night's RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES @ The Echoplex from Oliver Walker and we had to share a few of our favorites. We also wanted to take another opportunity to thank not just HANDS, TV GIRL and Rumble February tour band LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS , but to all the bands and DJ's that played last week in all the cities. Another thanks goes to Liz and [...]
THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO TONIGHT @ BAR PINK - FREE Featuring TV Girl, Dirty Gold, Letting Up Despite Great Faults and DJ Corey Casey The Rumble has made it's way down the coast from Seattle on Monday night through Los Angeles Thursday night and now pulls into port in San Diego tonight at BAR PINK in North Park for night 5. San Diego is well represented by two of the latest 'next big things' from SD in TV GIRL and DIRTY [...]
NEW HOME - NEW PARTNERS - 2011 BRINGS THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES TO THE ECHOPLEX TONIGHT Featuring Hands, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, TV Girl + DJ's Rollo & Grady & LLDope - FREE! Night #4 of Rumble week continues but this time on our home turf, which is now a new playground - Echo Park - as we kickoff our new location at The Echoplex . We pushed East side to be closer to our buds at ORIGAMI VINYL and to eat [...]
Things to consider to quell those surprise-show anxiety attacks: ► Shadow Shadow Shade continues its residency at the Satellite — I'm fresh out of superlatives for how this band can lift your live — and for Week 2 Le Switch , Chasing Kings and the Hundred Days . ► Futuresounds' monthly Rumble event moves from 3 Clubs to the Echoplex — the free show features two good up-and-comers, Hands and Letting Up Despite Great Faults . ► Eli "Paperboy" Reed gets [...]
MP3: TV Girl - "If You Want It" MP3: Dirty Gold - "California Sunrise" MP3: Letting Up Despite Great Faults - "In Steps" San Diego's TV Girl are new to the music scene, but they're already getting a lot of press. Aside from generating local buzz, the lo-fi rockers recently caught the ears of Pitchfork, [...] Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.
Recently, I went from completely unemployed to way overemployed, back to kind of employed, and finally I'm normally employed . Economy, blah blah blah - I'm sure we all could go on and on. The moral of my story is: music helps get you through it, for sure. In between joblessness and constantly writing , this has been a good chunk of what's up in my Recently Played. The playlist for all the busy madness as of late: The Woodlands - In The Dark On Monday (Heavy Hands Remix) [...]
Blackbird Blackbird with Phantom Kicks and Letting Up Despite Great Faults Wednesday (TONIGHT!) 9 February 2011 9pm FREE The MILK Bar San Francisco, CA [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Blackbird Blackbird - Blurring Lines from Summer Heart (2010) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Letting Up Despite Great Faults - In Steps from Letting Up Despite Great Faults (2009)
With San Francisco's mighty NOISE POP MUSIC FESTIVAL just a few weeks away, we using tonight's RUMBLE: SAN FRANCISCO party as an official warm up date for our partner's event and the SF collective have assembled a lineup worthy of NP 2011. Headlining the evening will be SF's own BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD , an act that has broken out and captured new fans everywhere, underplaying in this intimate setting as a token of giving back. PHANTOM KICKS, another hometown hero, supports BB, with Rumble touring act taking [...]
This Saturday night I'll be heading out to Bar Pink for my first ever 'Rumble' show featuring an incredible lineup that includes TV Girl , Dirty Gold and Letting Up Despite Great Faults . I've been listening to TV Girl for sometime now, but I missed their debut show at the Casbah, so I'm excited for this one. It's a free show, so come out if you're in the area. I've seen some of my favorite, unexpected shows at Bar Pink- they always have really good local bands playing on Weekends, and [...]
THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND @ HOLOCENE Night #2 of Rumble Week slides into Portland this evening to Holocene for a lineup showcasing three bands we've followed for some time and finally get to team up with in HARLOWE & THE GREAT NORTH WOODS, PIGEONS , and LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS . The party is free to the city of Portland! Harlowe & The Great North Woods (Photo by Drew Masters) [...]
If you are as penniless as I am and need as many free shows as you can get, check out what's coming up from Future Sounds at Holocene tomorrow: rumbliest rumble you can tumble upon: THE RUMBLE PDX . The name always makes it sound pretty intense, but you won't get hurt, I promise. Tomorrow's installment pits the cautious cooing of Harlowe and The Great North Woods against the not-quite cooing of Pigeons , and tosses in the relentless Letting Up Despite Great Faults . And all for three easy payments [...]
It is with great trepidation, and perhaps one raised eyebrow, that I share the music of San Diego's Trung Ngo and Brad Petering, a/k/a TV Girl — and not because chillwave and its assorted low-fi infections have become a pox on the land. On the duo's first EP, they sample appropriate steal Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me," and if you're going to tread on that hallowed ground, you might want to try a little reverence, or at least more adroitness. The EP has a couple chugging numbers, "I Don't Care" and the [...]
Shaking off the downtime THE RUMBLE makes a big return tonight @ The Havana Social Club in Seattle tonight with a rare 3 band lineup that features the Rumble touring act for February - LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS - supporting Seattle's BEAT CONNECTION . The special addition to the evening is Sweden's OH LAND , a lady who has been making plenty of noise up the coast this last week in stops up to Seattle. The party is FREE , and gets going early with Oh Land [...]
THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES returns in 2011 in a new home - THE ECHOPLEX starting next Thursday night!! After 2+ years at our very comfortable home at 3 Clubs - a venue we'll forever love and visit and our local - we're moving further East to Echo Park to be closer to one of our latest new additions to the LA family - ORIGAMI VINYL . On February 10th we'll kick things off downstairs with 3 acts we're very proud to be supporting in HANDS, LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS [...]
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Careful when you lift the lid on this pot o' gold. A lot of steamy hot jams ready to jump out and burn you if aren't careful. For more jams by any of these artists use the 'tags' links at the bottom of the post! NEW RELEVENT JAMS ♫ Peter Bjorn & John - Breaker Breaker / PBnJ are back and wielding way more buzzsaw like-ability than on their last sleeping pill! Wooo! Second taste "Second Chance" is also a [...]
Future Sounds has moved well beyond being friends with San Diego blogger FRIENDS WITH BOTH ARMS . We've been so smitten by their daily entries and new discoveries that we convinced them to join the party at THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO going forward. Nada and her crew not only focus on the booming SD music scene, they seem to find acts crawling out of everywhere, and I've been most impressed with their video sessions and their frequent mixtape series , and if you time it [...]
Oh My! Oh Land to play The Rumble Seattle Ok, so our RUMBLE: SEATTLE party on Monday night was already destined to be breathing room only, with BEAT CONNECTION making it personal and playing the intimate setting of the Havana Social Club. February's Rumble touring artist - LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS - was also there to show off their new music as they prep to come out big in 2011, and now we've added a rare third band to the bill - OH LAND! [...]
The Rumble is a free concert series put on by Future Sounds . Every month their goal is to promote cool bands by getting people to a free show. Normally the concert is one local band, and one from out of town. The upcoming Rumble features Seattle favorite Beat Connection and Letting Up Despite Great Faults(from CA). I don't think they'll have trouble getting people here....( FBook Event to RSVP ). Letting Up Despite Great Faults - 10 Lift (b-side) Letting Up Despite Great Faults - In Steps [...]
Los Angeles, California indie synth fuzz pop Letting Up Despite Great Faults are about to release some new music. Their self-titled debut garnered a lot of love underneath the fromage of indie rock bands. But even the likes of Pitchfork and AOL's Spinner were able to unearth their gems. Though there hasn't been an official [...]
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