[Disclosures: Linus of Hollywood is the answer to the trivia question "Who is the first artist to appear in the Buzz Bands column?" (October 2002, for his collaboration with Tim Burgess). Kay Hanley is a notorious Boston Red Sox fan whom I admire despite my lingering bitterness over the 2004 World Series, possibly because she wins cool mom honors for having her kids' names tattooed on her arms.] If it's springtime, my thoughts have turned to baseball ... and any band that has a ridiculously catchy [...]
Can there be too much of a good thing? The Eagle Rock Music Festival — which, if you have any affection for good local music at all, qualifies — is liable to have you sprinting up and down Colorado Boulevard on Saturday. By my count, there are about 70 bands performing on 15 or so stages — and there are other cool happenings, such as Pehrspace's "Pehriscope" (at Swork coffeehouse) — one-time collaborations by artists such as the Monolators, Meredith Meyer and Timonium incorporating projections, films, live soundtracking and more. The festival is neighborhood-y is the best way [...]
[Hey, the Internet tells me it's Teddy Geiger's 21st birthday today. If he's around town, I would surely buy him that first legal drink ...] A gorgeous night for music under the stars? Looks like it. The Killers play to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl, while the Greek Theatre bill has pop fans salivating — Phoenix [pictured], behind its new album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix," headlines, with Metric popping back through town to to remind us how good "Fantasies" is and the Soft [...]
This month's list consists of fourteen songs that clock at about two minutes or less...nuggets of ear-delicious goodness ranging from TV and theme park themes to monologues to mellow album closers. Enjoy! 57.5 BARS by Call Florence Pow I'd like to nominate this song as the theme song for this month's playlist theme. I found this song years ago. I don't remember how I found about these guys, but it's most self-explantory 1:41 of power pop you'll ever find. The lyrics are about as straight-forward as you can get [...]
It was so challenging for me to find sex-related songs in my library of tunes. I mean, I don't have the foggiest idea how innuendo works being the wholesome good boy that I am. O:-) Oh, whom am I kidding?!? Let the debauchery begin... TUSK by Fleetwood Mac In order to have sex, one of the things many people need is a penis. Based on what I've read, this Fleetwood Mac song is about Stevie Nicks' penis...what? Stevie is a woman? Oh never [...]
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Young Guns - "Winter Kiss"
