Jasmine Ash's Beneath The Noise is released on Valentine's Day – a perfect feel-good album for your pre-game evening of hearts 'n love and all that stuff.
Your jam-packed Thursday itinerary: ► Its new album "Blues Funeral" just out, the Mark Lanegan Band [ praises sung earlier this week] headlines the Echoplex. ► Brooklyn electro-pop outfit Class Actress — the brainchild of producers Mark Richardson and Scott Rosenthal and singer Elizabeth Harper, headline the Echo behind their recent release "Rapprocher." That's Harper and Sina Araghi, above, starring in the Paris-filmed video for "Bienvenue," directed by Clement Gino and Gregory Faure. Supporting their Echo gig are Superhumanoids and American Royalty . ► Joss [...]

The man who has the soul of Joe Strummer - NICO STAI - brings his bag of songs to The Satellite tomorrow night and put together a bill of bands also worth the $8 admission. OH DARLING, STRANGE TALK and our good friend, JOHN CARPENTER , all support Stai. We go back some time with Nico and whenever we haven't seen or heard from him in awhile, it only means he's written another 50 songs, each one preaching the blues like the one before it. BUY TICKETS HERE [...]

Oh Darling for Los Angeles via Portland, Oregon just released, " Brave The Sound "

Connect with Oh Darling | Twitter | Facebook | Myspace | Website This is tomorrow! I will be there you should be too. Read up on them NOW HERE ! Who is coming out???

Connect with Oh Darling | Twitter | Facebook | Myspace | Website If you are looking for a one hit wonder, than you better keep looking. LA-based quartet, Oh Darling represents completely crafted out sugary-indie-guitar-pop. They actually are very reminiscent to the likes of some early 902s 4AD & Rykodisc bands that created the good music movement back in the day, (like Tanya Donnelly's Belly & even some Throwing Muses ). With that said, this record is [...]
New Music Releases - Tuesday, April 26, 2011: - About Group - Start and Complete - The Airborne Toxic Event - All At Once ( Stream ) - Augustana - Augustana - Bootsy Collins - The Funk Capitol Of The World - Cass McCombs - Wit's End - David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - [...]
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Los Angeles has a long lineage of female-fronted, New Wave-inspired pop, and Portland expatriates Oh Darling are about to fashion their own chapter in that history. The foursome of Jasmine Ash, Daven Hall, J. Marie Hall and Jake Endicott follow a familiar formula — sticky-sweet tunes, brawny riffs and rhythms, nifty lyrical subterfuge — and do it well. Behind Ash's breezy vocals, Oh Darling's songs have floated into many a television show and commercial. Their single "Prettiest Thing" will appear in the Disney movie "Prom" in late April — just in time for the April 26 release of [...]

With the last band being from Portland, here's a band who comes from the same parts but are now part the Los Angeles music family. Oh Darling is not a Beatles tribute band but their songs have just as much tenderness with Jasmine Ash's bright vocals. Indie pop to their core, their songs are sweet but not saccharine-sweet which is why Oh Darling still ring credible in my ears. Enticing to those who appreciate a well-crafted melody upon great musical accompaniment but accessible enough to gain new fans of lilting pop songs, [...]

Wake Up Lucid's no-frills blues feels like a breath of fresh air amid all today's tricked-out psychedelia and hybridized noise. The project of cousins Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca, the trio's debut EP "Look Alive People," recorded to 2-inch tape at the Village in West L.A. a year ago, crackles with bite-sized riffs and taut rhythms. Occasionally you'll get a whiff of the Dead Weather or Wolfmother, and darned if singer-guitarist Ryan Baca's wail doesn't sound like "Been Caught Stealing"-era Perry Farrell on "Two Cents," but mostly "Look Alive" affirms the muscle of a good old-fashioned power trio. And [...]

Oh Darling - Photo By Kyle Oddson Recommended Los Angeles Shows – January 11th – January 17th Monday, January 11th The French Semester/ The Monolators / Manhattan Murder Mystery @ The Echo (Free) Weed Diamond and Tan Dollar @ Synchronicity Space Tuesday, January 12th Queen Kwong EP Release Party @ Spaceland Seven Saturdays / The Parson Red Heads / Go West Young Man @ Bootleg Olin & The [...]

"A band that has drawn a litany of comparisons– from Can and Radiohead, to Lake Trout and Tortoise, to Godspeed and Sigur Ros – Bellflur challenges genre-specificity. They thrive in lush space and musical grandeur just as easily as in odd time signatures, bare-boned harmonies and reticence". Perched on the edge between perfection and chaos, Bellflur seem to relish those split beats in time and dreamy bass adventures. Sure, the heady mixture easily overpowers your senses, ultimately becoming quite painless while reverting to mortal combat in the form of [...]

[Getting back into town today after a little road trip. Thanks to my pinch-bloggers the past few days; happy birthday to Stewart Copeland; and here's a full plate of music goodies from which to sample tonight:] My trip to the heartland yielded a good read or two, including this Riverfront Times interview with Son Volt's Jay Farrar on his band's new album "American Central Dust." The quintet plays the Wiltern tonight with the Cowboy Junkies . ... The "Also I Like to Rock" free concert [...]

Far be it from me to piss off record company reps and never get any more free music, but really – this latest purging of the mailbox yielded some pretty slim pickings. A lot of remixes of this or of that; a lot of whiny "indie" bands; a lot of general shite, to be quite honest. Where are the damn rock and roll bands? Did they take April off? The stuff I've posted is the best of the litter – make of that what you will. There are a couple of decent things here: The Army Navy [...]
##### Oh Darling Tour Announcement & Nice Nice giveaway ####Things are heating up for a Portland based indie rock band. Since releasing their debut record "Nice Nice" last Fall, signing with North Star Media and Creative Works Records, Oh Darling the cute indie rock band from the Pacific Northwest has been through a whirlwind of action.This Spring they're hitting the ground running with a 10

I can't stop listening to sad songs.... catharsis or masochism? It's difficult to tell sometimes, eh? But Friday nights are times to just kick back and let it flow... whatever it is. For once in a long while, I've worked a whole week and I've earned this Friday night. That's a mutherfuckin good feeling, let me tell you! Here, have some tunes... kick it, enjoy the hell outta your weekend, your woman, your man, your kids, your whatever, xoxo The Bow Song mp3 Perhapsy (debut album available June 16) This complex guitar, [...]
##### Oh Darling Tour Announcement & Nice Nice giveaway ####Things are heating up for a Portland based indie rock band. Since releasing their debut record "Nice Nice" last Fall, signing with North Star Media and Creative Works Records, Oh Darling the cute indie rock band from the Pacific Northwest has been through a whirlwind of action.This Spring they're hitting the ground running with a 10
##### Oh Darling Tour Announcement & Nice Nice giveaway ####Things are heating up for a Portland based indie rock band. Since releasing their debut record "Nice Nice" last Fall, signing with North Star Media and Creative Works Records, Oh Darling the cute indie rock band from the Pacific Northwest has been through a whirlwind of action.This Spring they're hitting the ground running with a 10
Portland Oregon's Oh Darling uses sublimely cute female vocals and guitar pop to charm their way into your ears on their new album "Nice Nice". This is music that helps to prevent a finals week break down. If you don't have a crushing amount of work to complete by mid May, I suggest you frolic outside to their music. Oh Darling - Shoulda Never AZLTRON MUSIC BLOG