The land of sunshine and giant palms seems a strange breeding ground for the rustic sounds of the Record Company , but as the L.A. trio's "Superdead" EP testifies, the blues can happen anywhere. Director John Cizmas' video for "This Crooked City" flashes to the alluring and the hardscabble while singer-guitarist Chris Vos, bassist Alex Stiff and Marc Cazorla do it the old-school way. The EP is still available for free download here . ||| Live: The Record Company plays the Mint on May 15 and Make Music Pasadena on June 1.
Tumbleweed Wanderers, Guy Fox, and The Record Company take over the Independent for a night of new music.

Big, big schedule for Thursday: ► Wavves play a Red Bull Sound Select tonight at the Echoplex, joined by Hands , Incan Abraham and HOTT MT . That's the video for the title track of Wavves' latest album "Afraid of Heights," above. ► Upstairs at the Echo, Telekinesis rock the tunes from its latest album "Dormarion," supported by Merge labelmates Mount Moriah . ► It's a tale of two Tillmans at Satellite, where Har Mar Superstar (Sean Tillman) headlines and Josh Tillman (Father [...]
David Lowery of bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven thought the internet would become a vibrant new marketplace for creators. Instead, he says, the internet era is worse for artists than the infamously unfair record company system.
First of all, The Ranch Party was awesome even though most of what I remember was being stuck in over an hour of traffic to check-in, the school bus ride that took us to and from the festival and how many people were camping out was ridiculous! Overall I had a great time and below [...]

Tomorrow in the Topanga Canyon / Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, the first Ranch Party festival is going down. It's a great line up of bands and DJs that the expected crowd of 1,000+ are sure to love all day and all night. The Los Angeles Times' Pop & Hiss music blog featured a nice write up on the festival you can check out here . Along with an added charity fee, a portion of the proceeds from the festival will go to ranchkids.org, an organization that works with at risk and special needs youth. Here's [...]
The Ranch is an epic live music benefit party, nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles. In the spirit of the music scenes that came together in LA's canyons, The Ranch Party allows you to come camp out at the top of Mulholland Drive for a full day & night of LA bands, [...]
The Ranch is an epic live music benefit party, nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles. In the spirit of the music scenes that came together in LA's canyons, The Ranch Party allows you to come camp out at the top of Mulholland Drive for a full day & night of LA bands, [...]
Saturday — the fun starts early and runs late: ► Eastern Conference Champions head up a big lineup on the Local Music Stage at Chinatown's Lunar New Year Festival . The free day of music starts at noon and also features Troup , Mind the Gap , Spirit Vine , Western Scene and Daniel Ahearn & the Jones . See set times at the end of this post . ► Pink and the Hives team up for a big show at [...]

The Record Company's sweat-’n’-booze blues has found an ardent following in Chris Vos' adopted home of Los Angeles. The Wisconsin-bred singer guitarist and bandmates Alex Wood and Marc Cazorla have released an EP of originals , an EP of covers and, improbably, induced Silver Lake crowds to dance and sing along to Freddy Cannon's "Tallahassee Lassie," among other chestnuts from back when. The trio is hunkering down to make a full-length now, and if (as their story goes) the threesome initially bonded over John Lee Hooker, his spirit still courses through the veins of "Turn Me Loose." [...]
Record companies have been faking millions of YouTube views : nedhepburn : Sony/BMG alone faked 850 million views. Payola scandal 2.0!

You know how exciting it is to receive new music from a band you love? Well, you can imagine our excitement when our buddies in The Record Company sent us their recently compiled Covers EP. As the name implies, it collects a series of the band's cover songs including takes on The Beastie Boys, The Stooges, The Grateful Dead, and more. It's a damn good time. And, just in time for the holidays, they've also recorded a bluesy, rootsy take on Elvis' "Blue Christmas." This one came in a little late for the official [...]

The Record Company has been one of LA's fastest rising bands with their blend of blues and Americana. They kill live, and just concluded a successful November residency at The Satellite. It's their tradition to end with a rocking cover, and last Monday's show concluded with "Tallahassee Lassie", which was a 602s hit for Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon. The crowd was all over this one, singing along with the chorus. The band recorded an EP of cover songs including this one, so check out their Facebook page for more info. By Bruce Rave [...]

One of the highlights of the Record Company's deliriously sweaty, deliciously down-home residency this month at the Satellite was the trio's cover of Freddy Cannon's "Tallahassee Lassie," which indeed was more suited to F-L-A than L-A. To hear a Silver Lake crowd shout along to that chorus was a little bit special. Well, it turns out Chris Vos, Alex Stiff and Marc Cazorla have more than that up their sleeve. Today they released the free "Covers" EP that includes Cannon's classic along with renditions of the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "No Fun," the Grateful Dead's [...]
Everything digested from last week? Here's your Monday madness: ► No Doubt is back for a second night in their big run at the Gibson Amphitheatre, this time supported by Grouplove and IO Echo . ► Chicago's Wild Belle [ our recent missive ] visits the Echo, but just as important for us is the SoCal appearance by Deep Sea River , the Seattle band fronted by O.C. native Jessica Dobson. She has spent much of the year playing guitar for the Shins ; now Deep [...]
Here's your Monday fun: ► The Joy Formidable — its new album "Wolf's Law" is on the way in the new year — rocks the Troubadour tonight. Opening is Orange County-bred five-piece J. Thoven . Above is the Joy Formidable's video for the song "Cholla." ► The Record Company will premiere a new video at their Satellite residency tonight — and they will welcome a stellar supporting cast that includes Soft Swells , A House for Lions and Irontom . ► In [...]
Monday madness: ► Jack’s Mannequin is back for a second and final (it's the band's last show ever) at the El Rey Theatre. ► Mumford & Sons are back for their second night at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Apache Relay and Dirty Projectors supporting. ► Sky Ferreira heads up a lineup that includes DWNTWN and the Rebel Light at the RSVP-only It's a School Night at Bardot. That's Ferreira's video for her new song "Sad Dream," above. ► And it's [...]

File under: Too Much for a Monday: ► Leonard Cohen plays a sold-out Nokia Theatre. The 78-yard-old icon's latest album is titled "Old Ideas" and came out in January. ► Swedish hardcore outfit Refused plays the final date of its reunion tour at the Fonda Theatre, supported by the Bronx — who have a fourth album on the way and are playing just a few days short of the 10th anniversary of their first club show (Nov. 10, 2002, at the Troubadour). ► LP rocks the [...]

We've got a veritable menagerie of bands in our ticket giveaways this week - if you want to catch Crocodiles, Tiger Army, Sea of Bees and The Dodos (along with many more) on us, read on. To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged[dot]c om with your full name in the body and the concert you’re entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name once to only one contest. Thursday, October 18th The Soft Pack , [...]