Mark them calendars! Burger Boogaloo 2013 will take place July 6-7 from noon-9pm in Oakland's idyllic Mosswood Park . Rumors abound as to the entertainment. We got Total Trash Marcos and Amy all hyped up on crawfish and fried veggies to get the latest details... Confirmed acts include: Redd Kross , Jonathan Richman , Ty Segall's Traditional Fools , The Oblivians , Pangea , The Trashwomen , Guantanamo Baywatch , and more to be announced! ( Editor's note: early bird weekend passes go [...]
Frank Yang The weather may have been nigh-on dreadful last Thursday night, but it was going to take more than Winter's last gasp to keep Toronto from venturing out to catch the long-awaited return of some colourfully-named Californians been pioneers at melding punk energy and pop sensibilities since adolescence. No, not Green Day at the Air Canada Centre, silly. I'm talking about Redd Kross at The Horseshoe. Though they returned to active duty in 2006 following a decade's hiatus, the Los Angeles-based band's activity has been somewhat sporadic, though it did include a somewhat [...]
Olivia Malone Some weeks, the inbox is a veritable cornucopia of interesting concert announcements for acts big and small. Compiling the blog posts that collect those up is a genuine delight. And easy. Generally so easy. This was not one of those weeks. Indeed, most of the news was of the "support announced" variety, which isn't necessarily uninteresting - sometimes it's more interesting than the headliner - but it is less easy. Anyways, we'll kick off with New York's
In the late 1990s, power pop genius Eric Carmen of Raspberries fame-embittered, said some, by his failure to write that big hit record he'd spent his whole life dreaming about-disappeared into the wilds of Cambodia. I was a cub reporter who wanted a job, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice job, and when it was over, I'd never want another. I finally discovered Carmen in a cave in the jungle, and everything I saw told me he'd gone insane. There [...]
Photos by Greg Cristman Redd Kross @ Santos 4/6/2013 "It felt a little bit like, who knows if anybody is going to care about a new Redd Kross record. We had no idea," says Steve McDonald. "We were just doing it because we thought it was great and we had to get it out of our systems." They needn't have worried. The album is indeed great. Direct and timeless, with a healthy dose of Beatlesque harmonies, it's everything Redd [...]
Frank Yang I went into this year's Canadian Musicfest with a pretty basic plan - see as little as possible. Okay, that's not really accurate since that would have easily been accomplished by staying home and I was still out four nights in a row, but rather than engage in the club-hopping that the fest usually demands, I opted to choose one thing a night that I was genuinely interested in seeing rather than trek around the city hoping to shake something worthwhile out of the lineup. Wednesday night, that honour went to a show that [...]
Jamie-James Medina Both The xx and Grizzly Bear have pretty well established their bona fides as a couple of the biggest names in what we colloquially call "indie rock" circa 2013, and while neither are quite at the point where they could headline a top-tier festival, they can sure as heck team up for a pretty impressive standalone bill in a festival setting. En route to New York City to play the Governor's Ball , the two acts - last seen hereabouts in the elegant setting of Massey Hall both - will show [...]
Redd Kross finally get back on the road. For the first time since 1997, Redd Kross will embark on its first full-blast run of shows along the east coast and in the Great Lakes area. The band will also join Dinosaur Jr. for Australian dates. The band is [...]
For the first time since 1997, the legendary Redd Kross are touring and playing Kimg Fu Necktie on Sunday. April 7th. The power pop/rock band formed by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald in the late Seventies, and their first few albums - Born Innocent, Neurotica, and Third Eye - remain classics of the genre. Last ... Continue reading
by Bill Pearis As you may remember , legendary L.A. band Redd Kross released Researching the Blues last year, their first album in 15 years. The record, released on Merge, found the McDonald brothers remarkably well-preserved, still kicking out the glammy powerpop they're known for, and their show at last year's CBGB's Festival was a lot of fun. You can stream Researching the Blues below. Redd Kross have just announced a 2013 tour [...]
Sam Jones She & Him are not a band given to mystery. Despite the anonymous name, everyone knows it's Matt Ward and Zooey Deschanel and their sugar-sweet old-timey country-pop sound is pretty well-established at this point. And if you're at all surprised that their third album, announced yesterday as coming May 7, is called Volume 3 , then you really haven't been paying attention. But residents of the Greater Toronto Area looking at the tour dates that accompanied the announcement can be forgiven for scratching their [...]
Desaparecidos - Read Music, Speak Spanish (2002) How we managed to get through the Occupy Movement, not to mention all of the continued distrust and anger aimed at Corporate America, without a single album to define the moment escapes me. Maybe escapes me isn't the best choice of phrase. Bother is better. Yes, it bothers me. We have plenty of indie and mainstream musicians in the Seinfeld tradition who sing about nothing. What we don't have is a new voice. There are the veteran voices, like Bruce Springsteen and the not as veteran voices, like Ted [...]
apparently, neko was not asked about her favorite records of the 2012 mainly due to the fact that she didnt put out a record last year, and apparently people are just fucking stupid. either way, i was informed that i could put her top ten to print and her favorite records are as follows - see below...at the time of this reporting, this blogger has not listened to said record, but plans on it in the near future unless a new mumford and sons or bon iver comes out during that time - thats a joke. you can go a [...]
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2012 was an odd year for me musically, and I largely blame Spotify. The only physical musical media I buy these days is the LP, and I really only do that to help touring bands that I like and to buy reissues of my favorite albums. I still buy a lot of digital-only releases too, but when it comes to actually listening to music, I tend to rely mainly on Spotify. (Or a few specific radio shows .) Especially at work. And that's a problem, at least in terms [...]
Dear 2012, don't let the door hit you in the ass. Dear friends, please be safe tonight: ► The key here will be to dress as well as the band: R&B revivalists Vintage Trouble , already huge just about everywhere but their hometown, bring their retro rock to the Roxy Theatre, where Sy Smith and DJ Dayle will spin some old-school goodness. ► Gonna get loud at the Alexandria Hotel downtown, where "Ballroom Blitz" brings Redd Kross and the Melvins to the stage. ► The Henry [...]
ward robinson Some bands are legends and some bands are entire civilizations—that’s Redd Kross, whose discography goes back to that first pre-cease-and-desist-call (always a promising sign) EP in 1981 and then zig-zags between the fringe and the front-and-center of American guitar music. I don’t know if Redd Kross have seen it all, but I think they might have heard it all, maybe even by the time they put out all-covers LP Teen Babes from Monsanto, and their newest Researching The Blues is the kind of record that reminds you why you even care about [...]
"Don't call it a comeback" is usually a phrase uttered self-protectively by musicians who are very much coming back from some degree of obscurity. Dr. Dre wasn't exactly absent during the seven-year stretch between his first and second albums ("California Love," anybody?), but his 1999 sophomore release 2001 is littered with lines like "Ladies pay homage, but haters say Dre fell off/ How, nigga? My last album was The Chronic ." If he ever gets around to releasing Detox , it'll surely be stacked with similar "I never went away" rhetoric (and, undoubtedly, lyrics about headphones.) [...]
There were albums I loved, albums I liked, albums I appreciated and albums I avoided in 2012. Because of my regional focus, I spent an inordinate amount of time with music from Los Angeles artists . And strangely for me, a lot of the hyped bands failed to resonate; stuck in traffic, I'd rather have played that Killers album or one of the Green Day discs than Alt-J. I'm sure it was just a phase. For what it's worth, my favorite 20 albums of the year: [...]
Looking for an alternative to watching five hours of Ryan Seacrest while your Mom serves you tortilla chips and mild salsa with a glass of bubbly grape soda? There are plenty of great concerts scheduled for New Year's Eve 2012, which we've highlighted for you below. New York City - Afrojack : Pier 94 - Amanda Palmer (covering Prince's Purple Rain ): Terminal 5 - Azealia Banks : Boom Boom Room - Blonde Redhead and Beach Fossils : Irving Plaza [...]
The Bay Bridged
Chromewaves
The Vinyl District
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Earbuddy
The Key
I Rock Cleveland
Captain's Dead
L.A. RECORD
Baby, You Got a Stew Goin'!
Buzz Bands
Stereogum
Consequence Of Sound
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