So we kind of forgot about Weekend Tunage last - sorry to the fans for that. Hopefully we'll make up for it this week. Today's Weekend Tunage ain't exactly new, but its new to me. Smith Westerns are a band hailing from Chicago, and their debut single is appropriately enough entitled Weekend . It was released back in January, but what the hay, lets give it a whirl. Sign up below to get a free [...]
Arctic Monkeys are set to co-headline a Hollywood Bowl performance in Los Angeles with TV On The Radio . The band will play the famous venue on September 25th. Also set to play the event are Panda Bear , Warpaint , and Smith Westerns . Tickets for the event go on sale Saturday, June 18 at 10am. For more information visit Hollywoodbowl.com .
Spike Press is Chicago-based illustrator and designer John Solimine. After cutting his teeth on screen-printed posters, John has gone on to work for such clients as American Express, The Chicago Tribune, and Nike, while earning recognition from Communication Arts and Print Magazine. I was instantly drawn to the gradient effect in the Smith Westerns poster above, check out more at Spike Press .
I'm already excited about The National, Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten coming to the Hollywood Bowl this summer, but the magnitude of this recently announced show is beyond awesome (via YSTS ). You could remove any of the two bands on this bill and the demand would still be enormous. TV on the Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns [...]
If you're more into flannel and less about mosh pits, then consider the other massive one-day concert planned for the City of Angels. On September 25th, Arctic Monkeys and TV on the Radio will co-headline the 18,000-person capacity Hollywood Bowl, with Panda Bear , Warpaint , and Smith Westerns serving as openers. Tickets go on sale June 18th at hollywoodbowl.com . There will also be an Arctic Monkeys fan pre-sale on June 13th.
Review by Michelle da Silva (@michdas) Photo by David Thai from Sasquatch! Music Festival 2011 (@david_thai) About a year after Yeasayer had played Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom, they were back on that exact same stage, headlining a tour with Chicago-based relative newbies Smith Westerns. And while Yeasayer didn't necessarily have a new album to tour, their [...]
Aside from a pre-album surprise show at the Natural History Museum and a late afternoon slot at Coachella 2010, Yeasayer somehow managed to leave Southern California out of their Odd Blood tour dates. They returned this week for two packed nights at the Music Box in Hollywood, giving their Los Angeles fans a bit of what they missed, as well as quite a bit of what's to come, debuting three songs off of their yet-to-be-titled third LP. Opener no. 1 was listed as Hush Hush and at around [...]
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Smith Westerns / Mr. Small's / 06.10.2011 / Doors 7:00 / $12 Words by Brendan I don't think the word "precocious" gets thrown around a lot in indie rock circles. It's hard to imagine any band's career lasting long enough so that the term could even be applied retrospectively. And who wants to be that dude who was soooo wrong about saying that band was gonna go places and then they totally didn't man, am I right? Whatever. Smith Westerns [...]
[Birthday candles are blazing today for Steven McDonald, whom youngsters know as the bass slinger in OFF! but others may remember as a bratty punk rocker . Cheers.] So many sold-out shows for a Tuesday — here are three that aren't: ► Canadian rockers the Sam Roberts Band (pictured) headline the Troubadour (with Motopony opening) behind their album "Collider." It's fairly straight-ahead rock, a little blues, a little Strokes. Here's a small taste, a song featuring [...]
Last night Yeasayer returned to television with the new song "Devil And The Deed," an anxious cut of backbeat new wave with Anand Wilder out front, fog by their ankles, and synths and falsetto through the hook. The band's on tour right now still supporting Odd Blood , so while it's not quite time to get excited about a new LP, it is good to know they're spotlighting new material - in addition to "Devil," Yeasayer performed two more previously unreleased songs (one titled "Henrietta") at their show later in the evening at L.A.'s Music Box with tour support [...]
The White Arrows @ The Bootleg Theater tonight If you don't have tickets, there is no sense trying to get into the James Blake/Nite Jewel show at the Troubadour tonight, and Yeasayer with the Smith Westerns at the Music Box is $25, so the real score for the evening is the FREE event taking place at The Bootleg Theater this evening as WHITE ARROWS continue their May residency with some serious support bands. The undercard reads like a list of FS favorites, from our new love, GARDENS [...]
The Sasquatch! Music Festival owns Memorial Day weekend. It's a festival driven by its scenery, a gorgeous one in fact overlooking the majestic Columbia River Gorge, and features a hefty number of large and emerging musical acts. Last summer, Audio Milk had the honor of covering the festival , paying close attention to the smaller acts rather than indie heavyweights such as LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, and MGMT. For this year's event, you can expect the same style of coverage with a large photo diary and tons of exclusive artist interviews. Below are some of our most anticipated sets [...]
I have a confession to make. I've never been to a proper festival. Not the kind that gets covered by all the big blogs and newspapers, not the kind where people from all over the country drop everything to go, and certainly not the kind where you camp out for four days. Soon, though, my festival cherry will be popped by the prom king of music festivals, Sasquatch! I'm so excited, I think I may actually punch someone! I've been told time and time again that Sasquatch is one of the best fests in the US. It's been [...]
Smith Westerns look a bit caught off-guard (or drunk), but still manage to produce a stellar cover of Tom Petty's American Girl for the AV Club.
Smith Westerns cover Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers O portal A.V Club surgiu com uma iniciativa com o nome de Undercovered 2011 . O projeto tem reunido novas bandas para apresentarem covers (de uma listagem de músicas já pré selecionadas) em um pequeno estúdio. A bola da vez foi o Smith Westerns que escolheu a música American Girl de Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers , que teve destaque no final dos anos 70. Até aí tudo bem, porém, os integrantes da banda estavam bebaços e ainda sim se [...]
88.1 WKNC's Pick of the Week 3/2 By WKNC DJ Margot Musically, my parents and I do not agree on much. They raised me on ABBA, Moody Blues and everything 70s. By high school, I had dropped everything oldies for the indie music that is so prevalent in our generation. But, after giving them a good listen of the Smith Westerns new album, Dye It Blonde , I had the whole family agree on a band that didn't hit their peak in 1978. [...]
The Glam youngsters took a sloppy, bored, somehow triumphant(ly disengaged) stab at Tom Petty's "American Girl" for Onion A.V.'s Undercover 2011 series. As they tweeted : "We did this awful cover of American Girl. GO FIND IT. #dontdrinkat3pm #shouldhavecared." It works better than Titus Andronicus' murky They Might Be Giants impersonation , so even if you wanna punk slap them, maybe drinking at 3PM/not caring isn't a bad thing after all: Read More...
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