Tiny Creatures was born in May 2006 with its release of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti’s My Molly EP and grew into a gallery space that September when founder and director Janet Kim opened her home to a community of artists and performers in search of a space that could absorb their wildness and reflect their passion. Over the next two years, Tiny Creatures hosted openings, happenings, crafts nights, music and dance performances, film screenings, publication releases, record releases, and a music school where I learned to play the keyboard. Almost two years later, Tiny Creatures is celebrating a [...]
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TRAUERMUSIK a three-part rooftop series exploring the evocation of sorrow through music... PART 1: Soft-Boiled Eggies + Geneva Jacuzzi + Oscar "Sister Mantos" Santos $7 each night, $15 full pass Doors open 8pm eighteen-thirty 1830 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026
Softboiled Eggies Gorgeous and soulful post-punk-inspired baroque-pop that will be appreciated by any fan of the likes of Belle and Sebastian. One of the members of Softboiled Eggies is founder of LA label and community art centre Tiny Creatures , which is also home to the excellent likes of Geneva Jacuzzi and Ariel Pink . Softboiled Eggies - Can You Send The Blame? ( mp3 )
post-party Upset the Rhythm is the independent London label that's always taken good care of Los Angeles—they were one of the labels participating in that first burst of No Age vinyl in 2007 and also put out releases for L.A. bands like Soft Boiled Eggies and BARR and now Foot Village, who will be releasing their [...]
Watching X and My Bloody Valentine put into perspective all these kids making noisy pop music by recalling the rich and fabled genealogy of this newfangled uprising and putting a sincere (albeit wrinkled) face on sounds that were once something controversial and that today's babies take for granted... it must be oddly pleasant to play a show you never would've been asked to play in your own heyday, knowing that tropes you helped invent are propelling smooth-skinned foals into stardom from what middle-aged critics are carelessly referring to as the "outside" or the "fringes" while you wonder where the hell [...]
Band name = awful and disgusting. seriously, wtf. MySpace quote = even grosser Video = kinda fun Song = nice and catchy Sounds like = a happier shoegazier Joy Division fronted by a girl Stop motion animation of girl eating rose petals = pretty cool actually
Pese a que a muchos de nosotros nos pilla así como bastante lejos, no puedo dejar de avisar sobre un magnífico festival que me deja realmente con las ganas de dejar atrás ahorros, trabajo y demás ataduras y embarcarme en un corto -y caro- viaje para recordar viejos tiempos de festivalero. No se trata de un macrofestival al uso como los que nos cargan las pilas en verano, sino un sólo día de celebración post-punk el próximo 16 de noviembre en Los Ángeles. El part time punk traerá a algunos grupos que he [...]
Download: A Certain Ratio "Shack Up" Part Time Punks' Mike Stock texts us that A Certain Ratio have confirmed to headline the Part Time Punks fest on Sun., Nov. 16! They will be joining an already really impressive line-up and pushing it toward the legendary! If you don't know them, they were one of Manchester's best [...]
Ryan from Stop Me If Youve Heard This One Before returns having been locked out of his own blog when Wordpress received a shirty letter from the DMCA (Do they dress as a cowboy, policeman etc)? Read his weary response of " Why Bother? " here . He's slightly peeved at being suspended for promoting an artist with MP3's the record label were themselves hosting for Free on their own site. Over to Ryan for this weeks Ten4Seven: You've probably read about the 'Large Hadron Collider' in the [...]
by Tommy Chong (transcribed by Tommy Chong’s intern, Matt) Hey man, this is gonna be good. Y’see, me and Cheech—the band’s back together! We don’t play music though (incoherent mumbling) So I’m just gonna run through some ideas for the new show, and tour and uh, and stuff and you tell us what’cha think, okay? Okay. Here goes. 1.) Up In Smoke All Over Again Pros: This One makes people think of the first Up In Smoke and how great it was n’ stuff. [...]
"It is as though London stretched unbroken from St Albans to Southend in a tangle of ten-lane four-deck super parkways, hamburger stands, banks, topless drug-stores, hippie hide-outs, Hiltons, drive-in mortuaries, temples of obscure and extraordinary religions, sinless joy and joyless sin, restaurants built to resemble bowler hats, insurance offices built to resemble Babylon, all shrouded below the famous blanket of acrid and corroding smog." Ah, Los Angeles: huge both in population and square footage, unseasonably warm even in January, and home to an awe-inspiring amount of taco trucks (pictured). I don’t know about [...]
The Wire is a radio show about new music. Stream live every Monday and Wednesday 12-1pm (NZ time) via RDU 98.5fm C.O.M.B.I. - It A Late [ C.O.M.B.I. Edits II ] Softboiled Eggies - October Days [ Try It Again ] Sic Alps - Mater [ U.S. Ez ] The RZA - Good Night Kiss (feat. Rev William Burk, Crisis & Thea van Seijen) [ Digi Snacks ] Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend [ Real Animal ] Beck - [...]
Softboiled Eggies. Alright, Softboiled Eggies have been around for a while - but believe it or not this is my first time writing about them on Rock Insider. This project would be a perfect poster child for the art rock movement in Los Angeles. Janet Kim's haunting and at times quivering presence is sound tracked by throwback fuzz-laden guitar and mystifying synths that scream sex appeal. Their tracks teeter precariously from pulsating and driving one minute and retro and dreamy the next. It's [...]
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