Top picks on a monster Thursday night: ► In between dates opening for Coldplay, U.K. electro quartet Metronomy plays the El Rey Theatre, with Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) supporting. That's Metronomy's stylish video for "The Bay," above. ► BRAD , the long-running project featuring Stone Gossard, Regan Hagar, Keith Lowe and Shawn Smith, headline the sold-out Troubadour behind their April release "United We Stand." Newly signed to ATO , local quintet Everest opens. ► U.K. singer James Morrison headlines the Avalon Hollywood, supported by Honeyhoney. [...]
Détective is James Greer (from Guided By Voices), plus the super-sultry sounding Guylaine Vivarat, who plays in an LA band called Useless Keys and used to play in another one called Tennis System, and Rory Modica, who also plays in Useless Keys with Guylaine. They released an EP in February (here ), but Dommage! is not on that. It's a brand new song, the first one in French, but James emailed me that more is coming up (in May). This is an exclusive track for Filles Sourires! I hear a bit of Barbara Carlotti in it, a little [...]

Tips for your Tuesday: ► Buzz Bands LA's monthly songwriter series continues at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park , topped by Chicago-bred, L.A.-based songstress Haroula Rose (pictured), freshly returned from Athens, Ga., where she was working on recording her next album. Rose figures to have some new songs, and she'll be joined by Geronimo Getty , Harley Prechtel-Cortez and Sloan Martin . ► Com Truise heads up a big Check Yo Ponytail 2 night at the Echoplex, with Teengirl Fantasy , Soft Metals [...]
Raise a glass for Elvis: ► The Annual Elvis Presley Birthday Bash — the King would have turned 77 years old today — goes off startinga t 4 p.m. at the Echoplex. The long-running event, staged by Art Fein and now more than 25 years old itself, brings a host of musicians and celebrities to the stage to celebrate and interpret Presley's music. Fun, with no Elvis impersonators. ► Vancouver's Felix Cartal heads up the party at Drai's Hollywood. That's the video for the new Dim Mak Records single "Don't Turn on [...]
LA's Tennis System cite an abiding love for Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus and Mary Chain as their major musical influences. It is hardly surprising that their sound draws huge comparisons to these and other modern contemporaries too. Not simply a homage to what has gone before, the foursome carefully add an injection of their own personality [...]
Tonight's touts: ► Morrissey plays a sold-out show at the Shrine Auditorium. ► It's a night for some very good shoegazer rock at the Satellite — Tennis System (that's their video for "Arcane," above) celebrates the release of its album "Teenagers," with United Ghosts (marking the release of their "Holes Into the Night" 7-inch) and Boxviolet , freshly returned from shows in France, supporting. ► Dutch DJ Sander Kleinenberg , who this summer released his debut studio album "5K," holds forth at Avalon Hollywood. [...]

It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Spinning (mp3) by Roomrunner Aorist (mp3) by [...]
For an unsigned, independent artist, singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald has always been able to coax a big, radio-ready sound out of his bands' recordings, first with Mere Mortals and now with the new quartet United Ghosts . So it goes with the new single "Holes Into the Night," a dreamy, driving slice of neo-shoegaze rock made in Steuerwald's home studio in Silver Lake. In singer-bassist Sha Sabi, guitarist Jason O and drummer Sean Burgess, Steuerwald has found bandmates who share his vision for marrying psychedelic Britpop with electro trappings. "Holes Into the Night," just out as a limited-edition 7-inch (the [...]

Today's song is "Hey, We Tried" by Tennis System. Los Angeles' Tennis System is composed of Matty Taylor (vocals and guitar), Misha Bullock (drums and, on occasion, guitar), Christopher Worchester (guitar and, on occasion, drums), and Guylaine Vivarat (bass). The band's noisy, distorted sound is a lovable and catchy with dreamy vocals beautifully sung. Listen below and for more information on Tennis System, check out their Facebook page. Get the single now on iTunes ! "Hey We Tried"
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Ben Lear : "Scuba Lessons" [mp3] from Lillian: A Folk Opera search for more Ben Lear posts at Largehearted Boy Big Tree : "Seattle [...]

The noisy, earnest legacy of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and Ride lives on in the expansive, catchy pop songs of Los Angeles' Tennis System . Matty Taylor (vocals and guitar), Misha Bullock (drums and, on occasion, guitar), Christopher Norman (guitar and, on occasion, drums), and Guylaine Vivarat (bass) are masters of loud and dirty anthems, but rising above the noise that blankets them are Taylor's beautifully sung, dreamy lyrics inspired by both love and art. Listen hard, and through the distortion, threads of melody [...]
Hier das neue Video der Band Tennis System aus Los Angeles, USofA. " Arcane " erscheint auf der seit Anfang September vorbestellbaren LP Teenagers . Besorgt euch eine Kopie, kramt die olle Lederjacke raus, schnappt euch eine Dose Bier und und zieht einfach mal wieder mit den Jungs los! Tennis System - " Arcane " Directed by Robert Orlowski Tennis System - Facebook Tennis System - Blog

The noisy, earnest legacy of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and Ride lives on in the expansive, catchy-as-hell pop songs of Los Angeles' Tennis System . Matty Taylor (vocals and guitar), Misha Bullock (drums and, on occasion, guitar), Christopher Norman (guitar and, on occasion, drums), and Guylaine Vivarat (bass) are masters of loud and dirty anthems, but rising above the noise that blankets them are Taylor's beautifully sung, dreamy lyrics inspired by both love and art. Listen hard, and through the distortion, threads of melody emerge; these are picturesque songs, full of woe, optimism and yearning. [...]

For your streaming pleasure, here are the latest Friday Night Vids ... Streamable: The Kingdom of Light (vimeo) by Captain Ahab Streamable: Lazy Bones (vimeo) by Wooden Shjips Downloadable: Lazy Bones (mp3) Streamable: Automatic Jail by Jacuzzi Boys Downloadable: Automatic Jail (mp3) [...]
From our own District of Columbia, Tennis System have crafted a new album called Teenagers for release on October 15th. First single "Hey, We Tried" is excellent - beautiful fuzzed out guitars, an awesome buildup and the kind of hook that makes you mistakenly slam down the gas pedal while you're singing along and jamming out. You know what I'm talking about. You can snag the digital copy pre-order via the bandcamp link below, or visit the band's site to pre-order a hard copy. Connect: Facebook | Twitter [...]

It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]

It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]