Artist: The Black Apples

Your Saturday selections: ► Tenlons Fort 's brief return to L.A. prompts another show. This time Jack Gibson is joined by Avi Zahner-Isenberg (of Avi Buffalo ) and Will Courtney [who will be also be playing our SecondTuesdays show on Jan.10 ] at Lot 1 Cafe. ► The Smell continues to celebrate their 14th anniversary . Best Coast picks up where No Age left off last night. [That's their melodramatically Drew Barrymore-directed video for "Our Deal" above.] Tonight's lineup also includes Abe Vigoda , Dunes , [...]

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SWAHILI BLONDE, THE BLACK APPLES, RESIDUAL ECHOES, AND SECRET CIRCUIT ON MONDAY OCT. 10TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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A WEEKEND AT SILVERLAKE JUBILEE The Silverlake Jubilee this year was quite the event: two days packed full of excellent musical talent, delicious food and drink, and friends old and new. After downing a Deschutes and watching Will Wiesenfeld change his pants in the green room I saw a little bit of LA fitness phenom SWEAT SPOT before walking down to catch the end of JAIL WEDDINGS . The mood on the street was buoyant, which was strange considering that the world was supposed to end [...]

This installment of our intermittent mixtapes, The Buzzsicle, Vol. 13, is devoted to the weekend's second annual Silverlake Jubilee , which gives you a lot of bang for 5 bucks. I've compiled an hour's worth of music from 18 of the artists playing the festival. Enjoy. ||| Download: The Buzzsicle 13 (84 MB) After the jump, the tracklisting: Songs by 18 of the bands playing the 2011 Silverlake Jubilee, May 21-22. Mix curated by [...]

• buzzbands - The Buzzsicle 13: Silverlake Jubilee 2011 Mix

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Frankie Alvaro organized this benefit for Japan which is gonna be more than a text message, to actually take some money and donate to a charity that won't sit on the $$$ for years (Hi, Red Cross!). So he's throwing a party at Alex's Bar [2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, CA 90804] with a [...]

PONDEROSA AND BLACK APPLES ON WEDNESDAY MAR. 23RD AT THE BOOTLEG THEATER, 2220 BEVERLY BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:30PM/ $8/ 21+

Shawn Malone The Black Apples "Mutiny On" (from their self-titled lp out now on Albino Crow ) The Black Apples use two drummers to span the gap between the Sonics at their most primitive, Dick Dale at his blistering best and the brotherly harmonies of the post- Pet Sounds Beach Boys. Their new self-titled LP is surprisingly technical, given their raucous live reputation—you won't have expected the more delicate tracks, decorated with violins and finger-picked nylon-string guitars. "Coming Home" starts out with twenty heavy [...]

So BEACH HOUSE @ The Music Box is sold out, and the town is full of shows this evening, but the sleeper and real steal of the night is happening at The Satellite as SHADOW SHADOW SHADE continue their February residency and heads up a lineup that's powerful from top to bottom. New Orleans' based GENERATIONALS have been one of our favorite new acts in some time, and they support SSS with Brooklyn's MINKS and LA's THE [...]

BLACK APPLES, VOICE ON TAPE, HALLOWEEN SWIM TEAM, AND MY PET SADDLE ON TUESDAY FEB. 1ST AT THE HIP KITTY, 502 WEST FIRST STREET, CLAREMONT. 9:00PM/ $5/ 21+

VOXHAUL BROADCAST, BLACK APPLES, AND LEMON SUN ON SUNDAY JAN. 23RD AT THE ECHOPLEX, 1154 GLENDALE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:00PM/ $10/ 18+.

The Winter Solstice, the shortest day & longest night of the year, has coincided with a lunar eclipse. That's a big deal in astrology land, even bigger than Jesus maybe, for you, personally. Today you should spend some time staring at the wet sky with a cosmically uninhibited Winter Solstice Mixtape seeping into your ears like so much sweet goopy nectar of the Gods. SIDE A MP3: Winter Solstice Mixtape Side A USR/SBIN aka Dennis Moser Les Bicyclettes Blanches [...]

[Happy Monday. For all you Daft Punk fans, Jason Bentley will be debuting tracks from the "Tron: Legacy" soundtrack at 10 this morning on your friendly neighborhood public radio station ...] Top 2 audio/visual spectacles this evening: ► Roger Waters performs "The Wall" live at Staples Center. ► Sonic experimentalists the Books , joined by Temporary Residence labelmates the Black Heart Procession , play the Music Box. ||| Download: The [...]

• The Books - Beautiful People

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[Birthday wishes go out today to Karen O ...] Top 3 shows/events for your divergent musical interests: ► New Zealand quintet the Naked and Famous (taken from a Tricky lyric and not the Presidents of the United States of America song) seem to have taken MGMT's ball and run with it. Well, the part of MGMT that made the radio darlings, that is. TNAF's debut "Passive Me, Aggressive You" [ stream it here ] is packed with day-glo synth-pop that'll stick [...]

• Dar Williams - If I Wrote You (Acoustic Version Revisited)

Top show that's probably worth the road trip: ☛ Blonde Redhead (with Olof Arnalds opening) plays the Glass House in Pomona. The trio's new album"Penny Sparkle" is more ambient than "233 (the Buzz Bands album of the year in '07) — easy stuff in which to lose yourself, as the five songs they perform in the "4AD Sessions" video reveal. Blonde Redhead is at the Music Box on Tuesday and Wednesday too. ||| Download: "Not Getting There" and see my post back [...]

• Not Getting There » notgettingthere.mp3