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En Galaxy 94.7 fm ® tenemos la fórmula para acercarte a tu receptor de radio y recibir la mejor música de la galaxia ... desde las 8:20 pm comienza nuestra programación de viernes por la noche , una nueva edición del Friday Night con el más reciente playlist de Silent Roy — el número 142 en la historia de este proyecto... Zael estará en control... desde Los Mochis , la ciudad con los vientos olor [...]
Sunday was the first real day of Coachella-esque weather (Sun!!! And heat!), and so it was fitting to start the day in the audience of Lissie , the tannest white chick I have seen outside of Hollywood. She's a singer songwriter whose music is a little hard to engage with, not because it's dissonant or angry, but because it's deceptively accessible. You might even call it boring , until you set a spell and really listen to the no-holds-barred, truly introspective lyrics coming out of her. Imagine if, say, Taylor Dane picked up an acoustic guitar and started [...]
I spent 3 days in the desert heat lugging around camera gear to bring you back some shots from Coachella 2012. Do you know how hard it is to party with a backpack full of expensive photography equipment? It's practically impossible. While I go see a chiropractor, you can check out the photos in our Facebook album. Read about my 3 days in desert here: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Who: The Growlers at the Outdoor Theatre In 3 or Fewer Words: Turn it up. Forgettable Because: The Growlers don't play as much as they simply churn, and they seem to take an odd delight in being inscrutable. Their fans — and, this being a SoCal gig, there were plenty in the Sunday sunshine — love them, but maybe it's an inside joke. Their surf pop-meets-psychedelia has its moments (opener "Tijuana," with its mariachi trumpter, and the mid-set "Gay Thoughts" were highlights); over 45 minutes, though, they get rather one-note. Will [...]
Coachella raised the dead on Sunday night. On the final day of Weekend 1 of 20122s doubleheader in the desert, a mind-blowing headlining set from Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg — with a host of guests including Eminem — featured a cameo from Tupac Shakur, the seminal rapper who was killed in 1996. His appearance came via a holographic image that alternately thrilled and freaked out a massive crowd high on historic hip-hop, and its accompanying aromas. The careers of two long-silent rock bands may have been resurrected on Sunday, too — At the Drive-In's [...]
[The Buzz Bands LA crew will be in Indio for the first weekend of the doubleheader in the desert, scribbling notes and taking photographs between predictable attacks of nostalgia, next-big-thing giddiness and dehydration. Coachella 2012 offers a mind-boggling array of current and past favorites to suit just about any palette — no whining about the lineup or debating reward-vs.-cost here. Here are 6 acts we won't miss, and a bunch more we recommend:] Reunions, Returns and Resurgences [...]
If you're a bleary-eyed space cadet with fatigue in your eyes and a scribbled-out schedule of bands in his pocket, the Spider House has a good chance of utterly confusing you. On this particular afternoon, there was a Psych Fest going concurrently with another fest, and some bands on some stages were in one festival and some in the other, but both were kind of good, so wherever you turned, you'd stumble into a groovy band playing kick-ass hard psych boogie. The Spider House coffee house is a sprawling, ramshackle place, with half-rusted wrought-iron bathtubs and other junk yard rescues [...]
ALABAMA SHAKES Hometown: Athens, Alabama Label: ATO Records Show: Stubbs (801 Red River Street) - Wednesday, March 14th @ 11:15pm Alabama Shakes - I Found You ALICE RUSSELL AND QUANTIC Hometown: Cali, Colombia Label: Tru Thoughts Show: Barbarella Patio (611 Red River Street) - Friday, March 16th @ 1:00am The Quantic Soul Orchestra & Alice Russell - Pushin' On (feat. Alice Russell) [...]
Milton Nascimento - "Cravo e Canela" . With his spice shop, Luis thought that he would get all the girls. Pots of nutmeg, jars of cinnamon peel: all this latent eroticism, he thought, all this sublimated sex. Instead, the spice shop was mostly hard work. It was mostly figuring out the cash-register. This was not some garden of earthly delights; it was a business of shavings, powders, pods, seeds, euros per gram. At first Luis was disappointed, returning home at the end of the day, but then his wife turned him around. [ buy ] [...]
The Growlers Appearing at Replay Lounge (Lawrence, KS) on Monday, March 26, 2012
There just isn't enough time in my days right now. Here's the new formula around here while I am finishing up my training at the restaurant...instead of trying to do a small posting here and there, my new goal will be to put out a playlist every week. Hopefully that works for you over the next few months until life settles down a bit. I was pretty excited about some of the live shows that have been announced in Vancouver over the next while. Here are some songs from must-see shows coming to town. Enjoy. [...]
On December 30th, I got to see the Growlers for the first time since they came to England and made my life worth continuing on - and my god, was it amazing. Despite the fact that their fanbase is way too hardcore in LA for my old, rickety bones - it was one of the best shows I've seen all year. In fact, they played a song ( Sunset Girl ) that is not only maybe my favorite of all time but had been forgotten by the band, [...]
One special show: ► Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" remains one of my favorite albums of all time — along with the Posies' "Frosting on the Beater," it was the best power-pop album of its era, and deservedly earns mentions on any shortlist of the top power-pop albums ever made. Sweet's sweet melodies and bittersweet lyrics were juxtaposed on the album with gnarly guitar solos from the late Robert Quine (that's Quine, who played with Richard Hell, Lou Reed and Lloyd Cole, among others, on "Girlfriend's" title track) and Television's Richard Lloyd. Now, 20 years after [...]
Thursday things: ► Part 1 of FMLY Fest — two days of music and communing thrown by the L.A. branch of the eco-conscious collective — goes off at Catnap (1726 N. Spring St. in Chinatown). We posted on the preview mixtape earlier this month . And there's a very good lineup today, featuring Gangi, Gothic Tropic, Steffaloo (pictured), Geoff Geis, Poweraxe, Professor Calculus, FIDLAR, Kid Infinity and more. What is FMLY? LA Weekly gives you an idea . [Set times after the jump.] ► Fishbone and [...]
Wednesday's top picks: ► Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bob Seger visits Staples Center for his first L.A. show in more than four years. Good piece on him in Sunday's Times . ► The Growlers roar into the Echo for a sold-out show. ► East L.A. eight-piece Upground , whose sound fuses rock, reggae, ska and cumbia, cuts loose at the Bootleg Theater, along with two Mexican-born songstresses, Fernanda Ulibarri and LiLo. Also: [...]
A short but diverse schedule as we approach the holiday: ► Japan's magnificent metallurgists Dir En Grey return to SoCal behind their new release "Dum Spiro Spero." They bring their unique, pummeling rock the to the House of Blues. ► Lo-fi indie rockers the Growlers play the Observatory (fka the Galaxy Theatre) in Santa Ana, with Tomorrow's Tulips supporting. ► Old Californio and the Whiskey Saints team for a night of roots rock at the Satellite. Also: [...]
Nu Rave Brain Wave Top 10 Albums, Top 5 EPs, and Top 5 73s of 2011: Top 5 7″ of 2011: 05 Bitch Prefect – 7″ ( RIP Society Records ) This is really breezy and effortless pop songs done in the best kind of way from Aussie upstarts Bitch Prefect . 04 [...]
Something Someone Jr. by The Growlers Astral Plane by Thee Ludds The team over at Palmist Records has compiled quite a few splendid split releases, and for their current one they wonderfully joined up Leicester's Thee Ludds with The Growlers from L.A. for a split 12" released last month. The record puts together 11 tracks from the two bands highlighting the jangly, goth surf rock from The Growlers and the sludgy, stomping psychedelic rock of Thee Ludds . [...]
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