Best Unofficial Day Show : Aquarium Drunkard's CMJ Showcase Where : Fontana's When : 12pm - 5pm Cost : FREE Lineup : 12:00pm - Blair , 12:45pm - The Love Language , 1:30pm - Roadside Graves , 2:15pm - Phantogram , 3:00pm - Joshua James , 3:45pm - Happy Hollows , 4:15pm - [...]
22 October, 2009 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm Who: Local Natives , Joshua James, Roadside Graves, Blair, The Happy Hollows Where: Fontana's Show Info: 21+, 12:00pm, $TBD Read: Band of the Week: Local Natives
Official Website MySpace Facebook Twitter One of the last, big music festivals of the year, CMJ Music Marathon is back for it's 29th year. Taking place in over 75 venues all around New York City. This all goes down a week from now, October 20-24. Much like SXSW and all the other big industry music festivals, you got your [...]
No other way of introducing this week's edition of our Friday Mixtape then to tell you we put together something particularly awesome for you guys. After all, names like Yorke, Snoop, Vampire Weekend, and Phoneix are included. So, enjoy! NEW Singles: "Ultra Violence and Beethoven" by Baby Monster "Gloomy Monday Morning" by The Black Hollies "The Laurels of Erotomania" by Cold Cave "Zombie" by Fela Kuti [...]
The much-anticipated and highly acclaimed debut album by Los Angeles trio The Happy Hollows has officially hit the streets. The album, "Spells" is a culmination of their work with producer and former Mighty Lemon Drops guitarist David Newton (The Little Ones, The Blood Arm), who also produced the group's 2008 EP "Imaginary." In support of the album, The Happy Hollows will be performing a string of East Coast dates surrounding their CMJ New Music Marathon showcases. The band will then headline a residency at Spaceland in Los Angeles throughout November. The young group's infectious and [...]
High Wire , from The Happy Hollows new album, Spells
The Happy Hollows' catchy yet dissonant sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90's college rock, garage punk, art rock, and 80's pop. The band combines innovative song structures, surreal lyrics, and fiercely adept instrumentation to recreate reality into a jagged panorama of vibrant, kaleidoscopic collage. Listening to their music, one cannot help but see visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious. Having born and bred their band in various corners of the L.A. music scene since forming [...]
[A batch of local stuff you should be paying attention to ...] The latest in the (almost) monthly songwriting series from Hello Dragon might be its best yet. "1073 paints a sad little picture from downtown L.A. that will bring a smile to the face of anybody who's surveyed the scene at Bar 107 on any given night. Principals Julie Chadwick and Chris Zerby got an assist on this song from Jeremy Wilkins (programming) and Mike Eisenstein (mixing). ||| Download: [...]
ZACH THAT: The Subjects – "Winter Vacation" Art Brut – "Weird Science" Of Montreal – "Brush Brush Brush" Loney Dear – "Airport Surroundings" Richard Youngs – "Under Stellar Stream" The Happy Hollows – "Highwire" Imaad Wasif – "Priestess" Winter Gloves – "Invisible" (Ease V Remix) Holopaw – "The [...]
Can there be too much of a good thing? The Eagle Rock Music Festival — which, if you have any affection for good local music at all, qualifies — is liable to have you sprinting up and down Colorado Boulevard on Saturday. By my count, there are about 70 bands performing on 15 or so stages — and there are other cool happenings, such as Pehrspace's "Pehriscope" (at Swork coffeehouse) — one-time collaborations by artists such as the Monolators, Meredith Meyer and Timonium incorporating projections, films, live soundtracking and more. The festival is neighborhood-y is the best way [...]
[Wishing happy 40th birthday to Damon Gough, who's Badly Drawn Boy to most folks, and zooming into the weekend. I have keep this real brief this morning ...] Today: If you don't win the lotto and get into the Thom Yorke "rehearsal" at the Echoplex, there are a couple of other shows that have my heart atwitter: The Postmarks and Brookville at Spaceland, and World Party and Parade of Lights at the El Rey. ... There's also the release [...]
El día 6 de octubre sale a la venta Spells , álbum de debut del grupo The Happy Hollows, un disco de 14 canciones noise-pop de sonido vibrante y directo, que refleja unas influencias muy variadas, desde el garage punk de los 90 hasta el pop de los 80. Anteriormente a este trabajo, el grupo había publicado un Ep llamado Imaginary , con el que consiguieron bastante popularidad y críticas positivas por parte de medios tan importantes como Los Angeles Times o la BBC quien los consideraba como una de las bandas a seguir [...]
The 2009 Lobster Festival at the Port of Los Angeles offered a weekend of fun and frolic in a county-fair atmosphere, with a handful of L.A. indie-rock bands making the trek to San Pedro to partake (as did the Happy Hollows' Sarah Negahdari, top photo) and play (with Gram Rabbit , above, turning in a particularly winning set). Photographer Jeff Koga caught performances from those two bands, plus Dios , the Henry Clay People and Rocket , and sent along this gallery: [...]
photography by benjamin hoste Little Radio Summer Camp with The Henry Clay People, The Happy Hollows, and The Monolators on September 6, 2009 in downtown Los Angeles.
The sum-total of knowledgeable Boston-based music writers increased by at least one earlier this year when Mr. Joe Fielder's new day job had him packing up his life in L.A. and relocating here to our little Hub. I'd had the music blog he wrote for, Radio Free Silver Lake, in my RSS reader long before he dropped me a note saying he was heading out this way, and having read many of his posts,
Negahdari embodied a homecoming queen—her chest resplendent with glitter. She'd choke up on the mic thanking the audience with I love YOU ALL's. She flailed and screeched while Charlie Mahoney's fingers wove spider webs around his bass strings. Before the rhythm and before the melody came the sound's impact. Like a bully's push it was. The Happy Hollows' first crunch made my skin shake. The songs loudly proceeded, carving a funnel of love and slipped along its smooth slope to fun house heaven.
We locals find it funny to call Spells the debut of Happy Hollows . The band has been rocking Los Angeles for a couple years now, so this is hardly an introduction. Instead, Spells serves up a whopping mouthful. Sarah Negahdari rips her guitar open like a bag of candy, smothering herself in gooey sticky delirium. She might be the wild woman, but Charles Mahoney (bass) and Chris Hernandez (drums) absolutely get it.
[Busy weekend ahead? You bet. Happy birthday to Nina Persson on Sunday — and happy birthday to Paul Waclawsky of the Boxing Lesson (who play Spaceland tonight) — and here goes ...] Today: It's the Happy Hollows' release party for "Spells" at Spaceland, and their fine support includes the Pity Party , the Boxing Lesson and the Health Club . ... Whispertown 2000 , with the Belle Brigade , headlines the Echo. ... And Amy Kuney opens for Blueskyreality at [...]
The Happy Hollows celebrate the release of their debut record Spells (due October 6th) on Friday. Ms. Negahdari invited us to help sponsor the show, but since we had no idea what sponsoring a show meant, we obviously mistook the request as her coy way of flirting with us. Much to our dismay she was not flirting with us and she actually did mean she wanted us to help promote the show. After wiping
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