Download: The Burger Basher! Mixtape (from the Burger interview here!) Our old pals at Burger have further conglomerized the powerful Burger brand and opened a brand new real-deal record store to go with their real-deal record label! If you're in the cholesterol-coated heart of Orange County, be sure to stop by to see Audacity and thee Makeout [...]
Download: The Burger Basher! Mixtape (from the Burger interview here!) Our old pals at Burger have further conglomerized the powerful Burger brand and opened a brand new real-deal record store to go with their real-deal record label! If you're in the cholesterol-coated heart of Orange County, be sure to stop by to see Audacity and thee Makeout [...]
[Happy birthday, Juliana Hatfield, and thanks for songs.] July goes out with a bang this week, starting with some enticing shows tonight: Jarvis Cocker headlines the Wiltern behind his recent release "Further Complications," an album that, owing to the strength of its storytelling, keeps on giving. [Cocker is giving away a remix of "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)" here .] ... I also haven't been able to stay away from "Alone," the new album from New York-based Australian psych-rockers the Morning After Girls [...]
Straight and Frankenstein tall stood Kim Fowley in the low-roofed Redwood Lounge last weekend. Presiding over another installment of "Hollywood Sexual Underground", the legendary songwriter-producer-impresario was haranguing a roomful of sweating freaks and lovelies when I clambered in off the street on another boiling hot Friday night. "Are there any lesbians or drunks in the house tonight?" he intoned from somewhere near the ceiling, glowering about the narrow room like a rock 'n' roll Vincent Price.
Hunx is Seff (of Gravy Train!!! and trash-glam-punk-pop going all the way back to an Appleby's in Tucson, Arizona) and Hunx and His Punx are Seff leading wide-eyed rocker babies through songs equal parts dirty Undertones and dirty underwear. They finish a wild visit to L.A. with an appearance at tonight's vital Burger Basher! next door to the Smell. This interview by Daniel Clodfelter.
burger co-owner lee rickerd (r) and nobunny Download: The Burger Basher! Mixtape Hunx & His Punx "You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll" Harlem "South of France" White Night "Settle This" Nobunny "Monster Kiss" Thee Makeout Party! "Kids" Hunx & His Punx "I Won't Get Under You" Devon Williams "Forthcoming" Thee Makeout Party! "Change" Harlem "Caroline" Nobunny "Apple Tree" Anaheim's Burger Records picks up bands that could have [...]
My friend Nick from Beach Patrol was recently telling me about a blog NOBUNNY posted on his Myspace page. The entry was the first ever NOBUNNIES and acknowledged several of the things the furry one found to be righteous. I was completely unfamiliar with the entry and checked it out when I got home from the Record Store Day festivities. The winner of the "Best Band Previously Unheard" category was a band from Anaheim called Thee Makeout Party! [...]
Download: Greater California "It's Great" (shea M gauer remix) (from Trust Us on Fidotrust) Download: Devon Williams "A Truce" (from "Elevator" 45 on L.A. RECORD ) Download: Thee Makeout Party "Slack" [...]
emily rose Download: Devon Williams "A Truce" (from "A Truce" 45 on L.A. RECORD ) Great press for Devon to advance my show at the Prospector tomorrow. ( THAT'S DEVON WILLIAMS AT THE PROSPECTOR IN LONG BEACH TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! CLICK HERE FOR MUSIC AND REASONS TO GO!!!! ) Full fun below. Ellen was [...]
emily rose Download: Devon Williams "A Truce" (from "A Truce" 45 on L.A. RECORD) Devon Williams is playing a show with us on Sat., Oct. 25, at the Prospector in Long Beach with fellow cover alums thee Makeout Party and Greater California. He did an interview for the Long Beach paper that you can read here: What drives [...]
The annual Budget Rock Showcase takes over the The Stork Club in Oakland this weekend for "the West Coast's longest running festival for trashy, out of tune (formerly known as 'garage') wacked out music otherwise ignored by the Indie Rock Establishment." With over thirty bands playing over four nights, there's a lot to check out, including some quality local bands like Sir Lord Von Raven (a newish psych rock band featuring former members of The Time Flys and The Gris Gris), The [...]
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Best Band Name of Thee week. Also they just played with Greg Ashley at Ghost Town Gallery in Oakland, where Greg is recording and mixing the Impediments debut. So that alone deserves some make out love. Power pop from Anaheim California made the trek up the West Coast to support their new release. That's true rock and roll. Besides look at dude's smile down there, and his pot smoking celly to the left. Nice one. Lay off the acid dudes. You guys will do fine without it. When I see a band being referenced with Flamin' [...]
Diamond Days Festival Takes Over Oakland This Week Sorry LA Readers but occasionally I have to take a moment from my regular LA postings to give props to the fantastic music scenes going on up north in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento. This weekend Heeb Magazine will be presenting the Diamond Days Festival . The annual event will take place July 17-20th at Mama Buzz Cafe and Ghost Town Gallery in Oakland, CA and features some of the best underground music perk elating on the west [...]
From their debut full-length Play Pretend, from Disneyland-adjacent power pop band under the influence of the Archies, Raspberries, Flamin' Groovies, and Chris Bell. Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes Links theemakeoutparty.com Myspace Spread It Around: [...]
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