Honestly, it didn't start off this way, but pretty early on in handcrafting my latest installment of Scraping Genius Off The Wheel I realized that I was heavy on the Melvins-related content. So I said to myself, "Self, you should go all Osbourne-Crover on these pliable blog-suckling rubes! It'll be like Six Degrees [...]
Too many great options tonight in LA, so here's some picks based on past FS friends.... The biggie tonight has to be at the Hollywood Bowl> NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS , SPIRITUALIZED & CAT POWER . Show starts at 7:30pm. Their quick rise has them jamming the Wiltern, but VAMPIRE WEEKEND has earned it by touring non-stop. Support comes from WHITE WILLIAMS and ABE [...]
by beatmasterspeech (LA) Download: Tweak Bird - "Favorite Sun" [MP3] With a name like Tweak Bird , I was imagining some blistering fast chaotic grind-- the kind a toothless methhead would crank out. Nope, not these guys... picture fuzzedout melodic low end riffs spliced with Geddy Lee singing during the peak of a welcome acid trip (not that I would know or anything...). Pumped out from two brothers who truly believe that keepin' it in the family is best, Tweak [...]
Tweak Bird (Los Angeles, CA) My first experience with Tweak Bird came on a warm December night at The El Rey. Mezzanine Owls and The Valley Arena were playing an event for LA Weekly . At the time Tweak Bird was the only band on the bill I did not recognize. When they started playing they ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED. Ever since I've been a huge fan. Yesterday the bros released [...]
issue 7 poster out now | click to enlarge
issue 7 poster out now | click to enlarge
The Dears (Montreal, Canada) Back when I first started this blog I was absolutely obsessed with The Dears . They are both weird and classic at the same time. Some define their sound as Orchestral Indie Pop. I just think it sounds like a 60s pop station on barbiturates. I even got to meet them up close and personal when Marjorie Fair and Shout Out Louds - both bands I worked with at the time were chosen to support them on tour. The Dears new [...]
Tweak Bird will release their debut EP Reservations September 9th via Volcom Entertainment . The album was produced under the helm of the production team Deaf Nephews ( Melvins ' Dale Crover and Altamont/ Big Business ' Toshi Kasai). You can download the track "Whorses" here .
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 [...]
Photo by Akmal Naim for HateSomethingBeautiful.com Mr Free & The Satellite Freakout with buddies Mad River Glenn have pulled into Los Angeles and will be playing two shows at two very top secret locations (**Cough on Glendale Blvd Under The Sunset Bridge near the Echoplex ***Cough) in Echo Park TONIGHT and TOMORROW NIGHT. The shows will be held INSIDE THEIR SCHOOL BUS. You heard me. Tomorrow night the absolutely amazing Tweak Bird will be playing on the bus. Donations will be asked for [...]
If you'll think back a little bit, you'll remember that a couple of months ago, HSB's photographer Akmal Naim and I went on a school bus for one of the more unusual shows we had ever been on, for Mr. Free And The Satellite Freakout . The band travels around on their modified school bus, playing shows wherever they want to whoever wants to hop onto the bus with them. The good news is, for those of you who saw the pictures and wanted to participate but were a little late [...]
Guest posting tonight is Rob Booher, the only guy I ever met who could pull off zipping his coat up all the way and still look cool . Its Rob who I have to thank for dropping The Lonesome Crowded West on me when I was 18 and thus created the saddest lil' fanboy of the 1990's. He now makes his home in the L.A. and thankfully hasn't kept all of his secrets to himself. .. joey chernila, in his infinite wisdom, asked me to write [...]
LA Record presents: ex members of royal trux... RTX (MP3: Black Bananas) TWEAK BIRD (MP3: White Lips) BLOWUPBLOW (MP3: Lost All Control) Saturday, 3/29 at The Prospector 2400 E. 7th St. Long Beach, CA 90804 (S/E corner of Junipero & 7th St.) $5 // 21+ with I.D. I won't be able to make it to the show but it's guaranteed to be [...]
If you're sore from all the club-hopping you did this week, we feel for you. Holy shiznit... A few highlights included literally one-songing Explosions ("Greet Death") at the Wiltern just so we could get to the Bordello, Spaceland, and the last of Love Grenades' set at The Echo. My Pet Saddle's midnight set at Spaceland was mandatory. If not just so we could hear some new songs we hadn't heard
Here's a little taste of the underground from my hometown. An eclectic assortment of songs, to say the least. If you don't like one, try the next, and so on and so forth! Represent! No Age - Neck Escaper Dengue Fever - Escape From Dragon House Tweak Bird - White Lips Anni Rossi - Machine Abe Vigoda - All Night And Day Bobby Birdman - I Will [...]
Monday, December 3rd Tweak Bird, Crystal Antlers @ Silverlake Lounge 2906 Sunset Blvd. FREE / 10pm / 21+ BAR IS CASH ONLY! I've waxed poetic a bit here and there on IfAN about both Tweak Bird and Crystal Antlers , and in real life I have told pretty much anyone who will listen, how good both these bands are. If the music industry were like "fantasy baseball", both Tweak Bird and Crystal Antlers would the first two bands I would want on my team. This show [...]
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