Kaskade : Official | Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud | Tickets For all of our Los Angeles / Orange County / Long Beach readers|followers|supporters don't be alarmed. Kaskade has stated that he's going to announce the LA date AFTER he performs at Coachella. Yes, you're going to have to wait. Remember patience is a virtue. My guess is that it's either going to be on Fri May 25th since a Las Vegas date is right after OR it'll be on June 27th right after his [...]
![[Ones To Watch] – Introducing – Tiger Waves](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4057593_lg.jpg)
Tweet Now more than ever before there are so many possibilities for those with a shared artistic vision to meet and join creative forces. Such a case can be seen in the group Tiger Waves , based in Austin, Texas, and specializing in their own unique blend of cosmic surf rock. Originally formed by James Marshall in Austin, and Reid Comstock in Chicago, the duo collaborated through the Internet, sharing their combined efforts via a vast sea of CD-Rs, drop boxes, [...]
Call in the cash cow, The Presidents of The United States of America are back! In a astute move, the band will perform their self-titled 1995 debut album in full (at just 38 minutes we hope there's an encore). Featuring the songs 'Peaches'. 'Lump', 'Dune Buggy' and 'Back Porch', the night is sure to be a right nostalgia-fest. Ticket Info Tickets on sale Thursday 10th November priced €25 (including booking fee) from http://www.ticketmaster.ie & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. 0818 719 300 - Republic of Ireland customers 0844 277 4455 - [...]
![[Introducing] – Architecture](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3825154_lg.jpg)
Tweet Architecture , a three - piece band based in Chicago, specialize in crafting an organic-electronic sound that merges '60s girl-group stylings with an ambient mixture of dream pop. Their self-released debut album, "When We Were Young" (April 9th), is sure to make fans of Au Revoir Simone and Slumber Party rejoice! Originally a two-piece made up of Melissa Harris (vox/multivox/Nord) and Rebecca Scott (vox/guitar/glockenspiel) during the recording, Erin Dorr has since joined the band, contributing vox, [...]
Husker du scenen i Disney's tegnefilmsklasikker Dumbo, hvor Dumbo hallucinerer og ser dansende, syngende og lyserøde elefanter? Dumbo Gets Mad har taget navn fra dette syretrip, og det høres tydeligt på pladen Elephants At The Door , der rummer adskillige skæve indslag. Dumbo Gets Mad er én fyr fra Italien, hvis man ser bort fra, at hans kæreste synger på nogle af numrene. Inspirationskilderne tæller Bibio, Gonjasufi, Flying Lotus, The Radio Dept, The United States of America, Ash Ra Tempel og CaptainBeefheart. Pladen er fuld af gode vibes på gammeldags manér. Der er brugt [...]
Husker du scenen i Disney's tegnefilmsklasikker Dumbo, hvor Dumbo hallucinerer og ser dansende, syngende og lyserøde elefanter? Dumbo Gets Mad har taget navn fra dette syretrip, og det høres tydeligt på pladen Elephants At The Door , der rummer adskillige skæve indslag. Dumbo Gets Mad er én fyr fra Italien, hvis man ser bort fra, at hans kæreste synger på nogle af numrene. Inspirationskilderne tæller Bibio, Gonjasufi, Flying Lotus, The Radio Dept, The United States of America, Ash Ra Tempel og CaptainBeefheart. Pladen er fuld af gode vibes på gammeldags manér. Der er brugt [...]
When's the last time you read the Constitution of the United States of America? When was the Constitution written? When was the most recent amendment ratified? If you can't answer these questions - you are unfortunately a sheep who is just taking everyone's word for it that you are not being screwed over. The Constitution was written in 1787 or 224 years ago. Has anything in life changed in 224 years? If you answered yes, then how come the USA still uses this archaic document that doesn't take into account so many changes in [...]
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Did you know that George Washington was unable to have biological children because of a contraction of small pox in his youth? Or that Andrew Jackson once killed a man for insulting his wife? Do you really know absolutely anything about our 13th president Millard Fillmore? Well Matt Beat, a.k.a. Electric Needle Room , knows a lot. And he wants to tell you a little something about each of our first 15 presidents through 3-5 minute bedroom pop infused songs on The Presidents of the United States of America (Volume [...]
The United States of America album is the product of Joseph Byrd, former FLUXUS member, artist and UCLA instructor who managed to combine experimental art and early synthesizer technology with psychedelic rock in creating this brilliant record. Employing percussion instruments, electric violin and acoustic strings, electric bass, various keyboards, homemade oscillators and ring modulators, and [...]
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Wolfgang Gartner : Official | Facebook | Twitter There's a lot one can say about Wolfgang Gartner's music video for the track Illmerica. You can take the funny comedic route and point out how many deliberate inaccuracies were placed like the S.W.A.T. guard watching over Pocahontas or the sign in the forest that read "Do Not Place Unsolicited Advertising Materials On This Property." There are also the slap in the face depictions that make you think about the deeper historical implications like the pilgrims giving [...]
It's impossible to believe that Broadcast's Trish Keenan is no longer with us. Shockingly, she passed away on Friday after a two-week battle with pneumonia. From the moment I heard Broadcast's first EP, The Book Lovers , I was hooked on their fractal pop, even if my initial impression of them was "Stereolab-lite." (How wrong I was.) The group gained strength with each release, creating music that was at once brazenly experimental and multidimensional, containing worlds upon worlds of influences in an evocative framework of puzzlebox lyrics and kitchen-sink psychedelia. Cinematic and sweeping, [...]
ah it's been a quiet old week musically. struggling with the post-paris comedown and the giant sprawl of what is now not really a review of the zombie zombie gig last week in mono. what's been holding my interest is bagels, shade the changing man graphic novels (more on that soon) and laser-pen-tormenting my cat. i'll squeeze this bugger in though. the united states of america. not the constitutional federal republic seemingly to blame for everything wrong with this world we live in, but those sixites psych rock [...]
As followers of our Twitter are more than aware, Kenny Bloggins has been straight fiendin' the past few weeks. It's probably been annoying as all hell, and I suppose I'm somewhat sorry. But not really - the final season of LOST begins tonight, and we are throwin' down. In the traditional way this blog celebrates all the stupid shit going on in my life, it seemed necessary to throw a Super Swingin' Mix in your vicinity. And hey, it also can serve as sort of a peace offering for my general numberskullery and insolence. So... all the songs below relate [...]
The historical importance of this unassuming album can't be overstated. It was the first rock sampler album I ever saw or heard, and almost certainly the first such ever released here in the UK. It was in fact the first time I saw the actual term "rock" used to describe the music at all; previously the successive labels "underground" and "progressive" had been coined to cover the diverging (from "pop") stream of album-based, art-for-art's-sake music that had started with Dylan and Hendrix. It was the new music's first budget release; at a time when the standard price of an album [...]
The United States of America - Love Song For The Dead Che
In the late 1960s Columbia Records tried to be really hip because, after all, they had nothing to lose. This is the oldest recording label - founded in 1888 to sell Thomas Edison's new-fangled recording machines - and in the Sixties this label was really suffering from a "credibility gap." With one huge exception: Columbia (by this time they were owned by CBS) stumbled onto the burgeoning folk craze in the early 1960s and signed Bob Dylan. Dylan went on to change popular music virtually singlehandedly (the Beatles helped a little) but even so Columbia had very few [...]
On this holiday celebrating a rather goofy nation, it seemed poignant to post about one of my all-time favorite artists, also somewhat goofy, who happened to adopt a most festive and patriotic namesake - The United States of America . I'm still blown away every time I consider that this album, their one and only eponymous record, was recorded in 1967. The United States of America was so far ahead of its time that it sounds futuristic even today. "The American Metaphysical Circus" provides a starting point for the marriage of psych pop with [...]
Gangi will be playing their final May residency at Spaceland tonight so we are lifting this interview out of our recent archives. The vinyl version of their album A is almost out and they are already working on the follow-up Gun Show , with a title track that sounds like T. Rex and Funkadelic together in three minutes. They speak here months before when issues of toxic mold were much more on their minds. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
Nooooooooooo!!!!! An intense ice storm swept over Louisville this week. Something like a quarter million people around Louisville are still without power. Things are apocalyptic. And my car has a branch on it. It makes you think. I can remember, lucidly, what he was like before he had a huge fucking branch on him. He's a 1996 Toyota Camry. He's got four doors that open, as well as close. The "y" is missing on the rear end, so when you ghost ride up from behind, my automobile [...]
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