Winter Flowers, Golden Animals Date/Time: Tue., August 12 The Bordello 901 E. First St. L.A. CA 90012 (213) 687-3766 Formerly Little Pedro's, this new incarnation returns to the room's... More» Incredible Strings and Songs By Michael Simmons Winter Flowers are Los Angeles' incredible string sextet of the 21st century. [...]

Marrie Bot - Toos [84] and Arie [85] (2001) Fill your dowry with candy and sweets and statistics this spring. Stimulating the appetite can make a person more with impulsive in decision making. Married adults are less likely than other adults to be in poor or fair health , and are less likely to suffer from health conditions such as headaches and serious psychological distress. Then top of the basket with Zanax and some dancing, lots of dancing. And all the drawings [...]
Good week. Let's keep it going... Great psych-rock lineup at Spaceland tonight with The Quarter After, Rocking Horse People, Stevenson Ranch Davidians, and The Pink Snowflakes (visiting from our friendly neighbor to the north, Portland, OR). War Tapes headlines Underground at the Echo. Xu Xu Fang, Winter Flowers, and Exitmusic at The Bordello. Alex and Sam at El Cid. And our old friend n.lannon
A slight change in programming: I'm pushing back writing and posting my favorite albums list til the quiet period between Christmas and New Year's when I'll have time and energy to give these records their due. (And when I'm out of the office for almost two weeks, woo!). Basically, the list will go up exactly one hour after you've stopped caring about such things. So be it. Instead: a mop-up post of good EPs and reissues and music I loved (sometimes obsessively) in 2007 that wasn't released in 2007. And other bits n' bobs. I will [...]

Image: Marc Quinn End of the War - Winter Flowers Winter Flowers are from Los Angeles, where it's no miracle for flowers to bloom in winter. Rain comes hard and gray the first months of the calendar year, days upon days upon weeks of it, undermining the soft hills until they're rivers or mud, until sometimes they slide into the ocean, taking arrogant constructions of wood and stone and brick with them. But flowers bloom throughout [...]
I knew something had changed inside when I found I had fallen in love with this song. It's so patently not-me. Anyway, it reminds of elderly Tolkien cartoons and grainy footage of snow drifts from long ago, not to mention that "patient virtues" have never been mine, either. Download: Winter Flowers - "Misty Morning Land"Buy the [...]
Real quick-like... It would be foolish not to be at Largo tonight. Gillian & David is one thing, but wait until you see their supporting cast. Like whoa... For those not wanting to stand in long lines that stretch down to Damiano's, the alternatives tonight would be Kristin Hersh at El Cid or Mika Miko at The Smell... The Section Quartet perform Radiohead's OK Computer at The Echo on 10/15. The
FEATURED ARTIST: WINTER FLOWERS official site myspace [MP3] Winter Flowers - Hey Ho [MP3] Winter Flowers - Too Young To Marry [MP3] Winter Flowers - Country Fair I'm fully convinved that 5 piece folk act Winter Flowers transported themselves to modern day Echo Park from 1963 San Francisco in a [...]