Buy Yours Now ♫ Spoon - The Fitted Shirt Continue for more pictures and theme music. What happens when two attractive people put on such attractive upper body garments? Well lets just say it rhymes with "sangria-powered freight train." Oh wait, that is exactly what it is. Get on board now because it's leaving the station! ♫ The Lucksmiths - T-Shirt Weather Looking Good is Serious [...]
We give you a couple lovely acoustic videos to go with your Thursday show list: ► Good Times for a Good Cause Dept.: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung team up for a benefit show at the Mint presented by Rock Is a Girl's Best Friend and Buzz Bands LA (who will DJ the proceedings). Proceeds go to PATH (People Assisting the Homeless). ► Robert Francis (that's him doing "Some Things Never Change," top, off his forthcoming album "Strangers in the First Place") opens for [...]
Three bands, one good cause: Wires in the Walls , Telstar and Little Red Lung will play a benefit show for PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Mint. The evening is presented by Rock Is a Girl's Best Friend , along with Buzz Bands LA (who will select tunes before and between the bands). Colette Weintraub of Rock Is a Girl's Best Friend explains the inspiration for the benefit in her blog post here . Tickets are $10, and all proceeds go to PATH . [...]
Wires in the Walls conjure a smile inducing and carefree world with their video for the infectious toe tapping song, YSA off of their newest album 'New Symmetry' that came out in October. Director Brent Lewis was able to visually capture the pure joy and heartfeltness of the melodies and lyrics, by creating a world steeped in innocence and love. Watch YSA video: Based in Los Angeles, Wires in the Walls operates with a very DIY ethos, [...]
Your Sunday variety: ► Robotanists and Shadow Shadow Shade headline a worthy lineup at the Airliner including acts such as Death to Anders, Two Guns, and more to kick off a new weekly series called Traffic Ctrl. ► Captured Tracks synth-pop band Soft Metals [that's their video for "Voices" above"] play Part Time Punks night at the Echo along with Animal Bodies and Feathers . ► Margaret Cho and Grant-Lee Phillips co-emcee A Concert to Benefit School Music Revival at Largo to [...]
That is a real picture (credit to Robert Gendler and Ryan Hannahoe). How. Bloody. Amazing. Is that? It's the Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, spanning over 300 light-years; it's a veritable Supernova factory as well as one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions. The Carina Nebula is constantly churning with atomic life [...]
Thursday's things: ► Can I have a those-were-the-days moment? Check out this video for "It's a Shame About Ray" (which, of course, the record company has not seen fit to make embeddable but is still worth the extra click). It's the title track from the Lemonheads' fifth album, released in one of my favorite musical years, 1992, and Evan Dando and gang visit the El Rey Theatre tonight to perform the album and, we assume, material from the Boston band's other eight albums. Street Chant and the Shining Twins support. ► [...]
Things you can do after your poolside parties: ► The follow-up to Gangi's very good debut "A" has been a long time coming, but Matt Gangi and collaborator Eric Charamosta have some new (unmastered) songs up on Bandcamp , and they play tonight at Part Time Punks at the Echo along with Swahili Blonde and Maus Haus . ► Pedro the Lion's David Bazan visits the Troubadour behind his new album "Strange Negotiations." ► And Telegram (pictured) kicks off a Sunday [...]
This is just one of those "this and that", "bits and bobs", "yada yada", "shorties", whatever, etc. kind of posts. The Boombox Hearts ' downright excellent debut EP Monte Carlo is finally out and available through the usual suspects ( bandcamp und so weiter). + Cover Me (Bruce Springsteen cover) Watch how Martin Aamot of [...]
In the jubilant final verse of Wires in the Walls new single "The Ringer," the L.A. quintet sings en masse "Hang on tight / hang on tight / things are bound to better," punctuating their slice of driving Americana with shouted optimism. It's fitting, considering the band is working on a full-length album, its first after two EPs, and the forthcoming collection of music will be the first singer-guitarist Warren Sroka, bassist Nick Tracz, guitarist Dave Irelan, drummer Bryan King and multi-instrimentalist Dave Sicher have made as a five-piece. Wires in the Walls have honed to the traditional [...]
Last year Mississippi Man busted out of Fullerton with a truckload of sweet melodies, endearing harmonies and a twangy EP, "The Snake Oil Salesman" that earned them immediate comparisons to indie folk/blues merchants Delta Spirit and Cold War Kids. Since, they've had a flirtation with an indie record label, played a mess of shows and slowly worked on a full-length — all the while trying to keep smiles planted on their faces. "The cool thing is, we've taken a lot of time," says David Knight, who with Luke Messimer is one of two singer-guitarist-lyricists in the [...]
[Cheers to Amusement Parks on Fire's Michael Feerick on his birthday.] Top 3 places I'd considering going were I not going to thoroughly enjoy Admiral Radley and the Happy Hollows at the free Also I Like to Rock show at the Hammer Museum (consider that an invitation to join me; we can karaoke the mock-Schwarzenegger chorus of "I Heart California" together): ☛ Au Revoir Simone holds forth at the Echoplex. ☛ Wires in the [...]
Wake Up Lucid's no-frills blues feels like a breath of fresh air amid all today's tricked-out psychedelia and hybridized noise. The project of cousins Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca, the trio's debut EP "Look Alive People," recorded to 2-inch tape at the Village in West L.A. a year ago, crackles with bite-sized riffs and taut rhythms. Occasionally you'll get a whiff of the Dead Weather or Wolfmother, and darned if singer-guitarist Ryan Baca's wail doesn't sound like "Been Caught Stealing"-era Perry Farrell on "Two Cents," but mostly "Look Alive" affirms the muscle of a good old-fashioned power trio. And [...]
I should have written this about four weeks ago. I'll offer my usual apologies briefly: I was just hired for another research gig; I took a particularly unforgiving LSAT yesterday; my thesis... needs to be written; I just relocated with all of my floatsam for the summer; and my birthday was last week. (Was that [...]
[Hello, hello ... Anybody out there on a Monday holiday? No? Yes?] Add the Young Veins to the latest batch of groups diving into the Swell Sounds of the Sixties. Or Something Similar. The L.A.-based quintet, spearheaded by ex-Panic at the Disco dudes Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, conjoin a little British Invasion with a little West Coast sunshine for a sound that's the perfect fashion accessory for summer. (And, yes, their debut album "Take a Vacation!," out June 8, might last as long as that $8 pair [...]
*Dr. Dog-Stranger ( mp3 vía Spinner) ( web ) *Wires In The Walls-Twin Jet Engines ( mp3 ) ( web ) *The Ruby Suns-Closet Astrologer ( mp3 ) ( web ) *CocoRosie-Lemonade ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Dazzle Ships-Least Resistence ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Happy Birthday-Subliminal Message ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Hot Chip-I Feel Bonnie' feat. Bonnie Billy ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Penguin Prison-The Worse It Gets (The Dirty Disco Remix) ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Pearly Gate Music-Big Escape ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Suckers-Black Sheep ( mp3 ) [...]
L.A. quartet Wires in the Walls plant their flag on the same solitary stretch of Americana as bands such as Okkervil River and Magnolia Electric Co., coloring their winsome tunes with horns, accordion and euphonium. Frontman's Warren Sroka's fragile vocals remind me of a less clarion David LaBrel (whose tenor makes Olin and the Moon so remarkable). Sroka and bandmates Nick Tracz, Bryan King and David Irelan on April 2 release their second EP, "Call Signs." A downright pretty sample: ||| Download: "Twin Jet Engines" ||| [...]
...lots of other things happened! I finally bought myself a ticket for the Get Well Soon concert at Loppen on March 23. + If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting The new album by The National was announced. To be released May 11 and will be named High Violet . Frank says it's awesome ! I'm almost prepared to wager [...]
Another batch of songs found in the mailbox. Still 1,917 mails left in the inbox. + Air Waves - Sweetness Real energetic indie pop (though the promo mail calls it " a medley of folk, rock, pop, and country " - did they mail out the wrong promo track?). And catchy too! + Wakey!Wakey! - Twenty Two + Andrew Watt and The Glory Glory - One Day [...]
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