Download: Arabian Prince "Strange Life" (from Innovative Life out now on Stones Throw) Download: Johnson and Jonson "Up All Night" (from Johnson and Jonson out now on Tres) More head-spraining archival work from the master moles at Cinefamily . They've been doing a [...]
Download: Karen Dalton 'Every Time I Think Of Freedom' (from Cotton-Eyed Joe out now on Delmore) Karen Dalton is Nick Cave and Devendra Banhart's favorite but hardly anyone came calling for her until years after she died— "the great lost voice of the New York's Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s," said the Guardian , who were one of many to deliver the reverent reviews she deserved when a big burst of reissues [...]
Download: The Ravens "I'm A Hog For You, Baby" Your man Miles on the lipstick, the pig and the sandwich mating same . But his pick on Porky's is better advice for locals. Their BBQ puts me to sleep. That's about the most I ever wanted from a meal. Music by the Kinks before they were the Kinks.
Download: The Monolators "Don't Dance" Congrats to Monolators (and RockInsider Ashley ) for this heartening display of ambition/attrition . They will play Detour on Oct. 4, which is the same day—but just minutes away—from the Eagle Rock Music Fest . And the day before the Schooled In Song fest in Long Beach . (No Monolators there, but good bands you will hear and obey.) Set up your Monday sick-day now!
Download: Sonadora 'Birds And Bees' Download: dios malos 'Dumb After All' Download: Peach Fuzz 'Fille Des Mers Du Sud' (from Catch Your Snap on Teenacide) Another unimpeachable line-up at the [...]
Download: T. Rex "The Groover" Download: The Outsiders "Freeway" Download: Doug Sahm "Groover's Paradise" Download: The Pagans "Street Where Nobody Lives" [...]
MP3s from last week below. Download: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Bring It On' (from Nocturama on Anti) Download: Scotty Coats 'Beautiful Ones' Download: NON STOP 'Hydration Explosion' [...]
Download: EPMD "You're A Customer" Download: Archie Shepp "Money Blues" UPDATE: Rare snaps of Charlie himself. Your man Charlie is up at the Beat Swap Meet right now repping Ubiquity (come for the Pharoahs , leave with the Blank Blue EP ) and [...]
lauren everett Download: Jail Weddings 'Somebody Lonely' (from 'Somebody Lonely' 45 on Revenge/Red Wine) Said me in simpler times: Full disclosure is that I respect Gabe Hart (Starvations/Fortune's Flesh) a lot and here is the band he was born for. Nine-piece revue with himself and two wild ladies up front—Katya the incandescent blonde and Tina the bombshell brunette—and a band that is Phil [...]
Download: George Jones 'Frozen Heart' Download: The Choir 'It's Cold Outside' Download: The Grabs 'Cold Enough To Snow' Download: Syd Barrett 'She Took A Long Cold Look At Me' [...]
Download: Author and Punisher '40 To 12 Actually right now, if everything is on schedule. During the last five years, experimental media collective FLOOD has grown Long Beach's SoundWalk from a promising curiosity to an internationally reputable sound-art event—as far as I know, there is nothing else in the world that allows sound artists to commandeer an entire living urban neighborhood and pack it out with surprise installations—and in another five years I wouldn't be surprised to run into [...]
Download: Spiritualized 'Soul On Fire' (from Songs In A&E on Universal) Tons of hustlers trying to push in (and Crystal Antlers opposite downstairs) but thanks to Liz we could bulldoze in. All the classics (like a destructive 'Come Together') presented on a field of white light except for a hurting lack of '2.352 (though they did do the Nashville version of 'Walking With Jesus'; plenty of singalong for the sound of love) with true [...]
ques Download: GZA 'Paper Plate' (from Pro Tools out now on Baby Grande) Long talk with GZA on L.A. RECORD today . Wasn't quite as heavy as the talk with RZA , which is probably one of the realest interviews I have ever done—though rivaled by Moris Tepper, who was just a page away in the same issue—but it happened [...]
Download: Paperplanes 'Honky Tonk' Download: Henry Clay People 'Andy Sings!' Download: Happy Hollows 'Lieutenant' Thanks to Ashley for the reminder— great show at Alex's Bar in Long Beach tonight . If I wasn't fearful of resicking, [...]
But he did sing me about six songs over the phone while I interviewed him this morning. He was left all alone afterhours in the office of his Tried and True Music in Austin , just killing a little time before he was out to go see Guy Clark , actually, and so he was in a pretty personable mood. Talked about drifting on nitrous with Pete Stampfel from the Holy Modal Rounders after treatment by student dentists in New York, about how [...]
Download: Scotty Coats 'Beautiful Ones' Download: NON STOP 'Hydration Explosion' (both from Not Wave out now on Rong/DFA) Three conjoined reviews for L.A. WEEKLY on the happily coincidental release of bunch of electronicoid-psychedelicish tracks from locals. Indulge my reminiscing below; get MP3s and junk for the trouble. [...]
I interviewed Guy Clark today—poor Guy; me all slugged up with flu—for an article I'm working on for S.F. WEEKLY (also including Loudon Wainwright , who talked about grinding up his corpse and selling it to fans after he died) and besides a little about his upcoming album and a little about the song he's currently got scribbled on a bar napkin on his desk, we ended up talking Roky Erickson , as everyone who talks to me must sooner or later. Townes Van Zandt was Roky's roommate for [...]
Download: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Bring It On' (from Nocturama on Anti) Nick Cave interview up at L.A. RECORD . The nice folks at Anti told me I'd only have fifteen minutes with him and instead he talked me until I was out of questions, and then politely me let me go gently after another ten minutes of cheerful b.s.-ing. Big regret: learned a day later ( thanks, [...]
photo by patrick miller Download: Good Foot Tenth Anniversary Mix from L.A. RECORD (also check Thavius Beck's theme song at the beginning!) Long Beach funk/soul club the Good Foot —the place I went the first time I ever came to Long Beach—is celebrating their tenth anniversary tonight and founder Dennis Owens invited me to DJ. Many thanks for even being considered—I'm pulling out a lot of 45s [...]
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The Rains of Castamere by The National
Nas - Daughters
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
A Place To Bury Strangers - "You Are The One" (Official Video)
Azealia Banks - '1991' [Listen]
Metric Debuts Album via Synthetica Hide+Seek, Tickets On Sale Now For Fall Tour
