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Here's a really sweet acoustic ditty from Spencer Livingston, lead singer of the Alternates. A la AA Bondy or Jeff Tweedy. Listen and melt: Now go listen to Livingston's band. Just back in LA from a NW coast foray, Americana rockers, the Alternates, have a killer new EP out called Spiders and Webs. (Check out [...]
:: Country Mice - Festival mp3 :: This one grabbed hold of me like a stickaburr from the hill country. Rustic rock brought to you from Brooklyn via the Midwest. Look forward to their debut album, Twister, in June. :: Hunx and His Punx - Lovers Lane mp3 :: Naughty but clean here, Hunx injects [...]
This was fun. Even before the 'Pie and Tart' home studio was built out and put together, our good friends from Propellerhead suggested the kind of 2-day bash we can really dig: freeform recording with friends who are top singer-songwriters and players. The equation, which produced good times and two awesome new songs (listen and [...]
While sorting through cyber-mountains of files during re-entry to the Luxury Wafers atmosphere, I ran across this video of one of my all-time most memorable and favorite sessions: Crystal Antlers. Oh man. Awesome. Details of the session are blurry in my memory. From the calendar, I know it was late afternoon in July of 2009. [...]
Iron and Wine, the band formerly aka simply Sam Beam, has expanded to Beam and friends in their latest release, Kiss Each Other Clean (which actually doesn't drop 'till 1/25/2011 - pre-order here). You can listen to the album in its entirety on the aesthetically groovy player below, courtesy of Iron and Wine/Team Coco. (Catch Iron [...]
Hola! Que tal? Where to begin?! I've missed you, friends. It's been so long. There was a time when I was exhausted and nauseated. Then I swelled to unbelievably enormous proportions. Then, after the passing of numerous moons, I sprung a new little Waferlet. She's 5 months old now and, happily, she happens to dig good [...]
Butch Norton and Peter Malick are longtime friends and lifelong players. When the two get together it's always shenanigans of the best variety. Part mad scientist, part steady mountain, Butch (Eels, Lucinda Williams) enlivens anything from a standard drum kit to fancy specialized percussion instruments to appliance parts. With inexhaustible awe, Butch hears opportunity for [...]
The Most Serene Republic, a 7 piece collective from Ontario, Canada, smooths rough edges with their exquisitely fluid pools of pop buoyed by piano, guitar, bass and drums, animated by Adrian and Emma's dreamy voices and elegantly embellished with brass and banjo. Altogether, the band pours out enchanted, imaginative blurs with plenty of moving parts [...]
Puerto Rican garage-punk, party rockers, Davila 666, dropped into Kingsize Soundlabs for Luxury Wafers back in October, loaded with cavalier flair and magnetic machismo. For this super fun session, the notorious group of 6, who earned a raucous US reputation while touring with Black Lips and King Khan & BBQ Show, left off their hallmark [...]
What I love about the young, old-sounding souls, Wye Oak from Baltimore, is the womb they create. Between Jenn Wasner's mesmerizing, melty voice - like warm poured liquid - plus heavily enveloping guitar and Andy Stack's arrangements, which include crashing cymbals, pounding drums and keyboard drones, there's a wall of insulation erected that begs escape [...]
Deer Tick offers up the first mp3 from their upcoming June release on Partisan, The Black Dirt Sessions. This song conjures the experience of walking alone down an ungroomed dirt road under midwestern beating sun and clear skies - just you and some mosquitoes - while wearing a hundred pound backpack and tattered shoes, [...]
Adam Green, son of a neurologist, brother of an astrophysicist, and former Moldy Peach with Kimya Dawson (their Anyone Else But You was featured in Juno), is wide open, funny in a dry way, super comfy and very friendly. He's happy to sit and chat for a bit about two young female musicians he followed [...]
First things first, go and download the KillRockStars Best Sampler Ever. 21 songs from some of your already faves and perhaps some new ones, too. Go. Do it. HERE. Next, Amanda Fucking Palmer is up to something dramatic. What's new. Dresden Doll and current punk cabaret queen, AFP is newly free from label, Roadrunner Records, and [...]
Funny thing. On yesterday's rainy cool LA morning, I stumbled across a golden new Family of the Year track: Chugjug [mp3] from their new 4-song EP Through the Trees (Hero, Chugjug, The Barn, and The Princess and The Pea) which even sports a reggae-flavored piece with contribution from friend and LW veteran Willy Mason. I was thinking, [...]
Luscious layers of vocal harmony spiced with doe-eyed friskiness mark the timeless songs of The Living Sisters, the exceptional trio of already individually accomplished LA singer-songwriters: Inara George (The Bird and The Bee), Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond). Substantive yet refreshing, soulful yet light-hearted, The Living Sisters' songs lure irresistibly. Because they're sung for [...]
Cursive plays LA Friday, April 2nd (that's tomorrow) at House of Blues with Alkaline Trio. Their recent album, Mama, I'm Swollen, came out 3/10/09 on Saddle Creek. Cursive's newly released single, Discovering America, benefits the American Indian College Fund. Listen below: Discovering America [mp3] We loved having the guys in for a live Luxury Wafers session. Here's [...]
Attend a haunting soiree with Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs: Forget It [mp3] The new album, Medicine County, officially emerged in the US on 3/30/10 (Transdreamer). No doubt video is an effective means for sharing a song without giving away the track. Becoming A Jackal from Irish artist, Villagers (Conor J. O'Brien, formerly of The Immediate), [...]
Drawing from myriad genres, AM's sonic creations, which rely heavily on well-arranged and well-executed full band sound, evoke comfortable reminiscence and - dare I say it - easy listening, not in the elevator sense, but in the sense of not aggressively in-your-face, rather pleasantly uplifting pop you can work to, answer the phone by, [...]