I fucking love to fly. But I hate dying in plane crashes. So when a plane goes down I start buying plane tickets like it's my fucking job. No seriously I'm a traveling agent. Kidding! See what I did was fool you into thinking something was true that indeed was not actually the truth. I learned that trick from comedy school. Hahaha! (This is another trick I use. It's like when you hear laughter after a joke that wasn't funny on a sit com. It kind of makes you laugh inside. Like reading Hahahaha! doesn't make you smile a bit?) [...]
Meiko, Hotel Café in Hollywood, tonight, June 3rd Brandi Carlisle, The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, June 4th Little Joy, Troubadour in West Hollywood, Friday June 5th The jacarandas in Hollywood are shedding everywhere. On my drive to work through East Hollywood on into K-Town, every fifth car is covered in the fallen purple blossoms. It looks really nice, but I know it's a pain to clean up, and they rot quickly and smell terrible. Ah, c'est la vie, I guess. Beautiful things sometimes sour... quickly. Depressing. Sorry, what [...]
Brad Walsh is currently in the studio working on his upcoming album "Human Nature". When he is not recoding original tracks, he's spinning peoples not so hot pop into beats that do that...kicking thing. If you like Kat Deluna's original version of Unstoppable, you most surely enjoy this remix. If you thought Kat Deluna's original was the worst song ever, I'd still bet you listen to this like you eat Doritos. Kat Deluna - "Unstoppable (Brad Walsh Remix)"
Los Angeles has perfect weather about 99% of the year. In the summer it's only like 3 degrees warmer but for some reason all the hot chicks decide they're not prancing around scantily clad style until after Memorial Day. It's about my favorite time of year because it means the longest period of time I have to go before I see another fugly turtleneck. I decided to celebrate my new found love affair with staring at hot women walking on the sidewalk by taking my eleven foot boa constrictor out for a ride on my Harley while bumping the new [...]
I got captured by a couple of pirates when I was looking for Amelia Earhart's downed ship a number of years back. Best three weeks of my life. All we did was drink rum (without a straw!), pound through wenches and sing our merry tails of conquest. Of course they tried to get me to walk the plank, but that shits just business. Ain't got nothing but love for the pirates. The captain only had one piece of vinyl in his collection. Imprinted in the grooves was this Sufjan Stevens album called "Come on Feel the Illinoise". He said he [...]
Like a JFK assassination or a 9/11 attack, I remember the exact moment I first saw/heard Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I was laying on a hotel bed in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The music video for "Maps" started playing. A bunch of us were drinking and laughing, but right then everyone stopped cold. That drum starts up and we were entranced. I think I got a hold of a copy of Fever To Tell a couple days later and wore out track number 9. It's Blitz came out 2.5 months ago and I ignored it, [...]
Call me a cock-eyed pessimist, but I find the seminal story behind this band a little hard to swallow. Could it actually be true? An EP put together as a VALENTINE'S DAY GIFT from the band's frontman to his girlfriend at Emerson got around well enough to make him an instant hit? Or is it possible, just possible, that this is a groomed story to draw even more attention to the band? Perhaps the EP was ALSO given to the GF while having not been INTENDED for the gf. A fine line, I feel, and one easily blurred by the [...]
I really try to stay on top of these things. I do. Falling behind on new music is as embarrassing as those dreams about being in your underwear at school (I've been out of school for years now, do those ever stop?). We've written about Feist before. We've written about Grizzly Bear before (a couple times). So I hate to be repetitive, but I couldn't pass up posting about this little gem. A collaboration between the two of them is like the stuff dreams are made of (and not the type of dreams aforementioned). And truly, this [...]
I shall celebrate our hard earned freedom as UHMERIKAHNS this weekend, by jamming out to this Phoenix song while tapping some hot blond ass. (Could be wrong on the hair color, your mom tends to dye it on me from time to time without warning. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think...Yeah it's kind of hot.) If their MGMT remix wasn't enough...this Phoenix remix is also sick. Can Holy Ghost make any song fucking brilliant? I'd give him a Jonas Brothers song to find out...but to test out my theory I'd have to listen to the Jonas [...]
All right so we had a clerical error. After I figured out that my assistant didn't fuck up, I just had my dates crossed- I had her go get me tickets for me and some other people that won't be named. We'll call them 'anonymous'. I swear in L.A you never even know what day it is. Every day it's sunny and you're surrounded by hot chicks. It's really not my fault though..It's impossible to tell one day from the other. It's just chasing tail and swilling beers for cheers right? Anyways thanks to my friend (who is a [...]
I bet you 20 bucks that if I had the good fortune to run into Feist in any type of social situation - I would try to get in her pants. At least twice. I used to listen to this Chromeo remix of Sea Lion last year at about this time when I was hunting crocodiles in Florida for my annual spring break. I didn't find a single one the entire time I was there. Found a fuck load of Alligators though. Those are some nasty creatures for sure. *****Editors Note: Normally there is [...]
LA don't dance. That's what I came to realize last night as me and my three lovely cohorts gyrated and bounced and rocked out to the musical genius of Ben Folds. Three of us were die-hard fans to begin with, and I'm pretty sure the fourth is now a concert convert. Ben is a rocker. Don't let his physical demeanor and the fact that he sits behind a piano fool you. Actually, he hardly ever "sits" behind the piano. He spends most of the concert half standing over the bench railing on the ivories faster than my eyes distinguish. But [...]
Whichever one of my assistants let it slip under my radar that the Kills would be playing at the Henry Fonda is about to be fucking fired. They'll be playing there tonight ...and if I didn't have to wade through a two hour session with your mom I'd be there too. I hate getting double booked like this. Needless to say she and I will spend a lot of time listening to this Vega Remix I stole from This Sexy Website Here . In other news the Ill Lillies will be descending upon Los Angeles [...]
After a killer opening set from Adam Stern , Jenny Owen Youngs (J.O.Y) brought down the house. While her last album was fairly rad her goal on this one was to "Not get stuck on tour for the next three years playing stuff people didn't want to dance to". That's not an actual quote. It's kind of like something I read she said somewhere on some other blog but I'm too lazy to try and remember where it was. And I would have included a better song but I'm trying to migrate like 3 computers [...]
I saw so many ugly people on my way to work this morning, I got depressed. The only thing that kept me from google dot com-ing 'how to magically turn a rope into a noose' was this Tom Ato remix of Grizzly Bear's Two Weeks. It would probably be a good idea to listen to this with a pillow placed under your dome, as my chin still hurts from my jaw hitting the floor when the beat dropped out. This has been my own personal soundtrack while I build a Rube Goldberg contraption to get rid of [...]
If you like hanging out with hot chicks, you should enjoy going to one of Adam Sterns shows. Flooded with hot chicks. I promise you. Adam Stern will be playing his debut show at Hotel Cafe next Saturday evening. Labeled as "Organic Pop", Stern has been known to drop Sunshower Rain into some 4-on-the-floor house beats that will give your dancing feet something to groove on. Practice dancing to that one in the mirror. You're really going to want to impress the ladies with your moves on that one. Jenny Owen Youngs and Jukebox [...]
On Wednesday morning, CNN's top headline in the entertainment section read "Ben Folds hears new voices." About an hour after I saw it, it read "'Brick' hitmaker hears new voices." A sad revision, I feel. I have seen Ben Folds in concert more than any other artist. This was due to a near unhealthy obsession with the mastermind musician in high school and college, even pulling off the hat trick: seeing him in Houston, Austin and Dallas for one tour. Singling him out for "Brick" is like talking about Radiohead as the one-hit wonders [...]
Pink and Noseworthy's new album is to die for. After it kills you, it might make you crawl right back out of your grave - just to hear it one more time. And... that's just the recorded version. I saw them play tracks off their newest album last Sunday and it's safe to say I'd probably push my grandmother down a flight of stairs just to see them play again. Keep in mind I love my grandmother. Luckily they're playing this Sunday at Hotel Cafe and according to my inside sources, nobody needs to [...]
For the fourth year in a row I'm attending the Easter service at the Hollywood Bowl run by Bel Air Pres byterian Church on Sunday at 11:00am (you're welcome to join and sit in the nose bleeds... me being a good church-going sinner, I got box seat tickets weeks ago... Yes, that's right, I'm flaunting my good seats for a CHURCH service). The service heralds not only the return of the Messiah, but also the fast-approaching Summer Bowl Concert Series . I got my calendar in the mail and immediately made some highlights, which I will [...]
Even though Mr. Schwarzenegger's state deficit began to swell to a size that dwarfs his collective box office returns, music education is in grave danger. Sadly layoffs are a comin'. And music teachers are fair game. Arnie, if you happen to come across this article on a random Google vanity search, please read: Take a look at your destiny, dear Terminator. Music teachers are like the Resistance, get rid of them and they'll come back in larger numbers... and stronger. And they'll scavenge your metallic arms and legs and use them against you; metaphysically, I mean. [...]
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