Back in 1997 Anthony Lovett and Matt Maranian wrote and published what eventually became my favorite Los Angeles guidebook. That book's name was (and is) LA Bizarro . A few years ago on this website I talked to Matt about the original book's undertaking ( fun interview with Matt here ). Since that time the two authors have now revised, updated and significantly expanded that original tome, and their collective output was published by Chronicle Books just this fall. In the 2009 updated edition of LA Bizarro (available at the time of this [...]
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The Bloodsugars stellar debut album, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On was released this week on Engine Room Recordings. After their short Midwest tour last week, including a great show in Cincinnati, singer/guitarist Jason Rabinowitz was able to take some some time to answer some questions about the creative process and theme of the new album, some of their new favorite bands and the their new-found love for Bobby McFerrin. Atlas and the Anchor: My favorite song on I Can't Go [...]
Well, this is long overdue, and I've missed you a lot - but it's so worth the wait! Abstrakt's Quick Six is back with all the love you need. Get some!! Untold - Gonna Work Out Fine EP ( Hemlock ) A range of dubstyle biz from a rising superstar of the bass and beats genre. 6 cuts going from heavy and dark to almost industrial grime, and through to funky [...]
Album of the Quarter : A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar Runners up: Memory Tapes - Seek Magic , Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem I am well aware that this podcast is a good month and a half removed from the end of 2009's third quarter, and that we are balls deep in the year's capping three-month span. But, perhaps the extra reflection has further winnowed the included tracks down from the fickle week to week whims of the blogosphere? Let's just pretend that that's [...]
We didn't have time to squeeze this into the paper, but there are two hip-hop shows of note tonight and tomorrow, both featuring Tash of the Alkaholiks and Prince Po. For this we can thank PDX hip-hop mogul My-G and his faithful companion DJ Wicked, who host tomorrow night's big show at the Crown Room. See the flier below for tomorrow's show info. But if you're under 21, or just have some free time this evening, howzabout checking out Prince Po, Tash, Black Silver, Main Flow, Kiew Nycon and Sleep at 7 pm tonight at Someone [...]
By Oliver Wang Mainstream R&B radio, retail and video industries never had cause to pay retro-soul much mind until Amy Winehouse demonstrated its commercial potential. ( Sean Gallup / Getty Images Entertainment ) In the early 1990s, two brothers and some friends in Munich formed the Poets of Rhythm, a band inspired by the "deep [...]
Todos los años desde NME nos llega una producción que se trata básicamente de una recopilación con lo que para ellos son las mejores canciones de ese año en particular. Esta vez el NME The Album 2009 tendrá en su tracklist canciones de nada menos que bandas como Muse, Kasabian, Green Day o Yeah Yeah Yeahs. La recopilación de temas vendrá en dos discos que sumarán un total de nada menos que 40 canciones de famosos grupos de todo el mundo. Les dejo [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys collects stories, poems, and essays by sex workers. Compiled by David Henry Sterry and RJ Martin, Jr., the book organizes this collection of refreshingly genuine and brutally honest writings by category (love, life, money, etc.). The New York Times wrote of the book: "From the unappealing title, you might think this is a truly trashy [...]
Part one of a 5 part post: Music.......it's been my life. From the second I emerged from the womb I have had a love for music. Music is constantly playing around me at all times....when I go to sleep (or when I am alone in my thoughts) it is ALWAYS playing in my head. There is never a second that I am not hearing music in one form or another. From the very first 45RPM single I purchased when I was 5 years old ("Band On The Run" by WINGS [...]
Sometimes the connections linking different styles of the music are not obvious, other times the relationships are directly stated. "Work Song," a jazz classic by cornetist Nat Adderley with lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., represents a conscious effort to acknowledge the debt modern jazz owes to an earlier form of music. The song is also a critique of the American system of injustice that prevailed during the first half of the 20th century. Just as there were differences from state to state and from time period to time period, these musical versions aurally illustrate diverse variations [...]
I feel good now, on my first night in the cabin. I had a sickly sad feeling of uncertainty wash over me on the long drive down the rocky dirt road tonight, but now, here I feel alright. There was the idea of putting all this off, of working here during the day, of whipping this old cabin into living shape, slaving in the sun, cleaning, bleaching, killing mice, and then shutting it up and driving the long way back into Monterrey to wash my clothes, take a hot shower and sleep in a soft bed. Now, it seems, I've [...]
What's up this weekend to all our of BlackRadioIsBack.com and FuseBox Radio Broadcast folk... Just wanted to share this really dope segment from the weekly Hip-Hop news series This Week With Jasiri X. In this series (which I can give myself a late pass on following), talented Pittsburgh, PA Hip-Hop MC, Activist, Entrepreneur and Hip-Hop News Anchor Jasiri X reports different segments of the National News via rhyme over the latest & greatest beats. Much love to the brother Paradise the Arkitech a.k.a. Paradise Gray of X-Clan (who [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Hanan Al-Shaykh's The Locust and The Bird is a unique memoir, a mother's life written by her estranged daughter, told in the first person. Not many authors could pull this off, but Al-Shaykh, widely regarded as one of the Arab world's finest writers, does so with incredible effect. Kamila (Al-Shaykh's mother) can neither read nor write, so she dictates her story of a forced marriage, search for true [...]
It's been almost three weeks since I got back from The Bridge School Benefit shows and if I postpone this post any longer, it may end up like my never posted Calgary Folk Fest '07 Part II (sigh). Quickly, Ben Folds with the Seattle Symphony was awesome as expected (from the 2nd row!), but The Very Best show in San Francisco was unceremoniously cancelled on the day of the show since Esau Mwamwaya had passport issues getting into the US... very disappointing. After the stage was blessed by native [...]
Kevn Kinney's an easygoing, disarmingly funny kind of guy, but when he gets down to brass tacks - singing and wailing away on guitar, that is - he packs quite a wallop of soul, R&B, power pop, rock, folk, country, blues and more than a little grit. That's long been the secret sauce for the music he's made with Drivin' n' Cryin' and solo: easy to get into, often lighthearted and even funny, but let it get to you, and you realize it's loaded with heartbreak, wrenching drama and deep soul. [...]
NORAH JONES TO PERFORM "CHASING PIRATES" ON CBS LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN TONIGHT PERFORMANCES ALSO CONFIRMED ON ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA, COMEDY CENTRAL THE COLBERT REPORT & ABC THE VIEW; INTERVIEWS CONFIRMED ON ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE, CNN HEADLINE NEWS & NPR MORNING EDITION CRITICS RAVE ABOUT JONES' NEW ALBUM "THE FALL" SET FOR RELEASE ON EMI'S BLUE NOTE RECORDS NOVEMBER 17 Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will kick off a run of TV appearances tonight, November 11, on CBS Late Show With David Letterman with a performance of "Chasing Pirates," the lead single from [...]
As I suspected would happen, I forgot to turn off my alarm clock last night, and was jolted to life this morning with far less than the appropriate amount of sleep. The Boys Are Leaving Town began blasting through my room, and in my confused haze I came to realize just how much the song reminds me of Sometimes from My Bloody Valentine (listen to it here ); as a big fan of shoegazing, this pleased me a great deal. The Boys Are Leaving Town is the opening track to the Japandroids [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
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