Right now at a chilly warehouse in Echo Park, things are down to the wire on the construction of the great mouse-trap like set of "This Too Shall Pass." Inspired by the wacky contraptions built by inventor Rube Goldberg ( see her e), this is the music video for the recorded version of their second single. Damian Kulash gave us a careful (there were rigged up pianos and the miniscule risk of electrocution) conceptual tour of the whole shebang, which is filming on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. OK Go set a high bar [...]
Fan Fiction, aside from an ingredients panel, is the most marginal of literary genres. Since the 17th century when Cervantes' Don Quixote was sabotaged by amateur scribblers, Fan Fiction throughout the ages has clung to the underbelly of good writing like barnacles on the Starship Enterprise . Last month I was challenged by Music To Spazz By Jingle Producer Nutley Sam Elwitt to partake in a literary joust of the schlubbiest kind: an Adam-12 Fan Fiction Contest. Adam-12 Fan Fiction really does exist and it's serious business [...]
</center< This week, we bring you Top 10 Albums from 2000-2009 lists as determined by Loud Loop Press editors and contributors. Today, Associate Editor Andy Kahn starts things off with a bang with his list for the Top 10 Albums from 2000 - 2009. 1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot It took a long and arduous process both creatively and commercially to ultimately produce what is the [...]
Jeremy R. Jansen A birthday party is a bit of an odd time to announce a memorial, but such was the case this past February when, at the end of the successful 9th anniversary bash for Toronto's venerable Wavelength weekly music series, it was announced that the 2010, 10th anniversary shows would also mark the final edition of the showcase... at least in its present form. While the weekly showcases are ending, the Wavelength marque and ethos will continue on via monthly showcases and one-off events, thus ensuring that the stages that gave [...]
Mighty High - Drops a Deuce - Cable TV Eye b/w Hands Up! (live n nasty) There's no doubt about it. Mighty High really is Brooklyn's most "regressive rock act." Draped by some of the most mind-blowing R. Crumb style artwork imaginable (courtesy of Wayne Braino Bjerke) Mighty High really do drop a deuce onto an unsuspecting, slightly horrified public with this amplified, hellified, fuzzified blitzkrieg of raving retro, primal bone marrow rock and roll. Just imagine someone driving a big old rusty screw bit right through the [...]
Mason Proper Park The Van Tour featuring Floating Action and Generationals Friday, July 31st @ Hotel Cafe (more info) Stellastarr* with Wild Night and Mason Proper Friday, July 31st @ Troubadour (more info) Future of the Left with Japandroids and Dead Ponies Friday, July 31st @ Spaceland (more info) MP3: Japandroids - Press Corps MP3: Floating Action - Say Goodbye [...]
Malkmus was a bit disappointing on Saturday night. But on to this week.... Monday 7/27/09 [Pick of the Week] Radar Bros . / The Minor Canon / Dragging An Ox Through Water @ Bordello ($5) - Two of my favorite current bands. [Recommended] Jarvis Cocker / Little Joy @ The Wiltern ($5 if you're a Citicard member / $35 otherwise) The Mekons / The Pulsars / Bollweevil @ The Echo [...]
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Monday 7/20/09 [Pick of the Night] The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Girls / Champagne Socialists @ the Echo ($14) – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart record is one of my favorite records of the year. If you're into that post-C86, early Jesus & Mary Chain I think you'll dig it. They put on a better live show than you'd expect too. I haven't heard much from Girls, but I know Scott from Surfing on [...]
John Fogerty @ Hollywood Bowl Natalie Portman's Shaved Head @ Spaceland One Trick Pony, Ema and the Ghosts, The Sleeping Bags, VOICEsVOICEs @ Mr. T's Bowl Shwayze @ Galaxy Concert Theatre Killsonic, Vanaprasta, Beatnik Jr., Angels & Demons @ Troubadour Dead Ponies, Carnage Asada, Jellmunekita, The Fay Wrays @ The BLVD The Wallburds, Tall Hands, Dirt Dress @ Silver Factory Studios Midnite Theory, MC Homeless & Liz Aeby, Open Mike Eagle, Cadilack Ron @ pehrspace Treasure Fingers, Destructo, Elektrochasm, Mr. White @ Avalon Pentagram @ House of Blues (Sunset) Yusuf [...]
Batman , Star Trek , Terminator , Robocop ….the list of "reboots" Hollywood suits have been frantically green-lighting and cramming into cineplexes over the past few years just keeps getting longer and weirder. Note to aspiring screenwriters, producers, actors, and craft service folks: want to get your movie made? Just walk into that important meeting and casually pepper the word "reboot" throughout your pitch and you're golden. Want some real proof of the "R" word's narcotizing effect on those holding Hollywood's purse strings? Consider this: the Scream trilogy is being remade all [...]
Monday 6/15/09 [Pick of the Night] The Lassie Foundation / Amusement Parks on Fire / Magic Mirror / The Broken Remotes @ The Echoplex (Free) – This is a celebration for the anniversary of Bronson's Buzz Bands blog. [Recommended] Charlie Wadhams / Joseph Childress / Mia Maestro and Aaron Robinson @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) – Recommended for Wadhams, I'm not familiar with the other artists. [Recommended] Castledoor / Deep Sea Diver / Gumshoe / Agent Ribbons [...]
Happy 1000! This is my 1,000th post. Quite an achievement right? So to celebrate, I've made a list of the top 100 Irish albums of all time. I didn't follow any strict rules, but just along the lines of acts that are considered Irish. Thus the Pogues are considered Irish because of Shane McGowan rather than the rest of the guys, but no-one ever claims Aphex Twin. Well not that I know of anyway. Feel free to abuse me for leaving something out, or giving preference to one album or another. I love the comments. And the fallout. Hopefully. [...]
[Another reason to mope — Morrissey turns 50 today. I don't know what path he will take, but I stopped taking off my shirt in public about that age. Moz will be feted by the obligatory show by covermeisters Sweet and Tender Hooligans at the House of Blues, if you feel like celebrating ...] Today: I think there's a show for every palate tonight, even if there are a few that I can't believe the fuss over . ... The Kills , the Horrors [...]
We were two girls. They were 25 bands spread over three rooms in the Exchange Hotel. Our task was to attend Essential Festival and live to tell the tale. But there was a complication. Student poverty dictated that we must brave Essential without the aid of glorious alcohol. It was going to be a long night. _ 6.00pm - Cloud Control _ Cloud Control are probably one of my favourite bands right now and I was excited to see them live. As we ran down the stairs of Oxford Art [...]
About a year ago, I had a show in the wonderful city of Salisbury, NC and I decided to rock a new, white Big Pony Polo along with a pair of white Big Pony shoes. I was feeling myself, fresh to death and ready to rock the crowd. Of course, a brother was kind of nervous, so I decided to go outside and get some fresh air. I stood next to the bouncer to chop it up. He was marking some hands with blue Sharpie pens. Then, his pen runs out of ink. * shake shake [...]
VOY A EXPLO TAR LAS CANCIONES DE MARU Y ROMAN Soundtrack Release By Carlos Reyes Cover painting by Kent Williams Voy a Explotar is the soon-to-be released film from El Revolcadero and Canana, the product [...]
No guitars, no dogs. I don't want to go here, but Jan did. By order of The Vinyl Villain , Dearest Tim has banned all guitars from this week's Contrast Podcast . Other than banishment from the episode, I'm not sure what the penalty would have been for not respecting the Guitar-Free Zone. But I wasn't going to find out. Download the 'cast here to find out how good music can be without axes of any sort. Guitarless [...]
In Berlin as I type this. Two days ago Jamey and I took the train from Amsterdam across beautiful Dutch and German countryside. It was a long, warm, comfortable trip; seven hours of staring out the window at Shetland ponies in yards, tiny villas and farmhouses with snow-covered roofs, and miles of spindly black forest. (And here, as Americans, Jamey and I imagined slogging across bomb-scarred German farmland weighed down with packs and rifles while anti-aircraft guns coughed in the distance. Trench blues. Eternal Band of Brothers . After hours of lounging around a booth in the [...]
If you missed it, Part 1 . 11. Lil' Wayne (New Orleans, LO) Tha Carter III I don't speak 'Homeboyeeze' so I'm not sure what to say about Lil' Wayne (Weezy?) other than he should stick to rapping and give up his blogging, because he can barely speak English, let alone write. Not that I'm professing to be God's gift to the field, but, I can write ... a sentence... and... words. And, in my opinion ESPN would be better off putting the money [...]
Never have I thought it would go beyond a year when I started this blog, and it is already in its third year running now. Making into the fourth year soon, it is the time for me to list down my annual top 20 tracks again. Looking at the list of this year and of previous years, we indeed have evolved in our music taste. I would say 2008 is the year for electro-pop, it feels like 80s all over again, even though I have never experienced the prime of the sometime overly-glamorized era where people try their best to [...]
Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Review)
New Releases V2.9
2010 Bonnaroo Artists Unveiled
Massive Attack is inconsistent, but ultimately gratifying, on Heligoland
