Brilliant Colors (San Francisco, CA) Welcome back from the holiday break! It is a new decade can you believe it? I sure can't. I even went as far as accidentally writing 20010 on my rent check because I'm so used to the double zeroes. Plenty of amazing shows this week including our show of the week featuring San Francisco's Briliant Colors . Seriously download their track "Absolutely Anything" in the sidebar and tell me that's not a smash. They will be joined [...]
Sonic Youth Play the Wiltern on Saturday Lots of January residencies begin this week (not a lot of touring bands in town).... Monday 1/4/10 [Pick of the Night] The French Semester / Letting Up Despite Great Faults / The Spires / The Health Club @ The Echo (Free) – The French Semester are doing the free Monday night residency in January. Get there to see LUDGF. [Recommended] Year Long Disaster / Open Hand [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Sonic Youth Fri Jan 8 Fox Theater Pomona Sat Jan 9 The Wiltern NEXT WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAY The Pee-wee Herman Show Thurs Jan 14 Club Nokia 4-week engagement starts January 12 Performance schedule & Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] [...]
Dr. Dog Appear at El Rey on Tuesday Night Monday 10/5/09 [Pick of the Night] School of Seven Bells / Warpaint / Phantogram @ Troubadour ($15) – The ex-Secret Machines guitar player. [Recommended] Thom Yorke @ Orpheum (Sold Out) – I'm not really a fan of Eraser, but I heard the show at the Echoplex was good. [Recommended] Light FM / We Barbarians / Tigers Can Bite You [...]
If there are two things that we love it's music and biking. On August 2 our loves will again be united for an epic ride of titans. There promises to be all sorts of surprises including games, prizes, raffle tickets, fun, clues to the location of the after party, and a live performance during the ride from our friends in Head Hunters . The after party includes sets by noMSG, The Mae Shi (DJ set), Intricate Machines , Kissing Tigers and Daedelus . After party also sports an open bar and is just [...]
Slowdance Records is calling it quits. The label posted this on their website: It's been a fun 10 years but now it's time we put the label to bed. But this is not a sad time. We are very proud of our past decade of releasing independent music. Our endless appreciation goes out to all our respective bands and artists. We can never thank you enough. Thank you all. We had a blast. The label was home to releases from The Velvet Teen , The Intima , The [...]
Tons of pre-SXSW, national touring bands in town this week. Last week I went back to Largo for the Radar Bros. and Lambchop. That room sounds great. Still no liquor license, but you can run down the street for beer or wine and really confuse the people at Real Food Daily. I've got some tickets to give away for Richard Swift this Friday at Spaceland. Email me (dukeufo at gmail) with the name of your favorite Swift song. The contest closes Thursday at 5:00 PM. Winners will be notified [...]
[Fifty years ago today, Barbie was born. She's a doll. Was she ever a rock star? Everything you need to know .] Cut Copy hits SoCal for the first of three shows in as many days — tonight it's the Glass House, followed by a two-night stand at the Music Box @ Fonda. ... There's a big bluesy lineup at the Viper Room; among the bands are Rumspringa [pictured] and 1921A . ... The Monday residencies will be going great guns: Aushua [...]
I know I once again flaked on posting, but I've had a cold for the past couple of weeks that just doesn't know when to leave. Kind of like the creepy, wasted guy at the afterparty who can't seem to catch a hint. I'm feeling quite well today, so I took advantage of the better health and spent pretty much this entire day catching up on email and snail mail submissions. And to make up for my delay, today's post is going to be a massive one. I hate to say that I won't be able to give [...]
Passemos então à segunda e última parte dos meus tops de 2008, desta feita dedicada às canções. Este ano optei por não me restringir à tirania dos singles : os 35 temas que se seguem são aqueles que, inquestionavelmente, me deram mais gozo ouvir em 2008, quer fossem singles ou não. E como diria o sábio André Forte , alguns deles servem ainda para, de certa forma, homenagear e dar o merecido destaque a bandas ou músicos cujo nome, por um motivo ou outro, não coube nas outras duas listas. Eis então [...]
As is the case every year, this list is based first on a computerized analysis of my playlists from the past year, during which I note how frequently I played songs from the different releases that came out over the past 12 months; and second, on my subsequent re-arrangement of those computerized results based on how much I actually liked everything. This may appear contradictory, but sometimes the records and CDs that I end up playing the most are not the ones I liked the most. Please enjoy the Four Horsemen of 2008 releases rated below, and leave [...]
Before 2008 fully comes to a close, we've checked back in with our roster of Discover the Undiscovered bands to see what they have brewing for the new year. We're elated with the group of bands we've brought into this program and urge you to check our their music, if you haven't already. We predict big things for this lot and we're proud to give them an outlet to spread the gospel of good music. If you are interested in submitting your music to this program, please check us out on Sonicbids and look for [...]
Interesting shows around Los Angeles this week: Monday 12/8 AC/DC, The Answer @ Forum Xu Xu Fang, EXITMUSIC, Winter Flowers, Corridor @ Echo James Walsh (Starsailor) @ Hotel Cafe Me'Shell Ndegeocello @ House of Blues (Sunset) The Movies, Rademacher, Vibe Slayer, Sarah Negahdari @ Spaceland Realicide, Halloween Swim Team, Skhara, Aymeric Hainaux @ Pehrspace Emily Lacy, Blanket, Misscinncinati, Pacific Trim, Monstro @ Echo Curio Circus Minor @ Viper Room Tuesday 12/9 [...]
I made it out to the first night of the Movies residency last week. Good show and I'm sure they'll only get better. Also saw Oasis in Vegas (but I wrote this before actually seeing them). Monday 12/8/08 [Recommended] The Movies / Rademacher / Vibeslayer / Sarah Negahdari (The Happy Hollows) @ Spaceland (Free) Xu Xu Fang / Winter Flowers / Exitmusic [...]
Filter is proud to announce our November addition to the Discover The Undiscovered family, meet The Fling from Long Beach, CA! The SoCal foursome blends together a unique mix of folk, pop, and psychedelic rock to create a sound that is both familiar and new. With Dustin Lovelis (guitar, vocals) Graham Lovelis (bass, vocals) Justin Roeland (guitar, keys, vocals) and Justin Ivey (drums), their songs can range anywhere from a slow, acoustic waltz reminiscent of Elliott Smith to a complete wall of sound like that of Pink Floyd . Constantly experimenting with multi-layered harmonies, [...]
The Henry Clay People are having a record release party this Friday at Spaceland to celebrate the release of their newest LP, For Cheap or For Free on Autumn Tone Records. It's a really fun record that captures the spirit of the band. Joining them on the bill will be Le Switch (9:00 PM), The Parson Red Heads (10:00 PM) and Downtown/Union (midnight). I have two pairs of tickets to give away for the show . Email me [dukeufo at gmail] with the name of of your favorite local band. The contest closes Friday at [...]
I'm going to break from my usual light-hearted fare featuring talking tigers and war atrocities to post something important by John DiBello, a good friend of mine and the Little Stuffed Bull's human sidekick, about something that bugs the shit out of me and needs to be brought to the attention of the widest audience possible. Those of you into the comics and comics convention scene have quite possibly witnessed or experienced similar bullshit in some form or another. Those of you who aren't into the comics thing can feel free to shake your heads. [...]
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