Best Coast's Bobb Bruno & Bethany Cosentino Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Far too many exceptional shows last week including last night's NO CANCER! Benefit show with No Age , Vivian Girls , Best Coast , Graham Forest , Darker My Love and more. I do believe Bethany from Best Coast 's performance as one of their most entertaining yet. [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Tenacious D and Friends Partners In Health Haiti Relief Benefit With Frank Black, Russell Brand, Aimee Mann, James Mercer, Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Maya Rudolph, Jason Segel, Ben Stiller & Tig Notaro Tues Feb 2 | The Wiltern | Info HEADS UP Princeton w/ Castledoor & LANME (Los Angeles New Music Ensemble) @ Spaceland (February Mondays residency-free) Mon 2/22 Princeton w/ w/ Le Switch, Wade Ryff and [...]
Sur ce coup, je peux remercier la plus avisée de mes Twiends (Twitter + Friends), @Hedia , qui m'a involontairement mise sur la piste de ce morceau, via son dernier tweet au sujet de David Guetta (qui vient de donner une interview au webzine Idolator ). De la star des DJs actuels à Kelis , il n'y a qu'un pas, puisque ce dernier a produit le nouveau single de la sulfureuse pin-up du electro/R&B, "Acapella" . Premier titre de son nouveau projet "FleshTones" [...]
Today's 'News In Brief' is sponsored by really awful alarm clocks. ILL FIT have added The Last Dinosaur to their roster. Which is very exciting news because they're damn good. Their debut album, Hooray! For Happiness , comes out on the 19th of April (Dearstereofan Records). Midlake will be celebrating the release of "The Courage Of Others" this Monday with an exclusive in-store performance at Rough Trade East. The first 250 people [...]

I've always found it funny that the children of famous people seemingly always wind up being famous themselves. It's almost as if the ability to be a celebrity is written into our genetic code and predetermined before we ever get a chance to act on our behalf. Take the case of Charlotte Gainsbourg. Born to Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg was brought up as practically royalty in France and has been treated as such since, being allowed to release three albums with varying degrees of success and appearing in more then 35 movies. She was famous before she was [...]

I've always found it funny that the children of famous people seemingly always wind up being famous themselves. It's almost as if the ability to be a celebrity is written into our genetic code and predetermined before we ever get a chance to act on our behalf. Take the case of Charlotte Gainsbourg. Born to Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg was brought up as practically royalty in France and has been treated as such since, being allowed to release three albums with varying degrees of success and appearing in more then 35 movies. She was famous before she was [...]

It first went up a few weeks ago, but what was first another random,albeit interesting, teaser video, has now become a whole veritable cryptic series. I refused to write about it at the time, because it was way too obscure and... well, there was really little to write about. I don't know why, though, but for the last couple of hours, deeply bored, I tried to unravel this whole mystery. Oh, and what a mind fuck fest this whole thing turned out to become. So far there are three video, each unintuitively titled ( Prelude 699130082.451322 [...]

Citay Play the Echoplex on Thursday (with the Fruit Bats!) Monday 1/25/10 [Pick of the Night] The French Semester / Team Abraham / Le Switch / Wonderground @ The Echo (Free) – The French Semester are doing the free Monday night residency in January. Get there by 10 PM to see Le Switch (one of my favorite local bands). They're now a bit more rockin' as a quartet. [Recommended] Girls @ Detroit Bar ($12) – Great chance to [...]

[It ain't Radiohead — which raised over half a million dollars at its Haiti relief benefit on Sunday night at the Fonda — but here's tonight abbreviated show menu:] It'll be their last SoCal appearance before Coachella — San Francisco quartet Girls [pictured in August at the El Rey Theatre], still getting all kinds of love for their creatively titled debut "Album," play the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. ... Meanwhile, the January resident bands bid farewell in raucous fashion: Year Long Disaster's stint at Spaceland [...]

Fruit Bats - Photo by Annie Beedy Recommended Los Angeles Shows - January 25th – January 31st Monday, January 25th The Steelwells / Dusty Rhodes And The River Band @ Silverlake Lounge Sarah Silverman, Ed Helms and Aziz Ansari - Haiti Benefit @ Largo The French Semester / Team Abraham / Le Switch / Wonderground @ The Echo (Free) Tuesday, January 26th Jenny Lewis and Friends - Haiti Benefit @ Largo [...]

Sticky K vient de publier quelques remixes en attendant la sortie de son single "California". Ce sera sa deuxième release sur le prestigieux label de Switch, Dubsided. "California" Ep est composé de 4 morceaux et devrait sortir le 1er Fevrier sur Beatport mais est déjà disponible en support physique depuis moins d'un mois sur Juno Records . Un teaser est sur son myspace : son précieux synthé fait une nouvelle fois des ravages ! Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Sticky K Remix) ( Mediafire ) [...]
Très bon edit de Laidback à mettre sur une plage comme le DJ turc! > Switch - Grace (Laidback Luke Edit) BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! !!!!! Crédit Tof: ETRAFTA

It's been a busy week for Bionic woman Christina Aguilera. Not only did she wow the Golden Globes viewing audience enough to be named the Best Dressed of the event by MTV's Buzzworthy Blog , she also tossed her Hollywood Hills home back on the market. The asking price? A mere $6.25 million, says the Los Angeles Times . The paper reports that Xtina originally snatched up the property—which contains a 1,200-square-foot master bedroom suite, a screening room that seats 18, a gym, a [...]
Thanks to Roman Candles for inviting us to help with Saturday's show. The band made their debut with electricity which was radical; Les Blanks played a bunch of new songs off the new record they just finished up which was radical; Le Switch played probably the most enjoyable rock set we've ever heard them do which was radicalacious; and Merry Christmas finished off the night by punching everyone

Ed ecco che incominciano a spuntare i primi rumours non positivi sul nuovo ed attesissimo album di Christina Aguilera il quale, vi ricordiamo, dovrebbe portare il nome di " Bionic ". Il nuovo progetto discografico dell'ex-dirrty girl avrebbe dovuto vedere la luce a marzo (prima settimana del mese) ma adesso invece sembra che il tutto sia stato posticipato ad aprile. Non si conoscono i motivi precisi di tale slittamento nè se quanto riportato sia una notizia attendibile ma considerando che per il momento non si è parlato ancora con certezza del primo singolo (si pensa che [...]
ROMAN CANDLES + LES BLANKS + LE SWITCH + MERRY CHRISTMAS ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, AT L-KEG GALLERY, 311 GLENDALE BLVD, LOS ANGELES. 9PM / $5 / ALL-AGES. LKEGGALLERY.COM
ROMAN CANDLES + LES BLANKS + LE SWITCH + MERRY CHRISTMAS ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, AT L-KEG GALLERY, 311 GLENDALE BLVD, LOS ANGELES. 9PM / $5 / ALL-AGES. LKEGGALLERY.COM

[Birthday greetings this weekend to Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs. Here's an abbreviated roundup of shows — hit up You Set the Scene for a more comprehensive list ...] Tonight: Local blues-rockers Night Horse are starting the new year by getting to work on their sophomore album with producer Matt Bayles (who's worked with Mastodon, Isis and Pearl Jam), but the quintet is stepping out for a couple of shows this weekend. Tonight they headline Spaceland. ... Andy Clockwise [pictured] [...]
He aquí el playlist que los integrantes de Last Tide prepararon exclusivamente para Extended Play. Built to Spill - "Things Fall Apart". Nate: Personally, I think There is No Enemy is the best thing they've done since Keep It Like a Secret . This is my favorite track from it. Nate: Pienso que There Is No Enemy [...]

Lo bueno se hace esperar, nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena, más vale tarde que nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena y se hace esperar... Son una infinidad (o tres o cuatro) los refranes que hacen alusión al fenómeno de la demora. Lo nuestro no viene siendo puntualidad inglesa, nos regimos por el calendario Neoniziano (las semanas tienen, lunes y el fin de semana) y por eso llega a estas alturas este top. Nos ha costado mucho, arduas reuniones, decisiones a mano alzada, votaciones, trifulcas... Dos de nuestros hombres cayeron heridos, pero ya pueden contarle a [...]