Pee-wee Herman Starts His Residency at Club Nokia Mostly another good week to check out some local bands... Monday 1/11/10 [Pick of the Night] The Minor Canon @ Unknown Theatre – Two sets – 10 PM and 11:30 PM – One of my favorite local bands. [Recommended] The French Semester / Asbury / The Monolators / Manhattan Murder Mystery @ The Echo (Free) – The French Semester are doing the free Monday night residency [...]
Vampire Weekend Album Release Show At Henry Fonda Theatre Tues. Jan. 12th Happy Monday everyone! This first week back after the holidays certainly was a productive one! So many great shows so little time. I did manage to catch 60-Watt Kid and Glasser at Spaceland on Saturday. 60-Watt Kid BLEW MY FREAKIN MIND . Their lush spacey songs are will know doubt draw comparison [...]
Polaroids From the Web "Niente male" edition - Questa intervista di Jim O'Rourke al New York Times è davvero molto bella, e il passaggio in cui racconta di quando aspettava che la vicina uscisse a fare la spesa per registrare la parte di trombone del suo nuovo album The Visitor fa una gran tenerezza. - Per promuovere il suo ultimo romanzo, Juliet, Naked , Nick Hornby spiega come si usano gli mp3 e Hype Machine ai lettori del Guardian , e non so come [...]
After our fantastic showcase there, Cameo/Lovin' Cup Cafe has become a new favorite hang for some of the Stark staff. Cheap beer, good company and some excellent 'tots make for a good combo. So Sunday night we sauntered over to catch roommate Bella Watt's show, and were stopped in our tracks by Willy Gantrim , who was playing solo acoustic in the front of the cafe. He recalled a cross between Dylan , Deer Tick and Tallest Man on Earth - a potent and awesome combo. Rocking a pseudo-pompadour, Gantrim had a [...]
[mp3] Bella Watt: "Night of the Living Dead" We just wanted to give our good friends at Bella Watt a shout out for their Mercury Lounge debut tonight. The folks in Bella Watt have been touring NYC hard and are beginning to develop a solid fanbase. They will be playing mostly tunes from their sophomore LP The Mirror Test which we wrote about and is on sale now . Their sound draws from the darker side of the rock/electronic spectrum, highlighted by arpeggiated guitars, different time [...]
Dj Koze , al secolo Stefan Kozalla da Amburgo, ha una peculiarità innata che si puo' facilmente riscontrare nella sua opera omnia piuttosto che nella ridda di prezzolati colleghi che si affannano ad impilare singoli su singoli senza guizzi, ovvero la qualità limpida e sbarazzina di un innovatore col sorriso sulle labbra. In questa raccoltona di remixes targati Get Physical vengono ammonticchiati con sagacia alcuni suoi masterpieces a partire dall' Anno del Signore 2001: una vera e propria cronistoria in cui il Nostro decostruisce, ricampiona, impasta e dilata brani piu' che eterogenei tra di loro, dando [...]
Interesting shows around Los Angeles this week: Monday 4/6 The Bird and the Bee, Juliette Commagere @ Echoplex St. Vincent @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetary The Henry Clay People, Mike Watt and the Secondmen @ Spaceland The Script, Neon Trees @ The Troubadour Fool's Gold, Weave!, XEZ, NON+ @ The Echo Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, Thee Make Out Party, My Pet Saddle, Living Suns @ Silverlake Lounge Christopher Dallman, Jake Walden, Maryanne Marino @ Hotel Cafe Amie Moriello, [...]
Interesting Shows around Los Angeles: Monday 2/23 Le Switch, As Tall as Lions, Andy Clockwise, The Faraway Places @ Spaceland Free Moral Agents, Deep Sea Diver, Blank Blue @ Detroit Bar Uberzone, Simply Jeff, Eva Kim @ Nacional Local Natives, Love Grenades, The Union Line @ Silverlake Lounge The Holloys, The Underground Railroad to Candyland, Avi Buffalo, His Orchestra @ The Echo Alexis Gideon, Shelley Short, Mycroft Holmes, Paleo @ Pehrspace Joey Ryan @ Hotel Cafe Steel Panther @ Key Club [...]
Interesting shows around Los Angeles this week: Monday 1/12 Rocco DeLuca, Ida Maria, HoneyHoney, Jillian Hank Leigh @ Spaceland Katy Perry @ Hotel Cafe Robert Francis @ Echo Jim Merson's Monster Mash, Narwhalz, NASA Space Universe @ Pehrspace Olin and the Moon, My Imaginary Friends, Leslie and the Badgers, The Deserters @ Silverlake Lounge Tuesday 1/13 John Legend @ Gibson Amphitheatre Sara Lov, Learning Music, Modwheelmood @ Spaceland Ida Maria, Gliss @ [...]
Bella Watt - "Night of the Living Dead" - mp3 Before we get started, in the interest of full disclosure - Bella Watt have been long-time friends of Stark. We've cavorted with them at parties and their old drummer once knocked over our Christmas tree and passed out on our floor. Yet, our friendship does not take away from the epic scope and detail found within their second release, The Mirror Test . The band will celebrate the record with a party and show at Ace of Clubs tomorrow night. Lead vocalist/guitarist Itai [...]
Are you as hungover as we are? Are you suffering from voter withdraw? The celebration of Barack Hussein Obama's presidential victory was well deserved; beers were consumed, his speech absorbed and history was made. We are glad to see there is some good left in this nation of ours. This morning however, we find ourselves sympathizing with the Hessians at Trenton circa 1776 -- they were hungover from a premature Christmas celebration and as a result, George Washington plundered them. Well, we may not get plundered by Washington, but [...]
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Ny remix igen från Memory Tapes, denna gång på Phoenix sönderspelade dänga 1901. Kanske inte den bästa remixen han gjort och den är lite väl kort. [...]More about Phoenix
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