
Here's your Monday night full of free (depending on where you roam): ► Australian multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd headlines the Fonda Theatre where he'll be joined by Yeshe . ► Kiwis Opossom [ check out "Blue Meanies" ] and Ghost Wave are on deck for It’s a School Night at Bardot. DJ sets by MRTN and Vitalic Noise DJs. ► Bass guitar extraordinaire Duff McKagan takes on the Viper Room. ► And Bootleg Bar offers one of many free residencies tonight. Make sure to catch [...]

[Happy July. In some parts of the world, today is known as Canada Day. In other parts, it's Sufjan Stevens' birthday.] Holiday weekend starts here: ► Oklahoma's Other Lives , whose album "Tamer Animals" should be part of your lives by now, visit the Satellite for the second time in the past six week. This time they're supporting the Rosebuds , whose fifth album "Loud Planes Fly Low" just came out on Merge. ► [...]

Discover America ( Chris Staples ) has a new digital single Devil In the Woods available on Amazon.com and itunes Posted in 2010, chris staples, discover america Tagged: devil in the woods, music news

[Good morning. I will say one thing about "The Essential Michael Jackson" collection — it's an excellent way to drown out the drone of the helicopters covering today's Michael Jackson Memorial.] Kitty, Daisy & Lewis [pictured] are rockabilly throwbacks who play the kind of music I imagine the nursing staff must have been listening to about the time I was born (that was the 1950s, kids). The sibling band, ages 16, 19 and 21, has charmed the dickens out of their native London, has an album coming [...]
Redding, Ca Circa Early 90's Redding, CA's Case For Radio formed as a group of high school friends with probably nothing better to do than to make some noise. Having grown up in Redding, California myself, I can vouch for the dull expansive vortex that is that town. Case For Radio was alive as long as the kids were still in high school and then morphed into a power trio similar to Velvet Crush/Nada Surf power pop with a shoegaze nuance. Kelly Bauman whom now lives in Portland, Oregon and recently put out an [...]