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Brooklyn based Neon Gold artist St. Lucia is performing a weekly residency every Tuesday at Pianos in N.Y.C. throughout the month of February with a culminating gig on Thursday, March 1st at Santos ... which will also feature a set from The Knocks! If you're in The Big City, get in the mix for one of these sets from the to-be-2012-noise-maker! Also, get in the mood with this Disco Arcade flip of the St. Lucia track "All Eyes On You", which is your new singalong for the rest of the day. [...]

By Erin Routson When I was sixteen, a boyfriend who was leaving for college made me a mix tape with Dashboard Confessional's "Age Six Racer" on it. His expression was earnest and correct: "Hey thanks, thanks for that summer" would echo in my head repeatedly when he moved away. That was what we used music for when we had just gotten our driver's licenses and fumbled around each other's bodies awkwardly any time we were alone. Instead of saying things out loud, or forming our own [...]

By Jon Herriot Whenever I listen to Teen Daze I always find myself grooving out a little bit. "Brooklyn Sunburn" starts out nice and slow, and builds into something funky. There is one continuous underlying beat but TD keeps us captured throughout the entire track with subtle changes and twists around every corner, including some haunting backing vocals from LA artist Steph Thompson . The new Teen Daze LP All of Us comes out on May 22nd, make sure you check it out! [...]

A good bit of natural uncertainty seems to surround new local trio Habitat, who for a time only played intermittently between each member's full-time band schedule and who have yet to formally record even one original song for public consumption. Through most interpretations, the band is nothing more than a side project: guitarist Andrew Landry and drummer Evan Cvitanovich, better known as noise punk duo High In One Eye, have noticeably been lending their talents as near-bit players in acts like Glish and the now-defunct Country Club. However, with Country Club's recent break-up freeing up the creative juices of singer [...]

By Tamara Tabet It's always such a pleasure to see a We Have Band show! The band was playing at "the 1143, a new and hype parisian venue for the launching party of an equally new and hype magazine named Plugged. We thus got to have a preview listening of several tracks from their upcoming album Ternion , and they just sound great! The band still has much energy to spare. Despite singer Dede's usual (but harmless) simpers, and Thomas's (her husband and [...]

Review by special guest correspondent Angeleeta Sosnowski You know a show will be good when you get a contact high in the parking lot. It will also have touches of irony that you'll love, like the line for the men's restroom being about 200 guys deep while the girls could walk and out in a matter of minutes. I must mention that I am a fan of Tool . However I have come in and out of their work over the years. I don't have a poster on my wall or their [...]

Though Alt-Country has exponentially grown in popularity over the last several decades, it has rarely seen artists capable of pushing its boundaries while remaining decidedly within them. Even the very avant leanings of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , generally regarded as the sub-genre's creative apex, has been accused of representing more the preternatural evolution and singular ingenuity of Jeff Tweedy and Co. than an artistic thrust typical of the grouping as a whole. This lack of a bona fide yet stereotypical success story has left a void that Cass McCombs - a nomadic folk, rock, punk hodgepodge of a [...]

By Bruce Rave Big Black Delta opened an encore , night two, performance for M83 at Club Nokia in Downtown LA this past Friday. For those unfamiliar with the B3SCI top 50 in 2011 track-makers, BBD is the current project of Mellowdrone's Jonathan Bates. It was great seeing him back, as I've long hoped for a new Mellowdrone project. If Mellowdrone had a certain Beck vibe, then Big Black Delta often reminds me of the darker synth music coming out of England in the late 80's. Still their music maintains a [...]

Fidlar is showing up on various lists of bands to watch for 2012, including the NME. LA Weekly has them as #1 on their Top Local Bands To Be Huge in 2012 . They've been smoking it at various live shows, including a sleepless run at CMJ 2011 in New York. They recently came to hang on my Moheak "Go Deep" show tracked at Wavaflow in Los Feliz. More on the live set and interview here or check it out below. - Bruce FIDLAR [...]

By Erin Routson Some music is undeniably written by women. Contend that if you will. Seeing Lightyear (aka Lauren Zettler) open for Mitten and Allison Weiss at Brooklyn's Glasslands merely hit the idea home. Sometimes there are places that only women can go. Taking the stage with her band, she launched into a set that ranged from the gentleness of lullabies and near-whisper sung lyrics to the punk vibes of yelping "Oh my god!" and being unable to contain her energy. Her songs are [...]

By Chris Gedos; Photos Jillian Prado Voxhaul Broadcast gave their LA legion plenty to shout about on Wednesday night, January 11th, as night #7 of Satellite Nights was a rousing success. It's quite a thank you from a venue to its patrons to host nine straight nights of free music! And I stayed away from the bar, so it really was a free night, even though all had fun whether they were imbibing or not! [...]

By Chris Gedos Testosterone was at max capax Tuesday night for Fidlar at The Smell, on Main St. between 2nd and 3rd in Downtown Los Angeles. Downtown LA, for those of you unfamiliar, is a sort of platform 9 ¾ where one can escape from the rigmarole Hollywood wheel of fortune. One can go to the Smell, soak up the grittiness and easily imagine themselves in Milwaukee, Cleveland, or Rochester, N.Y., discounting the January evening in the high-50's.The graffiti-laden walls and sawdust floors provide [...]

First post of the new year! Ok, ok so it's 2012 and you are probably tired of seeing best of lists already. Well we worked hard on this list and hope you dig it anyway. We have 3 of our correspondents, including myself, who are avid concert goers compile this list. And like most, we begin by struggling to come up with 10 then by the end actually have way more and struggle to narrow it down to only 10! It was so hard to choose, between us this year we have seen Blink-182 , Cloud Nothings [...]

Review, Photos, and video by Mark Ambrose What's better than spending time with family, friends, and loved ones over the holidays and drinking eggnog next to a warm fire? Rockin' out the eve of Christmas Eve at a great music venue in Dallas, that's what! Production company, Escaping The Ordinary , led by Ty Griffin , brought Fair To Midland and Dead Letter Circus to Granada Theater fans this weekend [...]

Pennsylvania's Asher Roth took over Brooklyn Bowl last night in NY. The celebration was in honor of the release of his album Pabst & Jazz , which you can download for free from his official site . This dude can really rap. Lyrically, well it isn't about loving college anymore (although you cannot help but love that song). Jazz artist, Jonathan Batiste opened the show with the Stay Human Band. He recently released a new CD/DVD "MY N.Y.". They [...]

Review, Photos, and Video Courtesy of Katie Covens The world felt vacuous on Sunday morning. The air was strangely silent and stagnant. It was impossible to ignore the contrast between the halcyon morning and the preceding sonorous night. Beats were pulsing through my mind all throughout the following day. I've never had a wild music-filled night in downtown Dallas, quite like this one in November. The Saturday night was seemingly infinite, with the additional hour of daylight savings. It was a common question, amongst party-goers, whether it was [...]

Contributed by Erin Routson Out of the week-long residency the National spent at the Beacon, this was the show I most wanted to be present for, in order to see Sharon Van Etten. (And, crossing my fingers that they'd bring her out to do "Think You Can Wait.") Earlier in the day I tweeted about the over/under on me crying during the show, knowing that I was going to see two acts I really [...]

Review by special guest correspondent Kristen Reed Last week, North Texas music fans showed up in droves to see My Morning Jacket , which consists of Jim James (vocals/guitar), Tom Blankenship (bass), Patrick Hallahan (drums), Carl Broemel (guitar/saxophone/vocals), and Bo Koster (keyboards/ vocals), perform at the Verizon Wireless Theater. As someone who had never seen the Louisville, Kentucky musicians perform live, I did not know what to expect from their live show, but I was pleasantly surprised by their set. My Morning Jacket began their set with a slow build up [...]

Contributed by Chris Gedos Considering there's more bands than people these days, I'm afraid to say that I'd never listened to The Sea and Cake if only because I wasn't quite sure what to make of their name. Band names with lowercase articles are highly uncommon in today's indiedom. I still think The Sea and Cake sounds more like a collection of short stories by the most recent fiction MFA from Hunter College, but presented with the opportunity to see the Chicago collective at [...]

Last week Re:Mix Labs took on Los Angeles at 401 S Main in Downtown. The City of Angels was the final stop for Re:Mix , which started at CMJ in NYC and made pit stops in Miami, Chicago and Las Vegas, of the Hyundai Veloster-sponsored multimedia event. Check out a recap of the week's happenings below as well as earlier coverage during the event here . Exhibiting at the LA Artwalk on Thursday was Robert Reynolds, whose gallery is located at 4th and Spring, [...]