The name of KCRW's holiday benefit show posed the so-rhetorical-it's-silly question "Are Friends Eclectic? Gee, waddya think? You'd be hard-pressed to find the fare at Saturday's four-plus-hour concert in the same time zone, let alone on the same spot on your FM dial. While "Eclectic's" genial host, KCRW music director Jason Bentley, repeatedly marveled about how the evening was a celebration "of the power of music," it was more specifically about allowing a diverse array of musical voices into your conversation. At that, KCRW owns the franchise. Even though the electronica, R&B and other flavors that [...]
Mia Doi Todd's version of "Canto de Iemanjá," one of the original Afro-Sambas by the great Brazilian songwriters Vinícius de Moraes and Baden Powell, appears on her record "Cosmic Ocean Ship" and on the new "Red Hot + Rio2" compilation. Iemanjá is the Orisha or Goddess of the Ocean in the Yoruba, Candomble, and Santeria traditions. She represents divine consciousness, healing unconditional love, feminine creativity and the essence of motherhood. The video pays homage to the rituals that take place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil at the Praia de Iemanjá every year on February 2nd, her special saint's [...]
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KCRW's "Are Friends Eclectic?" holiday benefit, originally planned as a two-night event, will go off as a one-night affair featuring headliners Jimmy Cliff and Iron & Wine (pictured). Tickets for the show Dec. 3 at downtown's Orpheum Theatre start at $60. The rest of the formidable lineup lineup includes Other Lives, the Belle Brigade, Anna Calvi, the Secret Sisters, Mia Doi Todd and Zee Avi, along with promised "special guests." The scaling back of the event was perhaps a reflection of the lean economic times. "Early ticket sales for the first night were [...]
This song makes you feel like you're on holiday. It actually transported me to a happy past life as a Brazillian smallholder growing coffee and coconuts on the fringe of the Amazon rainforest. Bossa Nova accompaniment blooms forth over the course of the song, elevating Mia's to ever more seductive heighs. The song's tone matches the rest of her folksy acoustic album "Cosmic Ocean Ship". Recalling bygone eras of '60s lounge music, the rhythm section on this track transmutes this song into the ultimate in easy-listening, Mia Doi Todd - Paraty
LA's favorite public radio station, KCRW, is gifting SoCal with a set of Holiday Benefit shows at the intimate Orpheum Theatre to kick off the season.
Thundercat Thundercat, Mia Doi Todd, Hanni El Khatib, Swahili Blonde, Tom Brosseau, the Club Pacific Band, and DJs Dan Collins, Tom Child, and Andres Renteria at the L.A. RECORD x dublab stage at Abbot Kinney Festival on September 24, 2011. Photos by Lainna Fader. [View with PicLens]
Not a simple Sunday: ► The Hollywood Bowl and its indie rocking summer series comes to an end with TV on the Radio headlining. The night's chock full lineup of artists also includes Arctic Monkeys , Panda Bear , Warpaint and Smith Westerns . ► Folk singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow plays a second night at the Bootleg. William Elliot Whitmore co-headlines again, and L.A.'s John Gold returns as opening support. ► The 27th annual Abbot-Kinney Festival takes over Venice. The [...]
Photo by Grace Oh Some people seem transported from a parallel universe, sent here to make this world a little more magical or strange. Like Mia Doi Todd—she seems out of place standing on a street corner. She should be floating on a carpet, leaving a trail of flowers, or accompanied by a river that washes the city clean of all the creeps and malevolent vibes. Listening to her latest album, Cosmic Ocean Ship, a little bit of cosmic energy seems to seep in and that parallel universe becomes visible. Suddenly, you wish you [...]
Singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd's ninth album, Cosmic Ocean Ship, is a collection of pretty, ethereal pop-folk songs. Mia's unusual, delicate voice is reminiscent of classic folk singers like Judi Colllins, but her music comes from another world. You can download a free, legal mp3 of "Summer Lover" below... Mia Doi Todd - Summer Lover (mp3)* [...]
Tonight's things: ► White Arrows , recently off tour with Those Darlins and warming up for a date Saturday with Weezer (and a tour dates with the Naked and Famous), celebrate the release of their new 7-inch "Get Gone" at the Bootleg Theater, with Gangi and Electric Guest supporting. ► Deadmau5 kicks off a string of four nights at the Hollywood Palladium (only Sunday's show is not yet sold out). ► The Ettes headline the Echo behind the release of their fourth album "Wicked Will." That's the trio's new [...]
Mountains of midweek show options: ► Big day for L.A. legends the Go-Go's : This afternoon they'll be inducted into the Greek Theatre's Rock Walk, and then they will celebrate Belinda Carlisle's birthday. Then — and what better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of their album "The Beauty and the Beat" — they'll give a concert. ► Adele does her second L.A. makeup date (from shows she was forced to postpone in June), this one at the Palladium. ► L.A. quintet Races , their [...]
Mia Doi Todd é uma cantora americana que já tem 9 álbuns em seu currículo, sendo que o último é Cosmic Ocean Ship , lançado esse ano. Mia é também conhecida por sua participação no álbum Red Hot+Rio 2, uma coletênea de faixas onde vários artistas fazem versões de clássicos da Bossa Nova. Ela canta Um Girassol Da Cor Do Seu Cabelo , clássico do Clube da Esquina, juntamente com o sueco José González. O site Sounds And Colours tem uma entrevista interessante com Mia sobre seu conhecimento [...]
Live This Month: August 2011 (Podcast #254) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. For us, August hits a high point early, as August 6th we're throwing our annual fundraiser, Regional Bias , at the Verdi Club . As we discuss on the podcast, with four great local bands on the bill - Little Wings , Royal Baths [...]
King Tuff is in Detroit recording his new heavy metal record and also posting insanities. From the Glamour Shottes Tuffblog —that's Conspiracy of Owls' Bobby Harlow showing off the Mia Doi Todd poster in the new issue. Worlds collide ... with love!?
cover by ward robinson This wild little guy has been out for a second but we were so busy with shows , shows and shows that we didn't get a chance to make a huge deal about it! So behold—L.A. RECORD 104! First issue of our sixth year of printing with busting-through-the-mold L.A. transplant KING TUFF on the cover and a very provocative MIA DOI TODD on the poster! Must it be seen to be believed? Or must one first believe to see? Order a copy and all will be revealed [...]
Нет лучше повода напомнить о том, что сегодня выходит вторая часть легендарного сборника «Red Hot + Rio», чем видео с записью исполнения одной из лучших песен коллекции – «Um Girassol Da Cor Do Seu Cabelo», Mia Doi Todd и José González. Список участников не просто впечатляет — это John Legend, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, Caetano Veloso, Dirty Projectors, Seu Jorge, Back, José Gonzales, Beirut, of Montreal, Gogol Bordello, Madlib, Neon Indian, Cults и прекрасная St. Vincent. Композицию «львёнок», исполненную Beirut, можно послушать в прошлом посте . Если не хотите слушать интервью, просто пропустите первые полторы минуты.
New Music Releases - Tuesday, June 28, 2011: - 100 Monkeys - Liquid Zoo - Akron/Family - - Beyonce - 4 - Clams Casino - Rainforest EP - Com Truise - Galactic Melt - Curren$y - Weekend at Burnie's - Florence + The Machine - [...]
Sunday's shortlist: ► Peter Murphy hits SoCal behind his first solo album in seven years, "Ninth." Check out the hand-painted sets in his video for "I Spit Roses." Murphy plays the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa tonight, with a date Wednesday at the Troubadour in the offing. ► Big noise at the Wiltern tonight, where re-formed '90s stoner-rock dudes Sleep will be joined by by Harvey Milk and Premonition 13 , the new band from Scott "Wino" Weinrich (the Obsessed, Saint Vitus). ► Taking Back Sunday and Thursday rock the House [...]
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