Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]
No Age accuse the brothers Followill of ripping off their logo design.
LA punks No Age posted the above image on their blog today, posing the question, look familiar ? Spin reports that it's not as egregious as it seems - the shirt does not appear in the Kings' online store - although Spin 's Google search found it on Amazon's UK site. So, there's something to this. Surely they're not the first punks to be ripped off, but where would you put this exactly? In the days of merch overload No Age's shirt is relatively iconic. No word on [...]
THE SMELL'S 14TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND WITH NO AGE, HELLER KELLER, PALM READER, TRAPS PS, PETER PANTS, AND YOU ME & US ON FRIDAY JAN. 6TH AT THE SMELL, 247 SOUTH MAIN STREET, LOS ANGELES. 8:00PM/ FREE/ ALL AGES
Your slammin' busy Friday: ► First Fridays at the Natural History Museum kicks off its 2012 series by welcoming Mariachi El Bronx , along El Haru Kuroi. ► No Age heads up a huge lineup at the Smell , which kicks off its weekend-long 14th anniversary celebration. s celebrates its 14th anniversary. ► Excellent up-and-coming folk-rock band at the Hotel Cafe: Denver-based the Lumineers , whose debut album is due in March, plays on a bill that also features Fascinoma and Sierra Swan. Recommended if you [...]
The Smell's 14th Anniversary weekend lineups look pretty solid, especially Saturday. Friday...
We are kicking off the GIMME TINNITUS best of 2011 coverage with our 19 favorite music videos from this year. Watch + Listen. Streamable: FT2 Theme (vimeo) by Phil Manley Streamable: Echo Chamber (youtube) by Parts & Labor Streamable: Slime (vimeo) by Sleeping Bag [...]
No Age is offering fans a rare history lesson. Before forming their now acclaimed noise rock outfit, Randy Randall and Dean Spunt were members of this Los Angles punk trio, Wives. A previously unheard effort, The Roy Tapes is a means of shared celebration as Spunt's label, Post Present Medium celebrates 10 years. Before departing on what would be Wives' last tour Best Coast drummer, Bobb Bruno helped the band to record this final material. While No Age continues to exhibit more control over their obviously punk influenced roots, Wives can't say the same. The Roy Tapes is [...]
The ambitious "Beat LA" compilation released this year by Narnack Records and Greatminds Records not only benefits a great cause — proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders for their continuing efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti — the project connects the dots between two eras of Los Angeles music. The covers collection features bands from L.A. present revisiting songs from L.A.'s rich lineage. Tracks from the Gun Club, the Plimsouls, X, the Minutemen, the Doors, the Germs and Dream Syndicate are all represented here, with contemporaries No Age (covering the Urinals) , Imaad Wasif, Josh Klinghoffer, Boom Bip and [...]
Beat L.A. captures the spirit of multiple generations of Los Angeles underground rockers, back when indie still meant unknown, overlooked, loud, angry, and awesome. Not content to stick to a specific decade or style, Beat L.A. edges on all the minimalist hard rock genres, from '60s-styled garage rock to punk, new wave to no wave noise. But here's the catch: The entire album is composed of cover versions by today's L.A. indie scene. It's a bold experiment, linking the present-day indie sound to the indie worlds of 20, 30, and 40 years [...]
Eyes closed, head slightly bowed, hands clasped, Bob Mould stood silently for better than a minute at the conclusion of Monday night's tribute concert at Disney Hall, letting the crowd's warm ovation wash over him. The 51-year-old singer, guitarist and author had to be thinking something along the lines of: What a long, strange trip it's been. Punk hero in the 1980s. Radio guitar god in the 1990s. Closeted gay man for most of both. Respected solo artist. Dabbler in electronica. Scriptwriter for professional wrestling (fer chrissakes) after that. And now, enjoying a career [...]
If Hüsker Dü or Sugar were before your time, do yourself a favor and dig up their old catalogs. Both venerable bands were fronted by Bob Mould, and an all-star assortment of music luminaries assembled to celebrate the music and legacy of Mould's vast catalog at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Britt Daniel, Ryan Adams, Dave Grohl, No Age, Grant Lee Phillips, Margaret Cho, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady all paid tribute by running through classic Hüsker Dü and Sugar songs. Mould is touring in support of his book See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage [...]
Photo by Heather Kaplan Last night at Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman Bob Mould was honored with a star-studded tribute concert . Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams, Spoon's Britt Daniel, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, and No Age were among the acts who took part, performing songs from Mould's entire discography, including Hüsker Dü, Sugar, and Mould's own solo material. According to inlandSoCal.com , the performance featured covers of Mould's "Black Sheets of Rain" and "Heartbreak A Stranger" by Adams; Sugar's "A Good Idea" by Finn; Sugar's [...]
► Bob Mould , whose three decades in rock includes seminal bands such as Hüsker Dü and Sugar and an estimable catalog of solo work, is feted in the program "See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould" at Disney Hall. The program, hosted by veteran DJ Matt Pinfield, features performances by Dave Grohl, Britt Daniel, Ryan Adams, No Age, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of the Hold Steady, Grant-Lee Phillips, Margaret Cho and Best Coast. And Mould himself will perform. ► The Cure kicks off three nights of its [...]
Plenty of Sunday fun: ► If it's the first Sunday of the month, then it must be time for the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite . Hosted by Daniel Ahearn and the Jones (and co-presented by Buzz Bands LA), tonight's installment is headlined by Liz Clark , the Denver-born singer-songwriter cultivated her craft in the New York scene before settling in Ireland. Her fourth album "Lonely and the Moose" is due early next year. Above, the video for "Who's Your Angel?" And below: Check out and download "Feet on the Ground" [...]
Hailing from Chicago, Santah put catchy, no-frills alternative rock back on the main stage. The five-piece fuse the ambition of all members into a cohesive and successful album, White Noise Bed – a group courtesy of GroopEase, who recently offered their full-length for $3 – a $6 discount. Fans of The Walkmen, The Veils, and [...]
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