I’ll be heading to the Yost Theatre in Santa Ana tonight to check out the inaugural KUCI Nights event featuring performances from The Living Suns, Castledoor, The Shys, Death To Anders, and Moostache.I’m most eager to check out The Living Suns, who made a pretty decent album (would have been better as an EP), and [...]
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Inaugural KUCI Nights event at the Yost Theatre in Santa Ana tonight; Castledoor & Living Suns + more
Hecuba record release show tonight at The Echo
Paradise, the new album from Los Angeles’ Hecuba is some way out there next level shit. I’m not going to claim that I totally get all of it, and to be honest, some of it flies right over my head, but that hasn’t stopped me from being utterly intrigued by Isabelle Albuquerque and Jon Beasley. [...]
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kkmidnite is serving it up on CHAKANAWE
So Midnite doesn’t get on here and post too much, but everyone should “run” over to where he spends most of his time, Chakanawe. His 420 marijuana art themed rant is all time, plus his thrift record store day post is right on, and then there are the Royal Trux treasures that he is finding [...]
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Evan Voytas is Getting Higher; playing Echo Curio Friday, April 24th
After releasing the amazing single, “I Live This Life Here For You”, via RCRD LBL back in February, Evan Voytas has returned with a new single and news that he will release a new EP, titled The New Dynamic Sound of Evan Voytas on May 5th via the downtown Los Angeles label, PolyMono Op.“Getting Higher”, [...]
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Pillow Queens tonight at Echo Curio with Vibes
Austin’s Pillow Queens aren’t giving it up that easily, wanting you to believe they were assembled via the Internet to become a “reality band”, though their very real lofi slightly psychedelic Black Keys meets the Black Lips sound puts them in good company with fellow Austinites, Strange Boys and Harlem, and is only a matter [...]
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Fingerprints announces Great Northern in-store on April 24 and Black Lips acoustic in-store on May 2
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Record Store Day may be over, but the folks at Fingerprints are continuing - as they always have - to host terrific in-store events, and the next two are no exception. Fingerprints announced via their newsletter (sign up here) that Great Northern will be dropping by the store this Friday, April 24th at 7pm and [...]
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Holy Fuck announce US tour with Crocodiles; Troubadour on June 6th
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This May, Toronto’s Holy Fuck hit the road on a tour that will keep them in the States through mid June. Along for the ride will be San Diego’s Crocodiles, who will be supporting their Fat Possum debut, Summer Of Hate.Holy Fuck/Crocodiles Spring ‘09 US Tour:5/21 Boston, MA - Middle East 5/22 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall [...]
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Kylesa at the Echoplex tonight
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Kylesa are heavy as shit and their new album, Static Tensions, can be described using cliche metal verbs like crushing and pummeling, but what you might not expect is that it is also down right catchy. I haven’t been there since the beginning (2001), it was only a couple years ago that I got [...]
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Astronautalis at UCI Phoenix Food Court tonight for Acrobatics Everyday
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With the rise of dickheads bands like Limp Bizkit, Korn, POD and the like in the late 90’s, the use of the words rap and rock sandwiched together will forever induce a cringe, regardless of the efforts of Minneapolis’ P.O.S. and Seattle’s Astronautalis, to right the past wrongs of the “genre”. Astronatalis, AKA Andy Bothwell, [...]
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Happy Easter
Bobb Bruno
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Fingerprints announces Record Store Day in-store performances from Crystal Antlers, The Bird and the Bee and Matt Costa on Saturday, April 18th
via Fingerprints newsletter:Guest List (required for entry) for all the following in-store performances is now open. No purchase required, limit of 2 lists and one guest per person (but Fingerprints will open them wider next week, if any still have room.) Call Fingerprints at (562) 433-4996 asap to be added to the guest list.Noon - [...]
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Marissa Nadler kicks off tour tonight at Hotel Cafe; new album Little Hells out now
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I still stand by my earlier statement that Marissa Nadler’s music makes for a great come down. With her new album, Little Hells (out now on Kemado), Nadler has created another solid piece of work that completely envelops and transports the listener to a wholly magical place. The place where Nadler takes you is not [...]
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Big Business announce US tour with bros Tweak Bird; stream new album, Mind The Drift
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Los Angeles heavy-hitters Big Business have announced the release date for their new full length, Mind The Drift, out May 12th 2009 on Hydra Head Records, and are streaming it now in its entirety and complete with band commentary here.In celebration, the band have announced a massive US tour with their bros Tweak Bird, who [...]
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Long Legged Woman at The Smell tonight with Dark Meat
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I wasn’t able to catch these San Francisco by-the-way-of Athens, GA psychedelic scuzz freaks last week in Austin for SXSW, and damn, if I weren’t home nursing a nasty bug I picked up down there, I’d be at The Smell tonight for Long Legged Woman’s show with Dark Meat. I mean if the SFBG’s description [...]
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one - more - time - WILDILDLIFE at Echo Curio 3 / 25
RAD BAND Wildildlife is playing in LA again this week! They played a show at Relax Bar, which is bullshit, on their way to SXSW from Seattle so I give an extra “good lookin’ out” to anyone with the good sense to check them out this Wednesday at Echo Curio 1519 Sunset Blvd. March 25 [...]
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Flower Travellin’ Band U.S.A.
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I first became aware of Flower Travellin’ Band as the dudes riding motorcycles naked on the cover of Julian Cope’s book “Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock ‘n’ Roll”. As striking as this image is, what really hooked me on this band was hearing their masterpiece album,
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Download the entire Mack Winston and the Reflections EP for FREE
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Artist:Mack Winston and the Reflections
I’ve been rocking this EP for quite a while now, and I am so glad that these dudes have decided to give this bad boy away since there was no place to buy it. Go to mackwinston.com and click into the music section to download all five songs. This is so worth your time, believe [...]
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LA Record - Primal Scream Tix giveaway / new 12″ single
Thanks to LA Record for offering Primal Scream fans a chance to see their LA show for free…click here… PRIMAL SCREAM VIP TICKET CONTEST
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RAD BAND ALERT - WILDILDLIFE
Here’s the thing with Wildildlife (pronounced wild-life)… they are easily one of my favorite underground bands at the moment… and although they are a young band, they have already released a shit ton of music (debut album Six is over 80 minutes long); I never really “got” them until I saw them live, which in [...]
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Sleepy Sun at The Echo this Tuesday; Interview with Brett Constantino
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Well this was supposed to run in the new issue of LA Record, but got bumped when they ran out space covering the Los Angeles migration to Austin, TX next week for SXSW. Sleepy Sun who I have been a loud supporter of since first coming across the band last summer, are about to embark [...]
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