Tonight: BOMB ESTEREO at Amoeba Records - 7 pm

Bomba Estereo
Bomba Estéreo might seem like an obvious name for a band from war-torn Colombia, but the Bogatá group live up to their explosive moniker with an infectiously danceable sound that often expands into fairly trippy territory. Far from being a traditional cumbia band, Bomba Estéreo pump their new CD, Blow Up (Nacional Records), with spacy tracks like "Camino Evitar," which pulsates with shifting keyboard textures over an evocatively lonely indigenous flute. Singer Liliana "Li" Saumet chants rapid-fire Spanish (and occasionally English) lyrics on frenetic tunes like "Fuego" and "Cosita Rica," as Simón Mejía wraps her up in a tangle of guitars, bass and electronic loops. The duo’s interplay keeps the dance floor grooving, broken up by occasional interludes like the psychedelic instrumental "Palenke." Bomba Estéreo make their West Coast debut on this tour, with a free set tonight at 7 p.m. - Falling James, LA Weekly

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Tonight: KXLU and The Fold present MISSISSIPPI MAN / MOOSTACHE/ THE COLOR TURNING / SPIRIT VINE / THREADSPINNER @ Silverlake Lounge

MISSISSIPPI MAN
"American infused...earnest folk-pop" - Buzzbands LA

"The Snake Oil Salesman is solid barroom roots rock elevated by a few '60s Brit-psych curlicues. ...I don't know how old the fellows in the band are, but my impression is that they are fully talented if a bit green and capable of doing excellent things in the very near future" - Portland Mercury

MOOSTACHE
The OC Music Awards calls their debut album "a dynamic and deliciously raw variety of bluesy and folkish melodies," and OC Arts & Culture says, "the sky is the limit for these guys. Be sure and jump on the bandwagon before it's too late."

MISSISSIPPI MAN 11p
MOOSTACHE 9p
THE COLOR TURNING 10p
SPIRIT VINE 12a
THREADSPINNER 8p

Tonight: Monday Night Residency – THE HAPPY HOLLOWS / THE DRUMS / EVAN WAY / RANDOM PATTERNS @ Spaceland

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Just because we all love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs doesn’t mean we don’t have a place in our hearts for another one-girl, two-boy band with slightly skewed aesthetics and an organic, visceral sound. Case in point: Our simply ecstatic disposition regarding the news of the release of the first full-length effort of The Happy Hollows.

The Los Angeles noise-pop trio is fronted by wild woman Sarah Negahdari, who Wired Magazine called a “killer hybrid of Kim Deal, PJ Harvey and Emily Haines”. Titled Spells, this full-length effort comes fresh off the heels of 2008’s Imaginary EP and both were produced by David Newton, formerly of the Mighty Lemon Drops.

And while other female-led groups may have steered away from the noise-pop ferocity, Negahdari and company are going full force with an album chock full of effects, distortion and feedback, all built from the shredtastic and primal shows that the band, and especially Negahdari, put on. Despite their force, however, The Happy Hollows knows how to bring the love and show off some smiles with a side of snark and effervescent vocal work. – Consequence of Sound

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Random Patterns
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Watch: Beck Recruits Wilco, Feist, Jamie Lidell For Skip Spence "Record Club" Tribute

Record Club: Skip Spence "Little Hands" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

When not collaborating with Charlotte Gainsbourg on IRM, Beck continues adding covers collections to his Record Club. His (and MGMT and Devendra Banhart's) go at Songs Of Leonard Cohen included mixed results. We have higher hopes for his take on Skip Spence's gorgeous 1969 solo album Oar -- we've heard Hansen cover the Jefferson Airplane/Moby Grape player's "Halo Of Gold" in the past for More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander "Skip" Spence. It'll be interesting to see if he does "Halo" differently with Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lindell in tow. He starts these things with song one, though, so take a listen to "Little Hands" while you read Beck's thoughts on the session. (If you recall, Robert Plant did "Little Hands" on the comp, which came out in 1999, the year of Spence's death, by the by.) Also, as regular viewers of the Record Club may note from the above thumbnail, Beck's thankfully moved away from the heavy contrast art-school video approach this time.

This one took place last June when Wilco was in town for the release of their new eponymous album. They came by after a long day filming a TV appearance and still managed to put down 8 songs with us. Jamie Liddell was in the studio with me working on his new record. Leslie Feist happened to be in town editing her documentary and heard we were all getting together. Recording took place at Sunset Sound Studios in the room where the Stones did a lot of Exile On Main Street (and looking at the records on the walls it appeared that the Doobie Brothers recorded most of their output there too). Sitting in on drums, we had James Gadson, who's played on most of the Bill Withers records and on songs like "Express Yourself" and "I Will Survive." Jeff Tweedy's son Spencer played played additional drums. Also, Brian Lebarton, from the last two Record Club sessions is back. -Stereogum

Watch: MONSTERS OF FOLK 'Say Please' music video

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Create: "A compelling video for the song 'Dear God' by MONSTERS OF FOLK"

"We are looking for someone to create a compelling video for the song "Dear God". All you have to do is fill out the adjacent form, post the video to YouTube and tag it with the words 'Dear Folk Monster'. We are looking forward to seeing your visual interpretation of the song.

The winning video will be picked from a list of finalists and posted on the homepage of Monsters of Folk website as well as the website of Apple Quick Time and Death and Taxes magazine. The winner will also be rewarded $5,000 as well as a Gibson Acoustic signed by the band along with a copy of the new Final Cut Studio.

5 Runners Up get a signed copy of the vinyl album!

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Watch: COSIO 'Sweet Caroline' music video

Sweet Caroline

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Watch: WAIT.THINK.FAST 'Trouble' demo - live performance

Wait Think Fast is one of the current standouts in a burgeoning scene of ethnically and musically diverse Los Angeles-based bands... the quartet adds distinct flavor to its atmospheric, post-punk sound by using both Spanish and English for its bilingual lyrics... Haunting, tightly crafted, with thoughtful lyrics.. easily transcends any language barrier.

— NPR

"...Echo Park quartet Wait. Think. Fast. more than make up for their punctuational demands with generous melody and attentive songcraft. The songs are solid without being rigid, and pretty without being cloying. My fave is the breezy, LA-atmospheric "Cien Fuegos," on which vocalist/keyboardist Santillan floats seductive Spanish over a Beach Boys/Radiohead/Elliott Smith vibe. ..."

— LA Weekly

“Vuelve al Mar” (Origami) – How do you say “dreamy” in Spanish? This intoxicating bit of shimmering shadow-pop serves its metaphysical themes well. singer-keyboardist Jacqueline Santillan narrates plaintively as holy water turns black, frogs come out at midnight, souls return to the sea and bad luck stalks he who makes bad decisions. And that’s just in one song. A couple spins of this disc, produced by Matthew Beighley (the band’s guitarist-bassist), and you won’t even notice that it’s bilungual and you’re not.

— buzzbands.la

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Watch: PIXIES 'Here Come's Your Man' live performance

The reunited Pixes kicked off their nine city US tour -- the one where they play Doolittle cover to cover -- in Los Angeles earlier this week. The band's celebrating a lot, from the 20th anniversary of that classic LP to the release of the physically massive Minotaur boxed set (not so much a coffee table decoration as a coffee table), in various ways this week. You can download a free live EP culled from the band's show in Paris last month, or you could watch this clip of "Here Comes Your Man" for the Tonight Show audience. Frank Black spoke to Minotaur's size, but you get some real perspective when it still looks tremendous sitting under Conan's ample cranium. - Stereogum

Watch: Sigur Ros: Heima 'Olafsvik' music documentary

ONE WEEK ONLY — This 94-minute doc showing the Icelandic heroes playing venues huge and tiny is shown in its entirety. Director: Dean DeBlois.

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Listen: The Best Live Rock Record Ever?

The first time I saw Nirvana, at the club First Avenue in Minneapolis, I didn't really get it. At first. Then the band played "About a Girl," which sounded like something off Meet The Beatles — bent out of shape by punk-metal noise and a much darker take on gender relations than the young Lennon or McCartney had.

Released in 1989, Nirvana's Bleach (reissued this month) didn't make much of a splash at the time. But with hindsight, the album shows a band clearly hurtling toward greatness. A mere two years later, Nirvana headlined England's Reading Festival — and by then, the greatness was obvious.

When Cobain took the stage on Aug. 30, 1992, costumed in a hospital gown, his daughter, Frances Bean, had just been born a week prior, and he and his wife, Courtney Love, were in the midst of media firestorm surrounding their heroin use. At points during the Live at Reading DVD, and the slightly edited CD version, the singer sounds like an animal in a bear trap; at other times, you hear pain turned into the pure joy of sonic mayhem.

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Watch: LADY GAGA 'Bad Romance' music video

No really, you should watch this. I worked with Francis Lawrence a long time ago, and this kind of music video is seemingly a throwback to the good ol' (decadent) days...

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Watch: BISHOP ALLEN 'Click, Click, Click, Click' music video

Bishop Allen has broken through to a larger audience than any Brooklyn DIY power-pop duo could be expected to, first by landing the twinkly song “Click, Click, Click, Click” in a camera commercial, then by belting out the ferociously catchy “Middle Management” in the movie Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist. The band’s third LP, Grrr…, is designed to appeal to fans of those two semi-hits; it’s a record full of explosive percussion, scratchy guitars, and fragments of melody that bandleaders Justin Rice and Christian Rudder repeat until they wear down listeners’ resistance. Much of Grrr… ventures pretty far into the cutesy—as the album’s title suggests—but more often than not, Rice and Rudder’s strong rock-sense gives Bishop Allen’s songs enough kick to overcome their cloying elements. And the pair have a knack for super-charged ditties like “Oklahoma,” “Rooftop Brawl,” and “Cue The Elephants” that can make any given three minutes of the day feel a lot happier. -A.V. Club

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Read: Tough Questions for Devendra Banhart

Now-beardless freak folker drops f-bombs, disses the Star Wars prequels, prays for alien contact.


Born in Texas but raised in his mother's native Venezuela, Devendra Banhart has built an enviable career out of being an outsider. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter broke out in 2002 with a lo-fi album made up of largely folky ditties he left on people's answering machines, quickly amassing a passionate following. On his sixth album What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), he once again blends Latin Grooves with mellow California vibes -- just don't call it freak folk. "That's the most embarrassing term in the world," says Banhart, by phone from his L.A. home. "it's humiliating." SPIN reached the talkative Banhart as he took a break from designing ironic T-shirts. READ THE ARTICLE HERE

Exclusive First Listen: Norah Jones Hear 'The Fall' In Its Entirety

It's best to disregard much of the pre-release attention surrounding Norah Jones' new album, The Fall.

Yes, the album was recorded with a new band of well-known session musicians. Drummer Joey Waronker has worked with Beck and R.E.M. Guitarists Marc Ribot and Smokey Hormel have performed on records by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer. Keyboardist James Poyser has contributed to records by Erykah Badu, Al Green and Common, and is a member of The Roots' house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Legendary R&B drummer James Gadson — who's performed on studio sessions with Bill Withers, Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock — lends additional work.

Yes, she chose a new producer in Jacquire King, who'd previously worked with Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse and Tom Waits.

Yes, she enlisted new co-writers such as Ryan Adams and Okkervil River's Will Sheff, while continuing to work with her frequent co-conspirator, Jesse Harris.

The Fall isn't a major change for Norah Jones, so much as it represents an evolution toward a new sound altogether. Jones has gone on record as saying she wanted to revamp her music, but The Fall is by no means her "rock" album. Fans of her previous work won't be disappointed: She pushes toward her new direction gently and subtly rather than plowing into it.

On The Fall, Jones maintains her jazzy, sultry sound while pushing into more contemporary pop territory. "Chasing Pirates," "Even Though" and "It's Gonna Be" (the album's most rock-oriented song) are excellent examples of her new approach. But she doesn't abandon the old one completely: "Back to Manhattan" may be her loveliest song since "Come Away With Me," while "Man of the Hour" is set to a bluesy shuffle and "December" possesses a lullaby-like quality.

A warm, organic-sounding record, The Fall showcases Jones' musical depth in exciting and unexpected ways, suitable for old fans and newcomers alike. Please leave your opinions of the album in the comments section below. - WXPN 

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Watch: GOOD LISTENERS 'Don't Quit Your Daydream'

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This is the story of two life-long musicians (Good Listeners) who road trip through the heart of America recording their third album. Along the way they collaborate with an offbeat cast of strangers who force them to reconsider what it means to live a life dedicated to the art of music.



THE GOOD LISTENERS
"Imagine a lively puree of the Beatles, Beck, Radiohead and the Shins, mixed with generous dollops of exotic spices and organic sounds, and it approximates the style of The Good Listeners, a tender balance between radio-play accessibility and artistic abandon.

Contributors to the 'Devil Wears Prada' soundtrack, The Good Listeners tend to downplay their musicianship, identifying their respective band responsibilities with the vague label of "instruments" under their names. Their way of working in the studio is the recording equivalent of a collage. "We have kind of a weird style of production," Khyber said. "We call it the spin cycle. We basically hang on a chord and break it down almost like an animator would, and we add layers and layers of guitars and things on that single chord as it loops. We surprise ourselves with the compositing of it. It's like assembly art." MSNBC.com

Watch: MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON 'Buriedfed'

Buriedfed

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Here’s what we already know about Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Alright, alright, alright! So he’s got a bunch of names… enough with all the name jokes, already. And yeah, he did some drugs once. Here’s what you need to know about MBAR: First and most importantly, he rocks. Secondly and arguably of equal urgency, he’s playing all over New York before hitting the road with TV on the Radio this summer.

I first saw Miles a few weeks back when he opened for fellow Brooklynites, White Rabbits, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. As I walked past the merch-table, I caught a glimpse of white cotton tees that read MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON IS DEAD in black caps. “Oh, so morbid, so cool,” I grimaced. My shoes were giving me blisters, so I decided to jet the few blocks home and back in time to catch WR, clad in different shoes. I was halfway to the doors when an old friend stopped me and told me about “this awesome kid, Miles” who I apparently had to see. So I stayed.

Within the second song of his set, Miles played so hard he broke every string on his guitar. The damage left his hands bloody, but couldn’t wipe the crazed smile off of his face. “He must be wasted,” I thought. And while that was probably true, it soon became very clear that Miles’ smiles were very, very intentional as he wailed telling tunes of addiction, death and his own funeral. Unmistakably dark humored, earnest, and adored by an audience of friends and admirers who heckled him to play their favorite songs of his, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson live was worth walking home with blistered toes. – CMJ

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