Karen O Creates Supergroup For 'Wild Things' Score; The Dead Weather's Jack Lawrence Joins The List
Alright, so on Friday, we gave you a first listen of Karen O's score to "Where The Wild Things Are" by putting a close ear to a 'WTWTA' featurette that starred director Spike Jonze and author Maurice Sendak talking about the creativity behind the clip, and it obviously featured some of the original music written for the film. The music is "childlike" as she said it would be and quite wonderful actually; everything that we had hoped for.
Some of it was really uptempo too and even Arcade Fire-like which makes sense given the fact that original test-screenings for the film early last year featured a lot of AF music (/Film spotted the AF similarities when they saw footage of 'Wild Things' at Comic-Con this weekend too) - MORE AFTER THE JUMP
TINY VIPERS
LAZARUS / NIGHT CANOPY
DAMEON LEE
Echo Curio
Pretty much the biggest show (in my opinion) that we have ever had here, and we know the reason(s)why. TINY VIPERS, aka Jesy Fortino makes the biggest music around today, but presents it in possibly the smallest form possible, that of the solo singer/songwriter. Joining her is one of my favorite songwriters of the 2000s, Mr. Trevor Montgomery aka LAZARUS. Back from his time with Tarentel, to his incredible albums on Temporary Residence, LAZARUS has grown from weird folk artist to someone who channels not only the raw intensity of Springsteen’s Nebraska but also his E Street Shuffle jams, all in a quiet hush of intense gravity. NIGHT CANOPY and mr. DAMEON LEE have evidently joined up with the stunning BIG EAGLE, but tonight, they are going to go solo and show us what Los Angeles songwriting is all about (even though they are both transplants as well). - www.echocurio.com
60 Watt Kid make music for that fourth dimension, that realm of theoretical sonics and mad science. Sci-fi fascinations, pulsing rythyms, intertwining fingerpicking, blurbing analog synths, electronic tweaking, space machines, charisma, comedy, and alien visitations. . All this plus a spiritual evangelistic preacher that casts spells onto his audiences. - http://www.myspace.com/60wattkid
PIERRE DE REEDER (Rilo Kiley)
ASH REITER
THE LONG LOST
Bootleg Theater
ASH REITER 10p
PIERRE DE REEDER 9p (Rilo Kiley)
THE LONG LOST 11p
PIERRE DE REEDER
On the pop-folk ditty, de Reeder pairs acoustic plucks with a bright lead and lush harmonies on a timeless pop melody, instantly affirming his membership in the noteworthy-side-project club already frequented by his bandmates. Rich layers of "hey, hey, hey" and "ha, ha, ha" reach great heights and shimmer before the song's guitar solo playfully hijacks the middle section. By handling nearly all of the album's instrumentation, de Reeder proves why he's such an asset to Rilo, but by writing a song the caliber of "Never Thought," he successfully stands alone.
ASH REITER
“There's no denying Reiter's resemblance to Jolie Holland's breathy, angelic vocals, though Reiter leans more towards folk and indie pop despite her jazzy intonation. Reiter's warmth belies the melancholy of her songs, though her voice alights so gently over her troubles it's easy to be mesmerized by their beauty.” - Independent Weekly
LAST AMERICAN BUFFALO
THE MONTHLIES
RIO BRAVO
VENUS ILLUMINATO
Hell Ya Djs
Silverlake Lounge
LAST AMERICAN BUFFALO 11p
THE MONTHLIES 10p
RIO BRAVO 12a
VENUS ILLUMINATO 9p
Hell Ya Djs
LAST AMERICAN BUFFALO
Since forming in 2006, LA-based rock band Last American Buffalo has been recording their excellent EP "Bohemian Blues" and honing their live show in and around the city. Lead singer Kevin Tyler Zepeda-Compton has probably been working on his Civil War era steampunk handlebar mustache for about as long, but there’s much more to the band than elaborate facial hair. Their rootsy take on well crafted rock puts them in league with the Kinks and the Replacements, while a distinct grit and swagger aligns them with My Morning Jacket and Kings of Leon.
Andy Clockwise || Listen || Watch
Andy Clockwise might not be a household name where you live, but for me, he might as well be Bruce Springsteen. I’ve seen many incarnations of the Andy Band, as we call it, but his newest, tightest and most mature version is the finest. Andy is hard to describe. He’s a singer-songwriter from Australia with the musical ear and skill of Jeff Lynne and the heart and soul of the Boss himself. He’s a soft-spoken intellectual that puts everything he has into his music and his performance. The audience gets it, feels it and always responds.
There is nothing manufactured about Andy. You never ask yourself if you buy it because there’s nothing to buy; he’s not selling. He’s giving himself to the audience and the rest of his band mates. Local “hired-gun” and guitar maven Joshua Norton backs him well on the bass and keys while also serving as the glue that holds the many pieces together. – Lumino Magazine
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The Audreys || Listen
Carla Werner || Listen
Matt Ellis || Listen
Ebony Bones || Listen
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THE MEKONS
THE PULSARS / BOLLWEEVIL
Echo
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Thirty years after they formed in Leeds, and fifteen or so after most of them relocated to America, the Mekons return to England for their quietest and weirdest album since 1982’s The Mekons Story. Replete with chants, harmonicas, found percussion and an extra helping of haunted London holdout Tom Greenhalgh, Natural eschews the comforting competence of unplugged á la MTV. Instead it delivers the ramshackle, ritualistic, druids-at-Stonehenge mood that campfire crusties at U.K. festivals like Glastonbury aspire to. Convinced Armageddon is upon us, the Mekons are determined to get in some mournful Earth worship first, and for fans who feel the spirit, songs will emerge. Try the beyond-thematic “Dark Dark Dark,” the Iraq-meets-Palm Springs “Burning in the Desert Burning” or the reggaefied “Cockermouth,” in which Jon Langford’s distracted “I ramble” sinks into Sally Timms’ gentle “You have to believe this is the end.” Maybe it’s not the end. But it’s a taste. – Rolling Stone
Japanese Motors are the most exciting band to emerge from Orange County since the heyday of Social Distortion and TSOL. Hailing from Costa Mesa, the Japanese Motors are made up by main vocalist Alex Knost, guitarist Nolan Hall, bassist Daniel Michicoff, and drummer Andrew Atkinson, the band is known around Southern California for the insane, all-night blowouts they put on as much as for the driving, raucous garage pop they set the partying to.
Rather than fight the influence of their surroundings like so many of their So Cal contemporaries, Japanese Motors have channeled it into their music, making tunes every bit as sun-baked and laid-back as their coastal environs and rife with positive imagery. “Most bands from here are trying to sound like they’re from London or New York,” Nolan says. “We embrace where we’re from.”
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Thee Makeout Party
Sweaters || Listen
Goldiggers!
@ Echoplex
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Discoveries From The Pitchfork Music Festival
All Songs Considered - Each summer, the Pitchfork Music Festival draws thousands of fans to Chicago to hear three day's worth of performances, by more than 40 bands. It's a mix of some of the best new and largely unknown, independent bands of the year. On this episode of All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen talks with freelance reporter Jacob Ganz about some of the music Ganz discovered while covering this year's festival, which ended July 19. LISTEN AFTER THE JUMP
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Okay, I'm posting this for two reasons. #1 Ariana Huffingotn #2 I refuse to pick up dog shit.
ROBBIE FRAN!!!
Online Poll: Jon Stewart Is America's Most Trusted Newsman
Well, in a result that he will probably accept as downright apocalyptic for America, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has been selected, in an online poll conducted by Time Magazine, as America's Most Trusted Newscaster, post-Cronkite. Matched up against Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, Stewart prevailed with 44 percent of the vote. Now, if we're being honest, he probably managed to prevail as the winner precisely because he was the odd man out in a field of network news anchors. - Huffington Post READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP
That there is our good friend Horchata! Tell 'em 'Chata!!!
Cal State trustees approve 20% fee hike, faculty and staff furloughs
As several hundred students shouted "vote no" just outside the door, California State University trustees voted this afternoon to raise student fees by 20% for this fall and furlough all staff, including college presidents, two days a month. - READ THE ARTICLE AFTER THE JUMP
A Folk Rock Dream Team, The Tallest Man On Earth, A Tribute To George Harrison, More...
All Songs Considered, - They call themselves The Monsters Of Folk: Jim James, frontman for the band My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, and singer-guitarist M. Ward have joined together to form a kind of folk-rock dream team. The three have put together a new album of original work, with producer Mike Mogis at the helm. We've got a cut for you this week. Also on the show: Jim James has recorded a solo tribute album to George Harrison, under the name Yim Yames; Swedish singer Kristian Matsson, a.k.a. The Tallest Man On Earth; John Davis, formerly of the band Georgie James, has a new project called Title Tracks; Phil Elverum of The Microphones returns with a new band he's calling Mount Eerie; guitarist Bill Frisell composes new music for a series of rural photographs from the 1920s; and the sprawling, neo-psychedelic group Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. LISTEN TO ALL THE TRACKS AFTER THE JUMP
hahahahahaha!
Forget the Trash Bag, Bring a Towel
By MELENA RYZIK
The only thing cooler than a pool party on a summer night in New York City is a secret pool party.
And the only thing cooler than that, as a few enterprising developers recently discovered, is a secret pool party in a pool made out of a Dumpster on the banks of the Gowanus Canal in industrial Brooklyn.
On a rented lot that’s hidden from the street they have erected what they call a lo-fi urban country club: three connected pools housed in Dumpsters; a boccie court; some lounge chairs, grills and cabanas. On Saturday night just three dozen people got the nod to check it out, at an afterparty for the art journal Cabinet. “Please don’t forward,” the invitation read. READ THE ARTICLE AFTER THE JUMP
Look what originally linked me to the article (the source link is off of ONTD). I laughed out loud. Hard. People are again avoiding my office. Here it is: Source, with pretty typical video of hipsters swimming in fucking dumpsters.
Oberst, Jim James and M. Ward Form Monsters Of Folk Supergroup
When Jim James, M. Ward, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis hit the road together in 2004 under the banner “An Evening With: Bright Eyes, Jim James and M. Ward,” insiders referred to the tour as “Monsters of Folk.” The name stuck, and now the quartet have announced an official release under the moniker: their self-titled album is due September 22nd.
The My Morning Jacket, She & Him and Bright Eyes members carved out time in Malibu and Omaha studios and spent two years working sessions into their already packed schedules; Mogis produced the album. The band’s reps promise an LP of road-worn, sun-soaked fables with brilliant choruses and some electronic elements.
Oberst is also the subject of a profile in the new issue of Rolling Stone, in which Conor talks spirituality, Leonard Cohen and retiring the Bright Eyes moniker to hit the road with the Mystic Valley Band. As for Monsters of Folk. check out their free MP3 download here!Interesting look back at the Williams' legacy from another perspective. She's definitely gone in her own direction, a bit more singer-songwriter-y. Worth a listen:
Music In Her Blood:
Holly Williams
Weekend Edition Sunday - Holly Williams wasn't exactly born with a guitar in her hands, but she started writing songs at the age of 8. Given that she is the daughter of Hank Williams Jr. and the granddaughter of Hank Williams Sr., music and songwriting appear to be part of her DNA. In 2004, Holly Williams released her debut recording, The Ones We Never Knew. Now, she has a new CD, Here With Me. LISTEN TO MORE AFTER THE JUMP
The Mexican Institute Of Sound Returns
By Jason Beaubien
Morning Edition - The Mexico City-based Mexican Institute of Sound consists not of an "institute," or even a band. It's just one man, Camilo Lara. Lara amuses himself by using the name "Mexican Institute of Sound." In Spanish, the initials are almost the same as the Mexican Institute of Health — the most bureaucratic institution he could think of.
Lara's new album, Soy Sauce, is the talk of the alternative music scene in Mexico City. It pushes eclecticism to a new level by mixing mariachi with hip-hop, rock and electronica, while some songs feel reminiscent of '80s British New Wave. There's a love song, "Te Quiero Mucho," which disintegrates into the braying of barnyard animals. He has a Mexican pop star, Paty Cantu, who usually sings soulful love songs in Spanish, appearing in a hip-hop tune in English... MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Alison Mosshart
A New Venture with Jack White and The Dead Weather
Ten Minutes with Alison Mosshart
Fans of indie rock have long admired Alison Mosshart for her work as singer/guitarist in the hugely successful band, The Kills.
Her newest venture, with Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes) is a band called The Dead Weather and their first album, Horehound, debuts on Tueaday, July 14.
Despite Mosshart’s breakneck schedule, we caught a few minutes with the hard-rocking and extremely hard-working singer.
Sundancechannel.com: When did you first work with Jack White?
Alison Mosshart: Hmm… I first ever worked with him on the day after The Raconteurs and The Kills tour. I think it was October 2008. Yeah, we did a tour together and then I ended up jumping on their bus going back to Nashville and recording with Jack and Dean and LJ, um, for the first time ever, just kind of jammed some stuff and wrote some songs in a 10 hour period.
Sonic Youth In Concert
NPR.org, - After spending nearly 20 years delivering crunchy, underground guitar rock for a major label, Sonic Youth has returned to its indie roots for its 16th studio album, The Eternal. Out now on Matador Records, Sonic Youth's latest effort is among the band's finest, with a fuzzy, tightly orchestrated mix of psych-punk rock and noisy jams. The band showcased the album in a full concert, recorded live from Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club July 7. - LISTEN TO THE SHOW AFTER THE JUMP
The following read is whole heartedly dedicated to Mat Ward!
Does The Music You Listen To Reflect Your Intelligence?
By Carrie Brownstein
Have you heard of or read the book Spent, by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller? In it, Miller posits that "each of us is born with our own individual level of six big traits: intelligence, openness to new things, conscientiousness, agreeability, emotional stability and extroversion. These modules are built into humans and other animals (apparently squid can be shy)..."
According to Miller, "Driving an Acura, Infiniti, Subaru or Volkswagen is a sign of high intelligence. Driving a Cadillac, Chrysler, Ford or Hummer is a sign of low intelligence. Listening to Bjork is a sign of high intelligence, while listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd is a sign of low intelligence."
Naturally, it was that last tidbit that caught my eye.
Sure, most of us are music snobs, whether we want to admit it or not. And we are guilty of making snap judgments based on a Phish or Korn bumper sticker, an Evanescence or Fall Out Boy T-shirt, or, even worse, someone's glaring lack of musical knowledge (as in, "You've never heard of Black Flag?!"). But do we really think that country or Southern music fans are dumb, and that listeners of wackadoo Scandinavian music are smart? That seems like a stretch. - READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP
What?! It's an excuse to post a little ES&TMZ! I watched the 'Home' video done here as well, and yeah, it'll always be good, but my god, remember how they used to do it? Anyway, here's 40 Day Dream...
I was listening to this story over the weekend, really great perspective on the man's style and the times. Then, I looked up the page and found some additional footage that's a great compliment to the profile...
Johnny Cash's 'Big River'
By Mark O'Connor
Johnny Cash was a boyhood hero of mine. When I was 9 and 10 years old I would spend hours singing his songs and imitating the way he played the guitar. I even enlisted my mother to help me transcribe all the lyrics off of his albums. He sang about prisons, trains, about love lost and love found. One of my favorite songs of his is "Big River."
The rhythmic phrasing and vocal performance by Cash in "Big River" is remarkable; its energy and drive replaces any need for drums or percussion. Cash's own guitar strumming riff was quite memorable as well. He strummed up the neck with a dynamic crescendo. - LISTEN AFTER THE JUMP
La Santa Cecilia is a Los Angles based Latin group with a distinctly unique sound. Using traditional instruments in a non-traditional way, the band is able to create a sound that extends beyond the boundaries of the Latin genre. Each band member infuses his and her own musical influences into the group, making the music fun, danceable and romantic.
So yeah, just spent my lunch break listening to what I could find on this guy...out loud...people are avoiding my office...
All Things Considered - We recently launched a brand-new music series to kick off summer, called You Must Hear This. We've invited musicians from all genres — rock, country, jazz, hip-hop, classical, bluegrass — to share a piece of music that they love, that inspires them, that they listen to again and again. And we've asked them to tell us why.
BJORK: The first time I heard Omar Souleyman was on YouTube. He's from Syria. Some people call what he plays Syrian techno.
I think what's refreshing about Omar Souleyman is the party — it's fun. It's really alive and very urgent. And he's not above using synths, electronics, drum machines and YouTube. He's really eager to make something that's vibrant today.
I always heard interesting stories that he has one man called Mahmoud Harbi who is a longtime collaborator — he writes poems for Souleyman. When they are really warmed up and going for it at a good-times party, Harbi stands next to him on stage and chain-smokes. Then he will whisper poetry in his ear that he's writing at the moment. Omar will sing it immediately in the microphone and run around the room, exciting people there. I thought it was quite exciting for a poet and an emcee to work together.
Proposal Seeks to have Sunset Junction Festival Free for 3 Zip Codes
From LAist:
Unless Sunset Junction Festival organizers address local resident concerns and businesses, the festival is unlikely to be permitted by the city. So far, the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, who represents the area at a grassroots neighborhood level, has voted against the festival in its entirety. For their meeting tomorrow, the agenda (.pdf) lists has a motion for consideration that seeks to alleviate some of those concerns:
The SLNC has voted against the Sunset Junction Street Festival in its present form. This was done on behalf of the Silver Lake residents and businesses that endure hardships & extreme distress regarding parking, traffic, poor safety control and financial demands. I, Patricia McGrath therefore move that the SLNC ask that the following conditions be applied for 2009, if this festival is to be held this year: (1) All Silver Lake residents and their families in zip codes 90039, 90029 and 90026 be allowed entry for free; and (2) Separate beer gardens be designated for alcohol, so attending individuals and families can find and walk in alcohol-free environs.
Safe to say, that's a lot of people. Even if passed, it doesn't mean it becomes law, nor does it mean festival organizers have to make it so. Neighborhood Councils are only advisory to the City Council. But Councilmember Eric Garcetti has made it clear that the neighborhood council is playing an important and strong role in this case. - MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Diane Birch
In Concert
WXPN - Singer, songwriter and pianist Diane Birch sounds like a seasoned veteran, due in no small part to her extensive world travels as a child. But she's only just released her first album, Bible Belt, which skillfully blends soul, rock, jazz and pop. Hear Birch perform live in concert from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia. LISTEN AFTER THE JUMP
Get some jobs you yippieyipsters!
New Jason Schwartzman
Music Video for Coconut Records
Dirty Projectors: Balancing Head And Heart
By Will Hermes
It's been around 30 years — since the CBGB's era — since New York City has had a really vital rock scene. But they've sure got one now. Albums by Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear have already been flagged as two of this year's best. And I think another adventurous young band with Brooklyn roots, Dirty Projectors, has made a third.
An experimental rock group with a shifting lineup, led by recent Yale graduate David Longstreth, Dirty Projectors can be playfully high-concept; the band has made a song cycle whose storyline somehow involves Eagles singer Don Henley and a highly abstracted remake of the LP Rise Above by the '80s punk rockers in Black Flag. But Bitte Orca — the band's latest release, so named because Dirty Projectors liked the sound of it — is more straightforward. It focuses on the mixed male and female voices of the band members. While parts are influenced by modern R&B, the arrangements are far different. The single "Stillness Is the Move," for example, strikes me as a bit like Destiny's Child teaming up with Talking Heads.
Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing favorite instruments, guitars both found and invented. Concentrating on the artist’s musical rebellion, traveling with him to influential locations, provoking rare discussion as to how and why he writes and plays, this film lets you witness intimate moments and hear new music from each artist. The movie revolves around a day when Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge first met and sat down together to share their stories, teach and play.
so awesomely weird! gotta watch it all the way 'til the end!
Worth A Look:
UK Street Artist Banksy’s New Exhibition
by Paul Larn
Whether you love or hate his creations, it can’t be denied that UK-born artist Banksy is etching his name into a modern pop culture anti-hero.
His street art and graffiti creations have been seen all over the world, he has a highly successful alternative portfolio book, and he has made a considerable amount of money from his more consumable pieces - Brad Pitt reportedly has spent more than $2 million on his work in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and some of the early original pieces he bought are now thought to have doubled or even trebled in estimated value.
Banksy hit national headlines again today when a super-secret exhibition with brand new creations was unveiled at the City Museum and Art Gallery in Bristol. Check out some of the photos below for a look at the kind of work he has on display, and then head on over to the BBC for much more information and a video of some of the most elaborate work featured. - MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Theresa Andersson
One-Woman Wall Of Sound
By Rita Houston
Theresa Andersson is a one-woman band, and this was never more apparent than when she strolled into the WFUV studios with no band members, but two engineers — most solo artists don't travel with any. When I booked the interview back in the early part of this year, it was because I had seen her on YouTube where she had recorded a live version of her song "Na, Na, Na" in her kitchen. The video went viral and her kitchen became famous.
Andersson's new album, Hummingbird, Go! seemed to go back to the "wall of sound" era with a full band and all the trimmings, and yet here she was by herself, surrounded by drums, tons of floor pedals, slide steel guitar and a guitar on her back, and playing them all while singing. I thought I was good at multi-tasking, but this was a whole other level. - MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Taco Trucks: 2, Government: 0
The County tried to regulate the time a taco trucks could operate in one place and lost. On Friday, a similar, but lesser known Los Angeles city ordinance from 2006 was struck down by a judge. - MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Directors dig into Beat era
New films tackle Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs
By STEVE CHAGOLLAN
If a handful of filmmakers get their way, they'll soon convince audiences the real Birth of the Cool predated punk music, the Summer of Love or even Elvis. Yes, the Beats are making a comeback in a spate of movies that summon the spirits of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
These writers and other key figures of the Beat Generation play prominent roles in three upcoming movies: "Howl," a narrative film from documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ("The Times of Harvey Milk"); "Kill Your Darlings" from Christine Vachon's Killer Films; and what could turn out to be the ultimate road movie: the long-awaited adaptation of Kerouac's "On the Road," by Walter Salles and Jose Rivera, the director and screenwriter behind "The Motorcycle Diaries." - MORE AFTER THE JUMP
from Jason Bentley to Kevin Bronson to Ashley Jex...this band is getting the 'thumbs up', so it's no surprise that I share the sentiment. I first heard them on KCRW and immediately insisted on seeing them play a late show...well, pitchers of margaritas, a Lakers victory, a mexican village dance party, and a lost phone dressed the twarted attempt to catch them properly... so I'm left with only a sigh when I think about what we might have missed...
BAND OF SKULLS
Music Video for:
I Know What I Am
because Alex can only get weirder...
From Kevin at BUZZBANDS.LA:
Leave it to Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros to have big ambitions for the visual accompaniment to their forthcoming album, “Up From Below” (due July 14). This video for the L.A. ensemble’s “Desert Song,” directed by Benjamin Kutsko and Cory Marrero, is billed the first of 12 parts of a “feature-length movie musical.” That is frontman Alex Ebert’s father chanting is Monument Valley in the opening sequence. Heady stuff, and heady times for the band, which just signed a deal with Chrysalis and seems to have been everywhere lately. I liked their in-studio session last week at KCRW-FM. Upcoming: a show at the Hammer Museum’s “Also I Like to Rock” on July 23, and a date at the Manimal Vinyl Festival in Joshua Tree on Oct. 3.
Grizzly Bear:
Painstaking Pop Craft
All Things Considered - Singer-songwriter Brian Wilson called his compositions for the Beach Boys' album Smile "a teenage symphony to God."
Rolling Stone reviewer Christian Hoard had a similar feeling about Grizzly Bear's new song "Two Weeks": "The gorgeous choral harmonies sound like a teenage symphony to God, as conceived by Radiohead-loving postgrads."
The song is on Grizzly Bear's new album Veckatimest, named for an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Band members Edward Droste and Daniel Rossen discussed the album with host Jacki Lyden. - LISTEN TO THE STORY AFTER THE JUMP
Grizzly Bear
An In-Studio Performance
Recorded Live At WNYC
The Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear releases one of the year's most hotly anticipated albums next week, but fans can hear some of its songs sooner than that: On Thursday, May 21, the group performed a special acoustic set, including material from Veckatimest, when it opened WNYC's American Music Festival with a live in-studio broadcast and webcast. Grizzly Bear performed new songs in the studio, with host David Garland welcoming the band and asking its members about their new music. LISTEN TO THE SET AFTER THE JUMP.
Exclusive Listen: Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch
Hear The Year's Most Mysterious Album In Its Entirety, Weeks Before Its Release
When the first cryptic bits of news about Dark Night of the Soul began trickling in earlier this year, it all sounded too good to be true. Though the whole project was shrouded in mystery, it appeared that Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, two of the most inspired artists making music today, were collaborating on a new album. That alone was enough to get our geek gears spinning with excitement. But there was an unusual twist that few of us at NPR Music could make sense of: Director David Lynch was somehow involved. MORE AFTER THE JUMP
A Song That Gives You Chills, Dinosaur Jr., Black Moth Super Rainbow, More
All Songs Considered - Has there ever been a song that gives you chills down your spine every time you hear it? For Bob Boilen, it's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" written by Sandy Denny and performed by Fairport Convention. You can hear it on this edition of All Songs Considered and tell us the song that gives you chills — no matter what — on the blog. Also on the program: the sharp guitar playing of Sarah Siskind, adventures in sound with Black Moth Super Rainbow, the 12-string guitar explorations of James Blackshaw, the heavy emotions of Dinosaur Jr. and the electronic pop music of Passion Pit.
Hey! It's our friend Ashley!
Meet Ashley Jex: Founder of JAXART Records
If Wonder Woman had hung up her cape and chosen to give up her life of fighting crime and instead wanted to get into the local music scene, she may have asked some pointers from Ashley Jex. At the tender age of twenty five, Jex has created a local music empire. Not only has she launched a very influential record label, JAXART out of her living room, she still makes time for her music blog,Rock Insider, and her band The Monolators, and somehow her day job. She can do it all. LAist caught up with Jex in her industrial epicenter (aka living room) to ask her how the heck she manages to stay awake. Here is some of what was said...MORE AFTER THE JUMP
The video of the first single from NYLON Records' Plastiscines
It's just so, so, NYLON Records-y...
Sonic Youth Sneak Preview,
The Year's Best Jazz Record (So Far), More
The New York-based group Sonic Youth has been making some of the most inspired and influential rock music of the past quarter century. The band is about to release its 16th studio album and its first for the Matador record label. The Eternal won't be out until June 9, but you can hear an early cut on this edition of All Songs Considered. Also on the program: Pakistan-born singer Natasha Khan and her Bat For Lashes project; music from the grasslands of China and Mamer; French singer Marianne Dissard; Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke and the Londo-based jazz group Heliocentrics; and the Atlanta-based rock group Manchester Orchestra. Listen to the entire story! Just click on the image above!
Download this show in the All Songs Considered podcast.
Cool Kid's Gone Fishing mixtape is finally finished. Free download after the jump. The artist themselves are the ones who are giving out the mixtape download for free!
download here
DENGUE FEVER
Sleepwalking Through the Mekong follows Los Angeles based band Dengue Fever on their recent journey to Cambodia to perform 60s and 70s Cambodian rock n' roll in the country where it was created and very nearly destroyed. The odyssey is a homecoming for singer Chhom Nimol and a transformation for the rest of the band as they perform with master musicians and record new songs along the way.
Yeah, as many of you know from seeing them live, they're really THAT good! check out this footage from their current tour.
Here's some video of on of Soko's few L.A. performances:
Echo Park Named One of Top 10 Great Neighborhoods
And when you hear that, you might find yourself asking which Realtor came up with that ranking. Luckily, this time there is some creditability behind the designation: the American Planning Association. They "singled out Echo Park because of its breathtaking topography set in the hills above downtown, historic architecture, pedestrian-oriented streets and stairways, and engaged residents who, over the years, have gone to great lengths to protect and preserve their community," according to an APA release (add: their website has more info and history on why EP was chosen) .... more after you click on the image!
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THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
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