Bathroom Art Piece of The Day
McCain taps the 1984 Miss Alaska Runner-up
as vice president pick
Sen. John McCain today announced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate, calling her "the running mate who can best help me shake up Washington." Palin said, "To have been chosen brings a great challenge. I know that it will demand the best that I have to give and I promise nothing less."
Vote for Light FM to play Detour Festival!
Hey all,
So the LA Weekly/Detour Festival has chosen LIGHT FM to participate in their BYOB(Bring Your Own Band) contest! It's really really awesome that they chose us, but now the hard part is getting everyone I know to vote for us.The voting goes like this:
You can vote once a day from the same computer/ISP. So for example, if you had two email accounts, you would have to go to two different locations in order for both votes to count.
But honestly, I'd be happy if you just voted once a day until the contest ends in a few weeks.
The actual Detour Festival is on OCT 4 in Downtown LA. Lots of great bands will be playing(the Mars Volta, Datarock, Gogol Bordello), and we would be beyond ecstatic to share the stage with them.
It's gonna take a lot of votes in order for us to win, and I'm sure somebody in one of the bands works at some office with a hundred different ISP's, so there's a big chance this whole thing could be a pointless exercise and very much like a high school popularity contest, but you have no idea how much we would love to play the Detour Festival.
Sooo, go vote! And then put a little post-it note on your computer and vote again every morning.
I would do it for you. I swear.
Love - Kim
http://detour.laweekly.com/byob/byob.php
Podcast: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins live @ 9:30 Club (10.15.06)
From Web in Front:
Currently, Web in Front is up to its Sunset Junction-burned neck in notes and discs as we desperately try to complete our Best of 2008 List, Part II (WiF’s Part I is here, local artist’s picks are here), which will be released Monday. As we were doing so (and because pop music fandom typically dovetails into pop music dorkdom), we also began sketching out our prospective favorites to be released later this year. Very the near the top was Acid Tongue, the upcoming second solo album by Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis.
Her first solo LP, Rabbit Fur Coat, was most assuredly in our top ten list of 2006. A spare, rollicking affair, Rabbit Fur Coat sounded—with its rising waves of Watson Twins vocals and studio-honed musicality—like a lost 1960s country-pop gem, with the exception of Lewis’ twisted lyrics, which were imbued with a thoroughly modern worldview of post-you-know-what sorrow and paranoia. Beautiful, harrowing, and sometimes brutally funny, it’s an LP certainly in the running for our Top 20 of the Decade.
And, as we squirm in anticipation for our copy of Acid Tongue to arrive next week, we’re whiling away the time by listening to this excellent live show by Jenny and the Twins, recorded in 2006 by NPR in Washington D.C.; it’s a wildly electric show that features much of Rabbit Fur Coat as well as a few then-unreleased tunes, such as the soon-to-be-released title track to Lewis’ new album. Enjoy.
Join The Underground featuring L.A.'s best DJs spinning the tunes that get the floor shaking each and every Friday.
This week features lives acts including:
The Pacific, Love Grenades and My Machete
The Pacific will be debuting their new video, "Bad One Gets Away," directed by award winning director, Steve Lee.
Fridays Off the 405 :
Monsters Are Waiting
Justin Warfield & Adam 12
LA traffic might be bad enough to make you contemplate swapping your Mazda for a Metro pass, but tonight there's a good reason to take the long way home. Flavorpill's Fridays Off the 405 provides a salve for road rage in the form of Echo Park outfit Monsters Are Waiting. (Lead singer Annalee Fery's ethereal vocals, in particular, make everything seem right with the world.) Complementing MAW are dark DJ sets from Justin Warfield and Adam 12 of She Wants Revenge. If the music doesn't restore your faith in humanity, the Getty's portrait busts by Gian Lorenzo Bernini might; they're more beautiful than an uncongested LA freeway. – Chris Diken
¡¡¡ MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!
Featuring:
The Mae Shi
No Age
Negative Approach
Matt & Kim
Glass Candy
Two Gallants
Fucked Up
Japanther
Ladyhawk
David Vandervelde
The Strange Boys
Paint it Black
Trash Talk (JUST ADDED)
Mika Miko
Monotonix
Crystal Antlers
Past Lives
Mannequin Men
War Tapes
High Places
Rumpspringa
Best Fwends
Abe Vigoda
David Dondero
Preacher & the Knife
Triumph of Lethargy
Silverghost
Underground Railroad to Candy Land
Off With Their Heads
Nodzzzz
Tod Adrian Wisenbaker
Michael Reunion
Frank Fairfeild
Dimitri Coates of Burning Birdes
Graham Forest
Anavan
Halloween Swim Team
60 Watt Kid
Witch Hats
+ more
Tuesday 09.02.08: Aquarium Drunkard presents: CENTRO-MATIC / SLEEPERCAR (feat. Jim Ward of Sparta) / SOUTH SAN GABRIEL @ Spaceland
Centro-Matic [Listen]
With the release of Fort Recovery, Austin/Denton’s favorite sons celebrate a decade together, all the more remarkable when one considers how fresh Centro-matic still sounds…The band’s 10th full-length contains some of bandleader Will Johnson’s best songwriting. He and his compatriots, Matt Pence, Scott Danbom, and Mark Hedman, have grown into a band that chills you with washes of orchestrated chaos and seductive melodies, creating intense vistas, memorable pop hooks, and moments of rare intimacy…Ultimately what makes Fort Recovery a success is Centro-matic’s ability to make distinctively American music with uncommon fervor and without cliché. - Austin Chronicle
with:
Sleepercar (Jim Ward of Sparta) [Listen]
South San Gabriel [Listen]
SUBMIT YOUR PICTURES!!!
THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
DENGUE FEVER @ Viper Room
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