We are thrilled to offer an autographed copy of The Graduate’s debut album, Anhedonia. This CD is signed by the whole band and can be yours absolutely free.
All you have to do is comment on this post with your favorite album of 2007 (so far) and your email address (so I can contact you [...]
I had the opportunity to sit down with Corey Warning, lead singer of up and coming band The Graduate before their show at the Roxy in Los Angeles this past weekend. While The Graduate are admittedly the new kids on the block, the band put up a solid albeit short performance before the more [...]
I’m not like John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity: I don’t have walls lined with LPs, all cataloged by artist, genre, and whatever. Frankly, I couldn’t afford to have all the records I wanted. They take up a lot of room, and I much prefer CDs for storage efficiency. But I [...]
J. Tillman’s latest release Cancer and Delirium offers no big breakthroughs or surprises over last year’s Minor Works, which was my fourth favorite album of 2006. It does, however, continue in the same less-is-more tone that made the previous album such a standout, without any song seeming like a repeat or a another [...]
05.25OMG WTF TMBG
In 1987 or thereabouts, my sister and I were mezmerized by a black and white video on MTV that showed two spastic guys careening around, sometimes with huge pillars on their heads, not to mention the dancing heads of some old guy surrounding them. The guitar player looked like Buddy Holly, the other looked [...]
I promise we were not holding out on you - these songs recorded on May 17 at UCLA of the Ben Gibbard show were missing in action until this week. The sound is not always perfect but it is pretty good, there’s some crowd noise, sometimes you hear me squealing with pure happiness. [...]
The Muffs: Kim, Ronnie, and Roy
I have already mentioned my punk period and a couple of the bands (Homegrown, early Everclear) that I liked a lot from the early to mid 90’s. Perhaps my very favorites of that time are the Muffs from Los Angeles.
I first liked punk for its raw anger, but then [...]
05.21The Sea and the Sand
It’s a little bit early in the season for most North American readers to think about a beach vacation, but the pleasure of a seaside escape from the heat will come soon. Sample these five new artists’ take on today’s sea and beach theme.
The Flies: Walking On the SandBritish outfit the Flies created [...]
On Thursday, Johnathan Rice and David Bazan opened for Ben Gibbard at the lovely Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. Neither of us were familiar with Johnathan Rice, and I didn’t realize at first that David Bazan was the lead singer of Pedro the Lion, a band I like a lot [...]
05.18finally friday
What I wouldn’t give to work in a music store again. I worked in one in high school, and I loved it. I learned so much about different kinds of music, and I like to think I’d be more on the ball about new good music than I am now. However, I [...]