LA-ist interviews Colourmusic, currently on tour with British Sea Power. Catch them both at SXSW or check out their pages for other dates.
Check out LA Weekly’s list of shows you should see this weekend in the L.A. area.
The Yellow Stereo presents the Daily Graboid, filled with new music from Goldfrapp, Beach House and others, [...]
This was the first time I had been to Club Spaceland, located in the Silver Lake district of metro L.A., officially in Hollywood. What I like about it is that it is small. What I don’t like about it is the poor ventilation and the blue lighting back-lit with yellow. That just [...]
Mr. Folkie and I finally saw the movie Juno weekend before last. It is certainly very cute and a must-see, and now it has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. I do love little arthouse films like this, and I think it’s fantastic that the stuffy Oscars are finally getting around to giving them [...]
Good stuff! Wish I could say more.
The Shondes
The Red Sea is the self-released debut album of Brooklyn’s The Shondes. Their press blurb says: “Their songwriting fuses the various musical traditions of feminist punk, classical, Jewish, and queercore…” I don’t know what queercore is, but I can tell you that Elijah Oberman totally [...]
After getting a rather slow start to our concert-going schedule for 2008, alt-gramma and I are excited about some great shows coming up in March in the Los Angeles area. In fact, in a few cases there are bands we want to see live who are playing on the same day. If we [...]
The photo of Death Cab for Cutie as LEGOs that I used yesterday came from The Brothers Brick, where you can find a million things made of LEGOs, including the cover art for Radiohead’s In Rainbows album and more. My husband liked the F-18. Check it out.
Powerpopulist continues his showcase of SXSW artists.
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Death Cab for Cutie has released information about Narrow Stairs, their upcoming album which will be released on May 13. The first single will be “I Will Possess Your Heart” (see full tracklisting below). The album is rumored to be different from previous releases, so I guess we’ll have to wait for Coachella [...]
I was perusing the SXSW Band list a few days ago and stumbled upon Throw Me the Statue. I instantly liked the featured single, “About To Walk,” and set about to find more, and I’ve been listening to it obsessively ever since. Just yesterday, Secretly Candadian gave us the official release of Moonbeams, [...]
Last week, I found myself reading an article at the AV Club. I went on to read through the comments section which act as a kind of discussion board and contain a mish-mash of disses, jokes, pop culture references, and many extremely intelligent conversations on the actual article or diversions therefrom. While I [...]
Listening to Keep Your Eyes Ahead, the fourth album by Portland’s The Helio Sequence, my immediate first thought was, “God, this is beautiful!” I allowed myself to put away my analyzing and just enjoy it. When the last song ended, I thought, “Is that ALL???” and played it all the way through again. [...]
