Kevin Schneider, left, and Jonathan Meiberg, right, of ShearwaterLast Wednesday night at the Echo, I was fortunate to attend the kick-off performance of Shearwater’s current tour. Pitchfork has listed Shearwater’s current album Rook as one of the Most Overlooked Records of 2008, and that is a sad place to see this wonderful album, which [...]
Work suxIt’s finally Friday, and in the U.S. it’s the beginning of a three-day weekend too! The weekend is typically the last summer blow-out before school starts, and heralds the beginning of the fall/winter holiday season, although here in SoCal the hot, muggy weather is making brisk fall days seem far, far away.
Big congratulations [...]
I sincerely regret that we are not able to catch Matthew Sweet at the Echo in L.A. tonight. As you’ll see as soon as I get back home and process my photos, we saw Shearwater the night before, and unfortunately I don’t have either the stamina or the bucks to do two concerts in [...]
The Best Band on the Planet
You can argue with me about that title, but you aren’t going to change my mind. I go for months without listening to Radiohead because, frankly, like having dessert first, they spoil my appetite for anyone else. But then when I put one of their albums on, it’s [...]
08.19Happy August To Us!
Birthday! It’s our birthday month! Indie Mom and I traditionally take the entire month as our own (hey, nothing else is going on anyway) and plan some way to celebrate our nearly-same birthdays together. For the past several years, our fave band Radiohead has cooperated by scheduling a concert in our area [...]
The Brunettes onstage at the Wiltern Theater
Here is a concert review that kind of fell by the wayside. Indie Mom and I saw the the Brunettes from Aukland, New Zealand, when they opened for Beirut at the Wiltern Theater on May 30. They are quite a crowd onstage, with six or seven members, [...]
more cat pictures
While we currently only have plans to see two shows in September, there are quite a few shows coming up in the next month in the L.A. are that sound intriguing. A select few:
09.02.08 - Sons and Daughters at the Troubadour
09.05.08 & 09.06.08 - Nada Surf at the Troubadour
09.09.08 - Mogwai at [...]
Sean Atkins (front) with The Lost Sea
In May 2007 I posted a mix of songs (The Sea and the Sand), one of which was “Warmer Weather” by a young man named Sean Atkins, performing as I Am the Lost Sea. I said in that post that this demo song showed promise.
In the 14 months [...]
photo from official websiteRight after Joe Cocker, The Steve Miller Band took the stage at the Nokia Theatre. Having grown up with the music of Steve Miller almost perpetually playing in the background, I was pleased to discover that while the band members’ appearances had definitely changed, their voices still sounded amazing, and it [...]
My husband and I went to our first concert together, EVER, to see Joe Cocker on a double bill with The Steve Miller Band. I’ve been to a lot of concerts, mostly with Alt-gramma, but with friends and even by myself, but strangely enough, not with my husband (hereafter to be referred to as [...]