On Friday night, the five-man, living, breathing musical mash-up that is Brooklyn band Yeasayer came to town, and instead of playing to an audience of fashion-forward hippiesters at, say, the Echoplex, the group played to a mixed crowd of massive taxidermied animals and fashion-forward hippiesters at the Natural History Museum. I braved the wild scene on behalf of Spin.
Ira Wolf Tuton sports a beastly box fade. (Andrew Herrold)
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Tagged: Brooklyn indie, First Fridays, live music, Los Angeles, musk oxen, Natural History Museum, Odd Blood, Yeasayer
Two bits of exciting news from Los Angeles-area music-makers. The first pertains to Avi Buffalo, who I wrote about for the Weekly back in October (and whose first Sub Pop release made it into INCHES). The second comes from up-and-coming L.A. indie label IAMSOUND and involves a ton of great local artists including Nosaj Thing and Ryan Heffington’s We Are The World. Since I’m in a beastly mood, click the linx for the links.
Sub Pop Announces Details of Avi Buffalo LP
IAMSOUND Launches 7-inch Series Ft. Nosaj Thing, Fool's Gold, Edward Sharpe...
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Tagged: Actually, Avi Buffalo, Dead Man's Bones, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Fool's Gold, IAMSOUND, Imaad Wasif, IO Echo, Local Natives, Long Beach, Mae Shi, Moonrats, Nosaj Thing, Pocahaunted, psych-folk, Rainbow Arabia, Signals, Sub Pop, vinyl, We Are The World
The topsy-turvy World of Teh Internets has at last collided with the far more sensible, yet still totally futuristic, Land of Legendary Krautrock. Damo Suzuki, singer of the seminal ’70s German band Can, has had his name sullied by the dirt-lovin’ “celebrities” who populate YouTube — or shall we call it, DamoTube. Read about the whole weird thing here.
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Tagged: Can, Charles Trippy, Damo Suzuki, DamoTube, Fred, Internet Killed Television, Krautrock, music news, Shane Dawson, Teh Internets, The Fall, YouTube, YouTube hacked
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
Mia Doi Todd in her new Gondry-directed video
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
Durlin Lurt's 'Him Jenson'
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
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Tagged: Dublab, Los Angeles, Abe Vigoda, Vampire Weekend, PPM, Michna, Frosty, music news, Mia Doi Todd, Michel Gondry, GZA, Mr. Dibiase, Vivian Girls, Carlos Santana, Ghostly Int., keyboard funk, Money Mark, Salvador Santana, penis jokes, Rubik's Cube, Al Bundy, Atmosphere, Intuition, Nocando, Slug
My dear friend and colleague Colin Stutz, a.k.a. Jean Dont, has a damn good East Side punk-rock band called The Franks, which is celebrating the pending release of its second EP, Duh (the first was called Un), on Sunday at the Echo. Le Face also plays, and Part Time Punks presents. Go there.
Here’s the flyer. Vids after the jump.
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Tagged: badass, Colin Stutz, DIY, East Side, independent music, music videos, Part Time Punks, punk-rock, The Echo, The Franks
A short list of recommended L.A.-area shows for the coming week (plus videos for instant gratification). Click “details” for descriptions.
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Tagged: Daedelus, Dengue Fever, East Side, Echoplex, El Rey Theatre, Frosty, Haiti Relief, Hepcat, Joey Altruda’s Crucial Riddims, Jogger, live music, Los Angeles, Magic Bullets, Nosaj Thing, Still Life Still, The Lions, The Tuffingtons, Troubadour, Very Be Careful, West Hollywood, Wild Beasts
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
Durlin Lurt's 'Him Jenson'
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
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Tagged: Alpha Pup, ASKA, beat music, DAK, Dam-Funk, drugs, Durlin Lurt, Flea, free mp3s, funk, Jim Henson, Jody Watley, Leaving Records, Manimal Vinyl, matthewdavid, Moonrats, Mr. Dibiase, Nick Zinner, Nite Jewel, Raphael Saadiq, Red Sparowes, Sargent House, Shalamar, Slave, Soul Train, Spike Jonze, Steve Arrington, The Muppets, The Sads, Trip-Out Tuesday, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
A short list of recommended L.A.-area shows for the coming week (plus videos for instant gratification). Click “details” for descriptions.
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Tagged: beat music, Broken Social Scene, Chiddy Bang, Do Make Say Think, Happiness Project, live music, Los Angeles, Manimal Vinyl, Prefuse 73, Sunset Strip, The Gaslamp Killer, The Roxy, The Troubadour, VOICEsVOICEs, Wale, West Hollywood, Years
Four Tet, There Is Love In You (Domino)
Four Tet, 'There Is Love In You'
These songs make no bones about their rhythmic inspiration. Most are four-on-the-floor, built atop recurring samples, but only the single, “Love Cry,” outwardly indulges in Ibiza-flavored house. (Even then, it’s under a dark cloud of dubstep digitalia.)
Grade: A (via The A.V. Club)
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Tagged: alt-house, best 0f 2010, Domino, electronica, Four Tet, music crit, There Is Love In You
Beach House, Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Beach House, 'Teen Dream'
In 2008, Devotion removed some of the molasses, uncovering a handful of sing-along moments and a whole lot more fans, thus paving the way for Teen Dream’s Sub Pop release. Beach House is still a duo. That duo still lilts through its haze. That haze is still gorgeous as all get-out. So what’s changed?
Grade: A- (via The A.V. Club)
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Tagged: Beach House, dream-pop, music crit, Sub Pop, Teen Dream
