The lineup for this bill is interesting. Seamus Simpson used to play in Radars to the Sky, and now fronts Smokers in Love. Death to Anders is fronted by Rob Danson and used to feature Pete DiBasio… now both play in Radars to the Sky. A bit incestual? Maybe, but that usually makes for a personal, intimate performance.
Crashing to Earth from a power pop planet far, far away is Alright Alright,a hook-fueled super sextet from Los Angeles who have dropped one of the surprise delights of 2010.
Like a bloody wife in an abusive marriage, I just can’t quit The =W=. Rationally, I know they will only beat me to a pulp if I go back. But that’s alright, I like the way it hurts.
Twilight Sleep are filling the shoebox Silverlake lounge with their dusky dreamrock every Monday in August. The occasion, a new EP — four fine songs fitted for internal dialogue with your aching eyes and heaving lungs.
Just a quick reminder that The Henry Clay People, Against Me!, and Silversun Pickups play The Greek Theatre tonight. Tix are still available.
SSPU are tremendous in large venues and it’s always great to see locals-done-right play a big stage like The Greek. HCP hit the stage at 7:30p, so get there early.
It’s pretty great that Pitchfork allows their writers to maintain individual voice and creatively express themselves in their record reviews. It is also true that the Chicago-based “small business pop music” publication’s editorial staff wields considerable power in both the numerical scores for their reviews as well as the thrust of the Pitchfork aesthetic narrative.
I dig this Modern Time Machines track “Dweeb”. It’s got the same combination of fuzzy guitar shoegaze noise and dreampop that makes that one nationally-known Silverlake band (Silverspoon something or other?) so popular.
Leslie Stevens and the Badgers, whom I profiled for Radio Free Silverlake last year, are releasing a 7″ single Los Angeles today on Trailer Fire Records. The single precludes a re-release of a trimmed-tracklist version their Roomful of Smoke LP later this year on Thirty Tigers.
This time of year marks the LA Music Festival season. Sunset Junction, Eagle Rock Music Fest, FYF Fest… and the Port of LA Lobster Fest. The 2010 Port of Lobster Festival lineup is announced, and boy is it a doozy…
I don’t always go for this sort of thing, but Luke Temple’s latest project Here We Go Magic put out a record, Pigeons, that reminds me of something between Local Natives and Micachu and the Shapes. (A good thing.)
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