Subject: Devendra Banhart

• Elvis Perkins at Spaceland

  Providence's Elvis Perkins plays Club NME at Spaceland tonight, along with Pernice Brothers. Perkins' despondent (yet somehow soothing) vocals are somewhat reminiscent of crooners Jeff Buckley, Colin Meloy (eh) or Rufus Wainwright—but minus all that excessive theatricality. And recently signed to XL Recordings (home to indie powerhouses Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Basement Jaxx, Thom Yorke, Ratatat, Peaches and Tapes 'n Tapes), we've seen Perkins' name exalted in all the major music blog

  November 22, 2006

• White Rainbow's Prism of Eternal Now

  White Rainbow Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky) Release date: October 1, 2007 Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. White Rainbow is manifested in Portland, Oregon by one Adam Forkner, who previously expanded minds in Yume Bitsu and Surface of Eceyon; he's also sat in on recordings with Devendra Banhart, Jackie-O Mo

  October 3, 2007

• Last Night: Album Leaf at Detroit Bar

  Review by Reza Allah-Bakhshi Album Leaf Detroit Bar February 21, 2008 Better Than: Wishing you could inherit Jimmy Lavalle's talent simply by touching him. Download: “On Your Way” vid by Album Leaf I couldn’t think of a better way to spend a rainy Thursday night than to kick back with a brew and take in the visceral temptation that is Album Leaf live. And now that I have experienced it, the rest of my nights are pretty much ruined. Opening band What Laura Says Thinks and Feels sounds

  February 22, 2008

• Last Night: The Deadnotes, Western States Motel and Castledoor @ Detroit Bar on 5/12

  Better Than: Ick, it’s Monday. This is probably the best thing happening. Detroit Bar’s no-cover Monday started off with The Deadnotes from San Clemente. An upbeat five-piece, they played the sunshiney good stuff that comes straight from the vein of The Turtles “Imagine Me And You” complete with back up vocals consisting mainly of “oooo oooos" (always impressive when a drummer can sing while pounding away, no matter how simple the crooning may be). Although they had some slightly off-

  May 13, 2008

• Tonight: Army Navy, The Shys at The Coach House

  Army Navy—an excellent power-pop band from LA, returns to Orange County tonight with a show at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. It's a surprisingly hip show for that venue; not trying to talk out of class or anything, but their next two shows after this are the Bacon Brothers and Stephen Pearcy of Ratt. If you've heard the soundtrack to modest hit fall comedy Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, you've heard Army Navy; their tune "Silvery Sleds" shares space on that record with indie

  November 20, 2008

• Brazilian Rodrigo Amarante Teams Up With the Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti for Some Little Joy

  December 4, 2008

• Nothing's Shocking: Amy Winehouse Removed From Coachella Lineup

  (Yes, that's a picture of Amy Winehouse. Weird, right? It's from her MySpace. It's been up there since 2006.)Everyone--even us!--made the same joke when Amy Winehouse was announced back in January as performing at this year's Coachella. "No way she'll actually make it there!" Well, we were right, of course, as it's been announced that she's won't be at the April festival in Indio due to work visa problems--she won't be able to get one in time because she's been charged with assaulting a fan back

  March 10, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Everything New Is Old Again--and Vice Versa

  April 9, 2009

• Hippie-Trippy

  October 16, 2008

• Mediocre Madness: 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People,' 'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist'

  October 2, 2008

• Bonnets Off

  July 17, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] Swoon to 'Love Story' and the Uncategorizable Hecuba

  July 10, 2008

• Troubadour of Perception

  Folk-rock icon Donovan's music continues to raise consciousness

  February 7, 2008

• Hits!

  Secondspin

  October 25, 2007

• Locals Only

  Still Waters: Dan Marriner plumbs the depths for his personal and political songs

  August 9, 2007

• Believing

  My Morning Jacket

  January 4, 2007

• Trendzilla

  Yes, He Did Pose Himself Like That

  September 14, 2006

• Get Out!

  May 11, 2006

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Get Out!

  April 27 - May 4: the Slaughtahouse
  

  April 27, 2006

• Two Days in the Valley

  April 27, 2006

• Dear Band

  December 15, 2005

• Follow Till Death

  December 8, 2005

• KUCI-FM

  October 13, 2005

• Greene Records

  October 6, 2005

• Cat Power

  February 17, 2005

• Live Previews

  November 11, 2004

• Street Scene: Like a More Comfortable Coachella

  ​ After attending Street Scene, the two-day downtown San Diego music festival that took place on August 28 and 29, I was left with this impression: it's better than Coachella.

  August 31, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Making a Street Scene

  September 3, 2009

• WTF File: The Growlers on NBC LA?

  How the hell did we miss this? Not only did NBC recently launch a fluff-tastic version of "local's only" online news, one of our Local's Only bands were actually on it. On Oct. 27 The Growlers were invited to the newsroom of NBC LA to answer a cavalcade of the world's most generic questions. You could say it was just another score in a busy year for the Costa Mesa four-piece, chock-full of record releases, insane music videos and big time tours with Devandra Banhart and Edward Sha

  October 30, 2009