Here's another roundup from our pal Jeff Shaw:
Ah, the New Year. Time of transformation, time of bubbly-spawned magic, time of awkward passes and resolutions you mean at the time. While you're preparing for the long sled ride down Hangover Hill, here's some topical listening material.
5. Death Cab for Cutie, "The New Year"
"So this is the New Year ... and I don't feel any different." Who among us cannot identify with these sentiments? The ennui associated with arbitrary calendar-flippage? We'v
Not the busiest of week for on-sale dates, but we've still got OK Go (in case anyone needs to score a wacky montage scene from a sitcom circa 2006), a bunch of Howard Stern Show personalities, and more.
Tomorrow's OK Go show at the House of Blues in Anaheim? Totally canceled! Well, rescheduled, actually. According to a note on OK Go's official Web site, lead singer Damian Kulash has fallen ill, and "his doctor has ordered him not to sing for the next 48 hours." The new date is April 10. You'd hope that maybe the HOB would go ahead with a show with opening acts Jaguar Love and IO Echo, but, nope. Seeing as how tonight's San Diego OK Go show was also scrapped, they probably didn't make the trip.
Here it goes again, indeed. OK Go are in town tonight, playing their rescheduled House of Blues Anaheim date. Last month's show was scrapped due to lead singer Damian Kulash's health, but he's apparently got got got gotten over it (teehee!). Previously scheduled opening acts IO Echo and Jaguar Love will be there as well. It's like, totally March 2009-retro!Also going on around town tonight: a neat show at the Light Gallery in Costa Mesa, headlined by one of our local faves, CM's The New Limb (th