Recovering from yesterday’s illness forced me to miss 120 Days, MGMT, Little Brother and Boys Noize. Bah.
But I arrived in time to see some Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks. Their loose rock jams slash sea shanties were adorned with much proggy filigree. It was nice big-sky music for a big-sky setting. “It’s time to go fucking Jack Johnson on your ass,” Malkmus announced later, strapping on an acoustic. That was my cue to bolt.
I strode over to the Sahara tent to catch Erol Alkan spinning
Usually, people tend to not give a shit when you turn 11. It just gets lumped into one of those "off years" lost in the fray. You might get a birthday cake out of it, but that's about it. Definitely not the case for the fans of Mannequin, Que Sera's weekly 80s extravaganza as the club celebrates its 11 year anniversary. After passing up the big "10" last year, this Tuesday night dance party is still down to "party like its 1999" (hint: Prince actually released the song in 1982, rendering that la
Brushfire Records artist Zee Avi is featured on page 50 of Spin this month. Prince is on the cover, in honor of the 25th anniversary of Purple Rain--the magazine is also offering a free tribute of the album, with Lavender Diamond, Chairlift and Riverboat Gamblers, among others.Her delightful cover of Morrissey's "First of the Gang to Die" is, in Spin's mind, the #1 song "you must hear now!" for the month of July. It was such fun irony to hear inescapably British former LA resident Moz warble abo
OK, surely by now you've read our cover story from last week's Weekly on Anaheim's Burger Records, the history of the label and their new store opening in Fullerton this past Saturday? Well, it opened as scheduled (never a sure-thing when it comes to opening up a retail operation), bringing out a healthy crowd and a good deal of rad used records along with their own vinyl and tape releases. Audacity played a reliably rowdy set, music was purchased, and a fun time was had by all. Here are some
Long Beach (OK, technically they live in Signal Hill) quartet On Blast--multi-instrumentalist Andy Kiddoo, singer Josh Brown, guitarist Travis Raab and producer/bassist Tone Blair -- play Thursday night at Alex's Bar with Free Moral Agents and Mode and Friday night...at a bar mitzvah. After running into Kiddoo at a Long Beach grocery store, I caught up with him for a Q&A.
