Fix Extended Play is a new online video music magazine hosted by Douglas Caballero for a company called Current. The premiere episode (view all 21 minutes of it here) includes feature-y segments on Portland punks the Thermals, M.I.A.-ish electro diva Santogold, UK electronic-pop chameleons Hot Chip (surprisingly hyping experimental-noise unit Gang Gang Dance) and shamrock punks Dropkick Murphys.
Next week's ish goes live Tuesday March 11 at 7 p.m. PT, and features Moby, Spoon, Diplo, Radical
Myspace Music Presents Goldrush featuring: Santogold, Mates of State, Low vs. Diamond, Alice Smith, 8 p.m.
Woot woot! $22.50-$25.50
House of Blues
1530 S. Disneyland Dr.
Anaheim, CA
714-778-2583
Karaoke Madness, 9 p.m.
O the madness!
Hogue Barmichael's
3950 Campus Dr.
Newport Beach, CA
949-261-6270
Drive for Special Olympics, 11 a.m.
The fifth annual golf tournament and fundraiser, exclusively benefiting Special Olympics Orange County.
Arroyo Trabuco Golf Course
26772 Avery Parkway
Mission Vi
In the most awesome co-headlining tour since 2004's "The Independent Tour" with Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken, buzz-building Seattle-originated bands Low vs. Diamond (who were here last month opening up for Santogold) and Barcelona are currently on the road together.
Cool, right? What's cooler is that said tour is coming to Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa on Dec. 9. That's pretty soon! Tickets are $10, and on sale now right here. Opening up on this date is Orange County's The Shys.
Here's the video
Radio is dead. MTV, as you have no doubt heard by now, doesn't play music videos anymore.
The best bet for bands these days is to get their song played on a TV show or commercial, as crass as that might sound—just ask Sia, whose "Breathe Me" became a hit after appearing in the series finale of "Six Feet Under," or any number of artists (Caesars, Feist, The Ting Tings) anointed with the career bump that comes from appearing in an iPod commercial. Doug Wallen recently wrote in the Weekly about
Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between
Black Lips are returning to Detroit Bar on April 15, but what of that other indie rock act that shares 2/3 of the same letters despite being remarkably musically different, Black Kids? Well, they're coming our way as well! April 24 at the Glass House in Pomona, with opening act/cutesy husband and wife duo Mates of State--last here in October opening up for Santogold at the House of Blues. Tickets are on sale this Thursday, Jan. 15, for 20 bones. Check out the Black Kids video for "Hurricane Jane
Last Night: Santogold at the House of Blues Anaheim October 13, 2008
Better Than: watching Austin Powers in Goldmember
Download: Santogold's "Your Voice"
An eclectic assortment of bands offered a little bit of something for everybody as Santogold, Mates of State, Alice Smith and Low Vs. Diamond rolled into the House of Blues Anaheim for the "Goldrush" tour.
Low Vs. Diamond came out with a purpose by unveiling their anglophile leaning anthemic rock tunes. I was looking for a bottle of aspi
