Subject: Silver Lake (Staten Island)

• LYT's Film Pick(s) of the Weekend 12-7-07

  If you're a horror fan, see TIMBER FALLS this weekend. If you aren't, it won't be the one that wins you over. Call it The West Virginia Switchblade-Sickle Massacre. When a young couple (Edward Burns wannabe Josh Randall and Brittany Murphy wannabe Brianna Brown) go on a hike in a state park, they take the trail less traveled by, and that makes all the difference, as it’s inhabited by your average homicidal Bible-quoting lunatics with their own private dungeon. There’s not much here you hav

  December 7, 2007

• Rocks Great, Un-Ironic Hope

  March 16, 2000

• Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

  May 25, 2000

• IKEY OWENS, KEYBOARD LEGEND

  June 29, 2000

• How to Build a Band

  June 28, 2001

• How to Build a Band

  June 28, 2001

• Losing Their Sexy

  May 2, 2002

• Grindin' Honeys

  November 28, 2002

• Gap Kids

  March 11, 2004

• Lady Sovereign Drops 'So Human'

  Drops? You like that? I'm hip with the kids.Anyway, 5'1'' female British emcee released her new single, "So Human," today. The track is available for download here.Or you hear it for free here.The tune samples the Cure's "Close to Me," and while I'm on the fence about hip-hop butchering some of my favorite songs, I'm way into the S-O-V and the Cure, so it's a match made in heaven.I got a copy of Lady Sovereign's debut, Public Warning, and let it sit on my desk for about six months because the hy

  February 3, 2009

• TONIGHT: Final Night of Aushua Residency at Detroit Bar

  Orange's Aushua have had a truncated March Monday night residency at Detroit Bar--thanks to shows this month from Ra Ra Riot and Asobi Seksu--but their third and final show is tonight, and with some nifty opening acts: LA's Lemon Sun and Local Natives, formerly of Orange but currently of Silver Lake. Free as usual at Detroit on Mondays--April's residency will be from LA's wild and wooly The Ringers, who opened up for Japanese Motors at the very same venue last month.

  March 30, 2009

• Do That Voodoo

  December 11, 2008

• Moat Float

  May 15, 2008

• Before Sunset

  LA is very little of all its cracked up to be, what ho!

  August 26, 2004

• Martini Space Noise

  April 24, 2003

• Liking My Big Mouth

  June 17, 1999

• Locals Only

  August 19, 1999

• TOMORROW: Local Natives and The Union Line at The Gypsy Lounge

  Okay, I guess we all saw this coming. Local Natives have officially changed their origin to Silver Lake on their Myspace page....sigh, okay guys. Well, hopefully you and the OC can still be friends. For those of you who have followed the harmaonizing echoes, rumbling rhythms and spangly guitar chords of this band since their Mission Viejo days, tomorrow may be one of the slim chances you get to rock out to these guys in South County for a month or so, maybe more. They will be playing The Gypsy L

  April 16, 2009

• Album Review

  September 14, 2006

• Soldiers Pay

  August 24, 2006

• Two Days in the Valley

  April 27, 2006

• Sam's Club

  February 16, 2006

• This Week in Post-Punk-Electrowhatever

  January 26, 2006

• Santa Ana

  October 20, 2005

• Smell You Later

  July 28, 2005

• Nude Naked Adult Lindsay Lohan

  July 14, 2005

• Live Previews

  April 14, 2005

• Aloud and Alive In 2005

  January 6, 2005

• 2004 Scorecard

  January 6, 2005

• I Am a Gay!

  July 22, 2004

• Kevlar-Coated Soul

  May 27, 2004

• Pop Off the Tops

  January 15, 2004

• Skie Do

  October 30, 2003

• Clubbed!

  September 18, 2003

• Revolucion Grrrl Style Now!

  February 20, 2003

• Damaged Art Freak-O-Rama!

  December 19, 2002

• Figures

  December 13, 2001

• Crammed Down My Throat

  November 29, 2001

• New Music

  June 21, 2001

• Lounging Around

  March 1, 2001

• Synchronicity

  February 22, 2001

• Lost Weekend

  November 2, 2000

• New Music

  September 21, 2000

• Thank Yew, Richuhd Blade!

  May 11, 2000

• Just Like Broccoli!

  August 5, 1999

• Shag It, Baby

  June 24, 1999

• VIDEO: New Song by the Jakes

  Newport Beach five-piece talented-beyond-their-years the Jakes have weathered the loss of keyboard player Ehson Hashemian, and continue to rack up fans and acclaim, generally standing out as "the" Orange County band to watch; the one most likely to break out into the mainstream, and soon. They're on Red Light Management alongside names like the Dave Matthews Band, the Decemberists and Alanis Morisette (and Local Natives, formerly of OC and now of Silver Lake) and headlined the House of Blues in

  August 3, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Oldies but Not Moldies

  I'm so excited to share today's indie crafter with you--Cathy Callahan from Cathy of California has been such a crafty inspiration! She gets a lot of ideas from vintage 60s and 70s crafting techniques, but always executes them in a way that feels fresh. Mountains of mushroom pincushions by Cathy of California​ Plus, she's been on the Martha Stewart show! OMG! So come along with us - after the jump, we meet and get to know Cathy, and ask the hard-hitting questions. (Basically, is M

  September 11, 2009

• Flier of the Week: Two Great Tastes That Taste Sweet Together

  ​Not totally sure where this image has been lifted from, but come on: babe in bikini? Big-ass lion? Does anything say "must-see show" more than that? (Copious amounts of pink also help.)All of this wouldn't mean much, though, if the show was going to be lame. Thankfully, that seems very unlikely. Costa Mesa's Semi Sweet, who claim that their band started with a "bitch fight and a hose," are readying their new EP, and celebrating said release with a show this Thursday at Detroit Bar. The show's

  September 12, 2009

• Proposition 8 Is Keeping Same-Sex Couples From Marrying, But It Has United OC's Gay Community

  November 19, 2009