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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
News Bytes Twitter Next Week’s New ReleasesAccording to Lina Lecaro, aka Nightranger, Spaceland’s Mitchell Frank and Broadway Bar/Golden Gopher owner Cedd Moses were overheard at SXSW that they’d be joining forces for a new music venue in downtown L.A. The Los Angeles Times also wrote this up as well, read a little more in their Buzz Clubs section.
First brought to us by bloggers by likes of music.for robots and Suckapants, Cansei de Ser Sexy’s debut LP will finally find a home in the US via Sub Pop. If you happened to miss it the first time around, download their incredibly catchy number Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above, it won’t be long before this track receives a remix…Diplo maybe? Stream the entire album here.
“CSS’s Cansei de Ser Sexy, or “Tired of Being Sexy,” is their debut for Sub Pop. It is equal parts rock mantra and throwback into something new, transcending boundaries of genre and geography. It careers full speed into dance territory, into the unknown and untouched, to emerge all hot and bothered with wild electro-rock. Pretension? Absent. Friction? Probable. They are the un-pretension: unfinished, exposed, and throwing all they have right at you. It is quick, tightly-wound, unfastened and supreme. Not a sneer but a giggle.”
A US tour has been scheduled for this summer and if the Portuguese to English translator I used was correct, Diplo is supposedly going to accompanying the group for their first tour of the states.
An initial Los Angeles date for Friday August 11th has been scheduled. Check the entire tour routing on one of Cansei de Ser Sexy member’s Fotolog page.
Due to some rainy weekends lately the LA Treasure Hunt is now taking place on April 2nd. Not sure what the LA Treasure Hunt is, read a previous post here.
Ok so there isn’t really any comparison, it just happens that right now all I have been listening to is some really great “stoner pop” from Torche and some really infectious “twee pop” from The Submarines.
Torche hail from Miami, FL and feature Steve Brooks and Juan Montoya members of the defunct band, Floor as well as Cavity. The sound their bio says they create “echoes the scooped-EQ tones (all lows and highs with precious little mid-range) of the Melvins classic Ozma, the infectious riff-rock of Nirvana’s Bleach and glissando multi-part harmonies of classic Beach Boys” which is isn’t far off, though I definitly hear a little 80’s hardcore in there as well.
The Submarines are Blake Hazard and John Dragonetti, two musicans from Boston who played and recorded seperately eventually meeting up and started to record and tour together in each others bands. They then moved to LA, broked up and then reunited for “the music” and made the incredible album, Declare A New State!, it has yet to be released.