I saw the a link for Good Copy Bad Copy in the comments section of one of Chris Anderson’s (editor of Wired Magazine) continuing posts about his new book “Free” yesterday.
I wouldn’t say the ideas are anything new here, but what is interesting are the interviews with people in the other parts of the world and their views on copyrights and how they’ve either decided to ignore or play ball with US copyright law and the copyright laws of their home country.
There are also interesting interviews with Girl Talk, Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons), Olivier Chastan (VP Records), and a whole slew of others (for and against copyright reform) that you can see here.
It’s an hour long, so I recommend letting it load up this morning and then watch when you take your lunch.
Sunday, November 25th: Radamacher @ Allstar Lanes
Rademacher’s final night of their “blog residency” LA shows. Get the final 3 tracks from their new album, Stunts below. $5 cover includes bowling and shoe rental.
Rademacher - If You Got Some Magic (mp3)
Monday, November 26th: Francisco The Man! @ Knitting Factory
Francisco The Man! were really good last time I saw them at The Prospector. Also at Thursday at The Silverlake Lounge
Francisco The Man! - Lord Knows I’m Weak (mp3)
Also recommended: Le Switch @ The Viper Room
Tuesday, November 27th: The So So Glos @ Silverlake Lounge
A tip of the hat to Cat Dirt for the heads up on The So So Glos from New York.
The So So Glos - Black and Blue (mp3)
Also Recommended: Dead To Me @ The Glasshouse, The Henry Clay People @ The Prospector
Wednesday, November 28th: Don Caballero @ Safari Sam’s
For you instrumental math rock fans. I saw them about a year and a half ago at Alex’s Bar and they were really good. w/From Monument To Masses
Don Caballero - Mmmmm Acting, I Love Me Some Good Acting (mp3)
Also recommended: The Rolling Blackouts @ The Scene Bar, The Moon Upstairs @ La Cita
Thursday, November 29th: The Rolling Blackouts @ Silverlake Lounge
The Rolling Blackouts have got a lot of mileage out of their 2004 release, Black is Beautiful, we’re hoping they get something new out in ‘08. w/Francisco The Man, Weather Underground
The Rolling Blackouts - Hung Up On The Hang Ups (mp3)
Also Recommended: Letting Up Despite Great Faults @ The Prospector, 60-Watt Kid @ The Smell
Friday, November 30th: Ghostland Observatory @ Henry Fonda
I have still yet to see Ghostland Observatory, but word of their spectacular live shows continues to spread each time they come to town.
Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City (mp3)
Also recommended: Don Caballero @ Alex’s Bar, L.A. Record Player #2
Saturday, December 1st: 60-Watt Kid @ Pehrspace
60-Watt Kid mash multiple music genres together to make endearing psychedelic experimental pop. w/Katie The Pest, Abe Vigoda
60-Watt Kid - Ocsicnarf Nas (mp3)
Also recommended: The Living Suns @ Detroit Bar
Grab the last three tracks from Rademacher’s new album Stunts, as they complete their “Blog Residency” this week.
Track 3: “Machines” (mp3)
Track 5: “What Yr Used To Back Home” (mp3)
Track 7: “On Yr Marks” (mp3)
By now you should have got the rest of the album from Radio Free Silver Lake, You Set The Scene, and Aquarium Drunkard; see the recap below:
Track 1: “Arkansas” on Radio Free Silver Lake
Track 2: “Not My Home” on Aquarium Drunkard
Track 4: “If You Got Some Magic” on Radio Free Silver Lake
Track 6: “Today Is Different” on You Set The Scene
Track 8: “Stunts” on Aquarium Drunkard
Track 9: “Letter To Fresno, CA” on You Set The Scene
Rademacher play the Eagle Rock Bowling and Drinking Club this Sunday at All Star Lanes: 4459 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
This was cool. Local LA artist, Max Neutra, did some live painting during Tweak Bird’s set last night at The Scene Bar in Glendale. See some of his past work in live action. …continue reading »
The Strange Boys at The Doll Hut by me
Last night at The Doll Hut was just another example of why touring bands don’t want to come to Orange County - localism (using the surfing term is the best way I can describe local bands being shitty to touring bands) and crappy crowds full of teenagers who have no respect for anyone.
Jay Reatard and The Strange Boys (as I overheard in the parking lot later that night) showed up at The Doll Hut around 5pm and were told there wasn’t a show, so they went and got a room (I imagine they went and called their booking agent to confirm there actually was a show) and then came back a little later to be greated by the local bands who I guess were orginally booked on the bill (though when I checked earlier in the evening, not one of the “scheduled” bands had the show listed on their own myspace) and were pissed that one of them was getting bumped.
I walked in as Pterodacdudes were going on, and after reading about Erin’s experience there a couple weeks back, I braced myself to have to sit through some pretty subpar bands. But as Pterodacdudes played I was surprised that they were pretty ok - in a less intense The Bronx kind of way - and had a energetic group of friends out to support them.
After Pterodacdudes finished, I guess Killer Dreamer was supposed to play, but they got barred and The Strange Boys took the stage next, who I was there mostly for in the first place. They seemed a little worried that the crowd might turn on them due to the night’s circumstances, but thankfully nothing weird happened and they had a pretty solid “crowd” (and I use that term loosely as The Doll Hut isn’t big enough to hold the amount of people that would constitute a “crowd”) that were just as eager as I was to check out the Austin by the way of Dallas, TX group’s Dylan worshipping country-tinged garage rock.
The Strange Boys set was way tighter than I was initially led to believe from their recordings I had heard, they were loud and tightly tuned with the guitars and rhythm section locked in a groove all night that juxtaposed nicely with Ryan Sambol’s adolescent warbblely marble-mouthed vocals.
Download “Nothing” (mp3) from their Nothing 7″ which you can pick up from Dusty Medical Records.
Sunday, November 18th: Jay Reatard @ The Smell
Jay Reatard - the one man songwriting machine - formerly of The Lost Sounds and The Reatards is touring behind his solo releases Blood Visions and Night of Broken Glass. Look out for the Flying V’s. w/Mika Miko, No Age, The Srange Boys
Jay Reatard - All Over Again (mp3)
Also recommended: Rademacher @ Spaceland, The Strange Boys (later that night) @ The Echo
Monday, November 19th: The Strange Boys @ The Doll Hut
This is the final show of The Strange Boys stint in Southern California, they are listed as playing The Echo, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. w/Jay Reatard
The Strange Boys - All Kings Are The Same (mp3)
Also recommended: Castledoor @ Detroit Bar
Tuesday, November 20th: Pleasureboaters @ The Scene Bar
Seattle’s Pleasureboaters are on their first West Coast tour supporting their debut release, Gross, that I can best describe as a car crash between The Blood Brothers and These Arms Are Snakes. w/Tweak Bird, The Front, Tsk Tsk
Pleasureboaters - Andalou (mp3)
Also Recommended: Big Business @ Troubadour, Skybombers @ Viper Room, The Soft Hands @ Silverlake Lounge
Wednesday, November 21st: Spindrift @ The Echo
Back from tours with The Black Angels and Hopewell, Spindrift return to Los Angeles for a pre-Thanksgiving show at The Echo.
Spindrift - Legend of God’s Gun (mp3)
Also recommended: Municipal Waste @ House of Blues
Thursday, November 22nd: Crystal Antlers @ The Prospector
It’s always nice to spend time with family, but usually after a few hours you’ve had enough and are ready to make an escape. Normally there is no where to go on the holidays, but this Thanksgiving you are in luck as Crystal Antlers are playing. w/Dr. Frederick Phases, Sonic Dread
Crystal Antlers - Parting Song For The Torn (mp3)
Friday, November 23rd: Minicipal Waste @ The Galaxy
Look out for flying boogie boards and brace yourself for a thrash attack, Municipal Waste are coming to Southern California with Suicidal Tendencies in support of their new album, The Art of Partying.
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying (mp3)
Also recommended: ExitMusic @ El Cid, Cold War Kids @ The Wiltern
Saturday, November 24th: Shields @ The Prospector
A night of fuzzy hazy spacey shoegazer rock and ambient sounds. All the bands on the bill - Shields, Tropic of Cancer, and Midnight Gardners sound like they could have contributed songs to the Lost In Translation soundtrack.
Shields - Summer Is Here (mp3)
Also recommended: The Swedish Models @ The Roxy
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Blackstrap - Steal My Horses and Run
Initially released in Europe in October 2006, Blackstrap’s second full length, Steal My Horses and Run, is finally seeing it’s official release in the U.S. via New York’s Tee Pee Records.
At first pass it would be easy to write off Steal My Horses and Run as just another retread of the JAMC and My Bloody Valentine catalogs, that is if it weren’t so well executed and/or if you weren’t able to make to the last quarter of the album where the band really opens things up with some more diversified song writing. Coming across much the same as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club did on their first album, Blackstrap wear their influences (Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Neu!, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stereolab and Suicide) on their sleeve, writing songs that would fit on any of the aforementioned bands’ albums, only with much better production.
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Triclops! - Out Of Africa
Made up of former and current members of Bottles and Skulls, Fleshies, Lower Forty-Eight and a drummer who is in too many other bands to list, San Francisco’s Triclops! are a veritable hybrid of the Bay Area underground punk/hardcore scene.
Triclops!’s “trademark” are their vocals, which for about half of Out Of Africa are run through broken solid state amps with a phaser explosion - achieving a sound that I can only describe as how the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala would sound singing underwater. While slightly off-putting on first listen, the phasered vocals effects - delievered by Fleshies’ Johnny - become pretty aurally addictive over the course of the album, so much so that when the effect is not being used, I found myself anxiously awaiting it’s return.
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Princeton - Bloomsbury EP
Yes, basing songs upon classic literary works and-or their creators at first always seems pretentious, even ColinMeloyian, but hey, if it was good enough for the likes of Iron Maiden and David Axelrod who are we to disagree. Enter Bloomsbury, the new 4-song EP from Eagle Rock, CA’s own shaggy academes turned shaggy indie rockers, Princeton. All glib - borderline sarcastic introductions aside, Bloomsbury is well put together and accessible, surprisingly so when you consider the lyrical focus on early 20th century London intellectuals and the long list of instrumentation.
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Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul - Collectors Edition
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul is arguably one of Redding’s best albums, if not one of soul music’s best. It presents a cohesion beyond the usual collection of singles and b-sides common of the time, and it also set the stage for what would become his most recognizable and influential yet ultimately tragic song, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”. In many ways Otis Blue is the last Otis Redding album, not technically as there’s his duet album with Carla Thomas and the posthumous Dock of The Bay, but in terms of an album that’s Otis through and through, not to mention proof of what could have been to come from the young Georgian, this is the one.
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The Heavy - Great Vengeance Furious Fire
heav·y; Of great intensity, Having great power or force, Indulging to a great degree, Of great significance or profundity…
Not since the The Clash has a band’s name been as succinct and appropriate as The Heavy. These four guys and one gal hailing from the town of Bath (UK) have an arsenal of sweet baadasssss songs that transport you back to a time when blow was big, hair was bigger and Dracula was black. However you slice, dice, cut or sort it, their album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, released in the UK last year and here in the states just a few weeks ago, is one goddamn heavy piece of work.
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The Black Keys - Attack and Release
It can be an all-too-common occurrence for those whose musical tastes extend beyond, or completely avoid, commercial radio, that a band who one champions as underappreciated gets the recognition they deserve… but for the wrong album! And then subsequently tours ad nauseam until releasing another album to a fickle public who may or may not care anymore. Too many examples spring to mind, but my elitist and ultimately meaningless point is that while I was worried the same fate laid waiting for The Black Keys with 2006’s Magic Potion, I was thankfully wrong. It’s not that MP wasn’t a good album, it just wasn’t the album (see; Rubber Factory), but now with their latest release I can rest calmly with the assurance that The Black Keys’ (Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney) upward trajectory is analogous with the mastery that is Attack and Release.
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