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 [...]
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. [audio:http://radradrad.com/music/if_you_got_some_magic.mp3] Rademacher – If You Got Some Magic (mp3)
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 [audio:http://download.wbr.com/recordcollection/av/04%20Hung%20Up%20On%20The%20Hang%20Ups.mp3] The Rolling Blackouts – Hung Up On The Hang Ups (mp3)
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 [audio:http://www.absolutelykosher.com/OcsicnarfNas.mp3] 60-Watt Kid – Ocsicnarf Nas (mp3)
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. Read more »
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.