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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 [...]
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This is where you will find Midnight and I tonight, happy to be able to finally see Roky, as we both missed him when he played at SXSW with Billy Gibbons earlier this year. D’oh!
Our friends over at LA Record are presenting the show tonight and have been running a bunch Roky related stuff on their website this week, including a new interview with the man, a podcast of their wish list set list, and a trivia challenge for a pair of tickets to tonight’s show and some other stuff including the gatefold 2XLP Roky Erickson and The Explosives – Halloween: Recorded Live 1979-81. Yeah we both want that record, too bad those trivia questions are so damn hard, the best either of could do were some educated guesses.
Tickets for tonight’s show are still available or you can just hit up this guy.
American writer Thomas Wolfe may have made the case that you can’t go home again, but I wonder what he would say were he to have known anything about recently relocated to Texas’ Greg Ginn. In case you have been under a rock, Greg Ginn was the guitarist and founder of one of the raddest bands ever on the planet Earth… Black Flag, though he also made time to moonlight in other great bands like Gone. He also created the equally rad SST records as an outlet for the type of music he saw fit to press. What many may not know is that SST still exists, mainly as catalog, but also to release Ginn’s latest guitar wizard incarnation in the poorly named jam band… Jambang…who will playing locally next week. Although I never really phelt Phish, I may stroll down there out of curiosity since Blue Cafe in HB is walking distance from my home.
MP3: Jambang – All Cylinders
MP3: Jambang – Lasing Impression
Download the entire album Connecting for free from SST.
Here’s some dates:
Nov 4 @ Brick By Brick in San Diego, California
Nov 6 @ Blue Cafe’ in Huntington Beach, California
Nov 7 @ Fais Do Do in Los Angeles, California
Nov 9 @ Blue Cafe’ in Long Beach, California
Ok, you got me, Red Fang aren’t local (they’re from Portland) and they don’t have any tour dates in the LA area scheduled, but I couldn’t help posting their new music video for “Prehistoric Dog” off their new self titled LP out now on Wantage. Their new LP is a collection of songs from their first two Tour EP CD-Rs and one newly recorded song and just might give Torche’s Meanderthal a run for album of the year. And this video? Definitely Video Of The Year!
I have been on a super Magic Lantern kick as of late, so the news that their out-of-print debut CD-R release (originally limited to 30) has been given the vinyl treatment and re-released by Woodsist, couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
MP3: Magic Lantern – At The Mountains of Madness
Pick up Magic Lantern’s Self Titled LP up at Forced Exposure or Insound and delve into the listening habits of Magic Lantern’s Philip French, William Giacchi and Cameron Stallones in this old Dusted feature.
While at Meeting Of The Minds in Chino over the weekend I met the guys behind The Crosby and Free The Robots, who gave me the lowdown on the upcoming soundDowntown Music & Arts Festival they are involved with. Taking place in downtown Santa Ana on Saturday November 15th, the festival boosts an eclectic line up that should do well in satisfying a wide variety of musical tastes that such a festival is sure to attract. Below is the entire lineup in alphabetical order:
Blank Blue, Bobby Soul, Busdriver, Cheap Date, DJ Dan Oh, DJ Dan Sena, DJ Nobody, DJ Pubes, Faded Tequila Wormz, Free Moral Agents, Free the Robots, From Elsewhere, International Noise Conspiracy, Living Suns, Look Daggers, Majic Bullet Theory, Mexican Institute of Sound, MODE, My Hollow Drum, Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible, Nosaj Thing, Protect Me, Satisfaction, Scotty Coats, Shepard Fairey, Sparrow Love Crew, Tea Long, The Entrance Band, The Hattrix Project, Two Guns, Venus Infers, Zechs Marquise, and Zutra
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door, entrants will receive a wristband that will grant them access to each individual venue (The Crosby, The Yost Theater, Bistro 400, Grand Central Art Center, Festival Hall, Grand Central Art Center, Gypsy Den, Jason’s Downtown, Memphis Restaurant, Proof Bar, CSF Grand Central Center) that will be hosting the above musical acts.
soundDowntown 2008 also signals the return of Koos Art Center, whose presence laid the groundwork for Santa Ana’s cultural vibrancy. Founder and soundDowntown producer Dennis Lluy reopens Koos at the Yost Theatre, once a Mexican movie house and Vaudeville theatre, and will host the soundDowntown bill featuring; International Noise Conspiracy, Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible, the Entrance Band and Free the Robots.