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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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That’s right, the venerable end-of-summer Echo Park expletive event is hitting the road for 2008. The tour will feature Matt & Kim, Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, The Death Set, Monotonix and many others including Long Beach’s own Crystal Antlers.
28 shows in 28 days starting June 17th in Baltimore. That Bluebird bus should be pretty ripe when it arrives back in L.A. for the August 30, 31 shows (which are going to take place downtown this year for some reason).
Check out full line-up and all the dates on the F Yeah Tour website.
Haven’t had your rock bone tickled in a while? (no, not that one), then you’ll need to check out The Yelling. Apparently once known as Maryandi, The Yelling is led by transplants Nathaniel Cox and Robert Davis who appear to have arrived in Los Angeles to save it from the current invasion of mustachioed finger-painters and their tambourine wielding girlfriends who recreate Smile instead of bathing and call it genius.
I could go on to tell you how The Yelling sounds like a polyembryonal gametophyte mutation of Jack White, David Bowie, Angus Young, Cedric Bixler and Ozzy, but that would just be stupid. You should probably just grab the track and hear for yourself.
Thanks for tip Future Sounds.
MP3: The Yelling - Blood on the Steps
The Yelling play The Shore in Hermosa beach May 28th and The Roxy June 6th.
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. Read more »
If you’ve already given up on the week at this early juncture as I have, and you’re weighing your options for this Friday night, heading out to Spaceland for The Parson Red Heads’ EP Release show should be at the top of the list. Not only are you in store for an assuredly impressive performance by the local carrot-topped clerics, but also playing are Austinites by-way-of San Francisco, Monahans. Mixing everything you (should) like about Springsteen, Stone Roses, and Jesus & Mary Chain, Monahans are able to remind us that qualitative adjectives like ‘ambient’ and ‘tranquil’ are not antithetical to rock & roll. To learn that their 2007 release, Low Pining, was almost an entirely instrumental endeavor is not surprising, as most songs have a very bottom-up structural feel to them, and while I’m glad that lyrics were ultimately included, the process clearly served them well. Make sure to catch their set this Friday.
You can hear the whole album HERE and buy it too!
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.
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul, re-released April 22nd in Collectors Edition form by those lucky folks with WEA vault access at Rhino Records, has all the original songs in both mono and stereo versions plus plenty ‘o bonus material, such as live cuts from his 1966 Whisky a Go Go concert and standouts from the Live in Europe recordings. Read more »
