Latest Review: Magic Lantern - High Beams

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 [...]

Dusty Rhodes and the River Band

There was this great quote in The District Weekly’s article on Ikey Owens from a couple weeks back about Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, who’s latest album he produced.

On his coffee table is a little pile of unmastered studio CDRs; on the ride home, [Owens] picks out the probable Dusty Rhodes single, an adorable country-rock sing-along. “This record was like pulling teeth!” he says. “They thought they were making a Dylan record—I was like, ‘Yeah, I was 22 once—we’re making an Aerosmith record!’”

Said album, First You Live, turned out great and is available now from the band at their shows, of which they have many of coming up, and on their MySpace page. Speaking of shows, they are playing The Roxy this Saturday with Jackie Greene, and then will do some shows with Shooter Jennings followed by a string of dates with Los Lobos.

The music of Dusty Rhodes and the River Band has been a welcome relief from just about everything else that has crossed my path in the past couple days.

Download “The Ballad of Graff” (mp3)

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and “Oh Icicle” (mp3) from their new album, First You Live, and check out the video for the song here.

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Dusty Rhodes and the River Band’s old ep, Cut Open Like a Fish is available on iTunes.