Secretly Canadian has signed a new L.A.-based band whose membership has been kept, well, secret. Until, that is, West Coast Sound blew the lid off of that mason jar. With a little bit of elbow grease and lots of Googling, Music Go Music‘s makeup has been revealed in its entirety, here (via LA Weekly), where you can download the ABBA-loving outfit’s music and watch them perform in outfits that ABBA would probably love.
Music Go Music go fencing?
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INCHES004 has landed over at LA Weekly‘s West Coast Sound. Installment number four picks off where last week left off, an unthemed collection of just-released (this week!) L.A.-relevant vinyl reviewed, photographed, and MP3’d, accompanied by a top ten vinyl sales chart from one of our neighborhood record shops. Inside, you’ll find a Velveeta-yellow slab of wax by Bygones (Zach Hill + Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart), the latest from Division Day, the premier Anticon/Dublab release (featuring music by Hecuba, Lucky Dragons, Julia Holter, matthewdavid, and four others), and the long-delayed vinyl version of Nosaj Thing‘s Drift. Plus, check out the local-friendly list from Origami Vinyl.
Bygones, "by-"
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Matisyahu, Light (via The A.V. Club)
Grade: C-
[Listen to the album’s lone left-field banger, “Smash Lies,” in the Lala player.]
Blitzen Trapper, Black River Killer (via The A.V. Club)
Grade: C+
[Click here to read an interview with Blitzen Trapper’s Eric Earley — via Decider.]
In September, several talented French performers are coming to Los Angeles for the first annual (?) Ooh La L.A. Festival. Read about it here (via LA Weekly), and though he won’t be performing, check out Paris’ Sliimy below because, well, the song and video are awesome. I have a feeling that understanding the lyrics might ruin it for me, but at surface value… love it.
It might verge on gratuitous understatement to suggest that Jack White has been a busy little rock goblin of late. The White Stripes are old hat by now, and the Raconteurs, well, that story’s been told as well. But the pace at which Mr. White is currently moving threatens to push even his new Dead Weather project, with Alison Mossheart of the Kills, into yesterday’s headlines. Fortunately, he’s bringing the band along for the ride.
This coming Wednesday, August 26, the Dead Weather will give a noontime in-store performance at Third Man Records And Novelties West, and if you don’t recognize the name of that shop, it’s because it doesn’t exist. Third Man Records is the label recently started by White, and though its got a permanent brick-and-mortar home in Nashville, the storefront has been touring. In mid-July, Third Man set up on New York for two days. This week, it’s coming to L.A.
The new album from L.A.’s The Happy Hollows is due out in October, but you can hear it now. Listen, download and learn here (via LA Weekly). The piece includes a bit of band trivia as well. An older song:
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Ladies and gentlemen: INCHES003. By journalistic law, this column now qualifies as a trend. Installment number three is actually the first “regular” edition, an unthemed collection of just-released L.A.-relevant vinyl reviewed (with original photos and free MP3s, of course), accompanied by a top ten vinyl sales chart from one of our local record shops. This week, you’ll find a new Flying Lotus EP, some incredible throwback bossa nova by Triorganico, seven inches of Adam Payne jamitude, and a killer Dublab release compiling work from the best of this city’s beat music scene. Plus, see what Vacation Vinyl’s been selling (hint: rhymes with “meth kettle”).
Flying Lotus, "L.A. 3 X 3 EP"
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