Tag: Los Angeles

Live in L.A.: Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar Perform Kerouac Songs (on Spin)

Happy Monday. Last week I previewed the odd-but-good combo of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo), who are doing a handful of dates together in support of their Jack Kerouac-inspired new album, One Fast Move Or I’m Gone. Well, this week, I reviewed their full-band performance at El Rey. For Spin. And you can read it here. Also, Andrew Herrold took some great photos.

Roundup: Flying Lotus & Friends, U-N-I Hats, Dublab Art, Jogger + Nite Jewel

Quick bloggy bits from around the L.A. underground (and up):

  1. Flying Lotus Hosts Epic B-Day Jam w/ Computer Jay, Shafiq Husayn, Gaslamp Killer, Matthewdavid, many more (MP3)
  2. Inglewood Rap Duo U-N-I Designs Lakers-Inspired Hat (MP3)
  3. Dublab Holds Art Auction Featuring Sumi Ink Club, Travis Millard…
  4. Tonight, Free: Jogger, Nite Jewel, and Kozy(ndan) at Calling All Kids

    (via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
    *If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.

    Roundup: Hella MP3s, Jurassic 5.1, Frank Fairfield, Ice T Jumps A Dreadlocked Shark

    Quick bloggy bits from around the L.A. underground (and up):

    (via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)

    *If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.

    L.A. Experiential: These Arms Are Snakes, Signals, DD/MM/YYY (also: Breakestra, Mem1)

    If you live in/around the L.A. area, seriously consider attending this:

    • Region: Downtown
      Music: These Arms Are Snakes, DD/MM/YYY, Signals
      Vitals: The Smell on Tuesday, October 13
      (details at LA Weekly).

    Also, for posterity’s sake, here’s a link to a “lost” preview of last week’s Breakestra record release show (along with text on a Mem1/Swiss minimalist electronics night). Like the above entry, the text was included in the “Rock Picks” post, but not added to the independent entry. I suspect gaslighting. Mark Cetilia of Mem1 was an instrumental help on the “Bend Everything” piece.

    INCHES010: Pelican, James Pants, Foot Village, 60 Watt Kid, Meanest Man Contest (+ video!)

    INCHES010 really is the best INCHES yet. Not a bum photo, with clean text on four (count ’em) super solid releases from L.A. -area artists and/or labels, AND a music video debut from Foot Village. Each piece of wax covered this week is short-form — one 12-inch, three sevens — so this week’s MP3s come from other sources. Still, it’s free music, and we all like that. Congrats to Fool’s Gold, who comes in at number two on Origami Vinyl’s sales chart.

    Like Beyoncé said: “If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.”

    James Pants Thin Moon

    James Pants' "Thin Moon"

    Best Of L.A.: Vinyl, Cassettes, Music Tees, The Smell, Build-Yr-Own Instruments and More

    The LA Weekly‘s annual “Best Of” issue is on stands now — in theory at least, they usually disappear pretty quickly. But whether you’re in-town or out, near the paper product or not, you can read all about our favorite things (300 of them) here. I contributed a handful of writeups on local people and places that I hold dear, all music-skewed of course, and you can go direct to each below.

    More after the jump.

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