Tag: Miranda July

Roundup: Jump Clubb, Nosaj Thing, Lucky Dragons + Miranda July + Paper Rad, Thavius Beck (MP3s, videos, etc)

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

  1. Download Most Of Jump Clubb’s Debut LP For Free
  2. Nosaj Thing Talks Beat Junkies and The Smell, Stars in Sampler Porn (video)
  3. Lucky Dragons, Miranda July, Paper Rad included in Space 15 Twenty video exhibition
  4. New Thavius Beck Album Arrives Three Months Early (MP3)

    5. (all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)

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

Q&A: The Duke Spirit nearly quits

England’s The Duke Spirit specializes in primal blues-fueled rock whose emotional subtleties are blasted forth on a take-no-prisoners wave of guitar squelch and sass. So it comes as some surprise to learn that the band almost called it quits before recorded last year’s Neptune LP out in the California desert with Queens Of The Stone Age producer Chris Goss. Singer Liela Moss talks about this, about spending seven weeks in the Palm Desert, and about Miranda July in this interview.

And for good measure, a ballad: