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For this installment of The 7-Inch Corner, These Arms Are Snakes/Russian Circles bassist Brian Cook reminiscences about discovering Steel Pole Bath Tub and their “Bozeman” 7-inch, which was released in 1992 by Boner Records. TAAS just released their new album Tail Swallower & Dove via Suicide Squeeze and you should go buy it now. Read [...]
It’s a story that would easily fit on these pages, so I won’t call it long, just private. The conclusion to it is me making a CD for someone I met through the Junior League of Los Angeles. If you know me, and you know the Junior League, you will understand how utterly fucken unlikely [...]
Welcoming Campout effigy 1.57pm. El Monte, CA. DF barrels eastward down the 10 freeway and through the San Gabriel Valley. Losanjealous recedes into the distance, Kellogg Hill looms ahead on the horizon. The road trip is in its infancy and the sense of excitement is so palpable that DF rolls down the window [...]
DF is heading out to the desert this weekend, compadres. And no, this time it’s not about hitting the latest hip sex-addiction rehab spot, or avoiding a constellation of restraining orders so vast and complex that there are only a handful of areas in SoCal where I am legally allowed to be. Allow [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK 2008 CRACKER & CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN CAMPOUT Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven along with Built To Spill, Quasi, Citay, McCabe and Mrs Miller, The Dangers & many more Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace Thurs Sept 11 - Sat Sept 13 Info THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYS TIM FINN Thurs 9/11 El Rey Info [ENTER] TOADIES Thurs 9/11 Info The Roxy [ENTER] CITAY Fri 9/12 Tangier Info [ENTER] TRICKY...
Listening to Tantramar by saxophonist Joel Miller keeps reminding me of the lyrics to "Life is Grand" by the rock band Camper Van Beethoven: "And life is grand, And I will say this at the risk of falling from favor, With those of you who have appointed yourselves, To expect us to say something darker...
In what started out as a live-in Old West motion picture set built in the 1940s, where a number of Westerns and early television shows were filmed including The Cisco Kid, Pioneertown, CA will be hosting a different breed of entertainer ...
September marks the fourth annual Campout Music Festival in Pioneertown, California. Yeah, I said Pioneertown, the very same town where Westerns and TV shows, like The Cisco Kid, were filmed in the '40s. Badass. Music festivals are always more fun when they are held in cool locations. If only Dollywood was in California. The festival will take place September 11-13 at Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown...
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Camper Van Beethoven: 1990-03-15, Bochum [mp3,ogg,flac] "Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones cover)" [mp3] "The Man in Me (Bob Dylan cover)" [mp3] other Camper Van Beethoven posts at Largehearted Boy Carolina Chocolate Drops: 2008-07-27, Rockygrass...
Recalling shades of perennial Ickmusic faves Band of Horses, Tom Petty, and Wilco Bay Area band Tea Leaf Green landed in the inbox for a first listen of the first single from their new release Raise Up the Tent. Vivid and funky the tune evokes the scents and sounds of summer. Produced by David Lowery [...]
