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Singer/songwriter Lavender Diamond (a.k.a. Becky Stark) contributes this song, "You Broke My Heart," to Paul Todisco's acclaimed sci-fi film One Day Like Rain. In honor of the tune, Paul directed this new video to correspond with the film's recent release. I tell you about this for two reasons: 1. I like Lavender Diamond, 2. Cinetic just launced One Day Like...
Photo: Alicia Rose Everyone’s going to call it a rock opera,” says the Decemberists’ frontman, Colin Meloy. “I’ve just got to come around to that.” Meloy is in the midst of mixing the band’s fifth album, Hazards of Love, at an Oregon City studio. It’s very different from the Decemberists’ 2006 major-label debut, The Crane Wife: [...]
(Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark, Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre. Picture taken from Hazyskyline’s Flickr stream) OK, file this under an 11th hour announcement. After a pair of shows this weekend in LA and SF supporting Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Lavender Diamond conclude their brief run with She & Him with the following [...]
The setup: High School Record , written/directed/photographed by Ben Wolfinsohn (who also did the Friends Forever documentary), is a film about a senior at an art high school who decides to document his last year there with his video camera. The flick's an official selection at Sundance, SXSW, NY Underground, etc. It also stars many of our favorite L.A.-area musicians. For instance, the accompanying...
Human Highway , the duo of Islands' Nick Thorburn and jingle master Jim Guthrie, played their first shows ever at Cake Shop on Monday and a show at Joe's Pub last night. Both were co-headliners with Paul Simon's son Harper Simon (sorry to name drop your dad, Harper) with Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark opening. If you haven't taken a listen to Human Highway's debut album, Moody Motorcycle , it's streaming...
Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark sent us the following message over the weekend. In the interests of preserving her own aesthetic (ie. I’m too lazy to rewrite anything), here’s her invitation to a pair of Manhattan performances, tonight and tomorrow : the first night is this monday the 15th at the cake shop- at 8 pm- i’ll be singing [...]
THE CITIZENS BAND presents "The Panic is On" - Sept. 7th / 8th / 9th @ Spiegeltent Visionary musical troupe The Citizens Bandare taking over the Spiegeltent for a three-night extravaganza. The Citizens Band is a sexy, ribald musical troupe...
Undesigned by Carol Young calls this pretty-pink frock "Soy Jersey Reversible Angel Wrap Dress in Bubble Gum," but I like to call it "Becky Stark in the video for 'Open Your Heart' by Lavender Diamond." Don't you wanna feel...
Sorry for the super late notice, folks, but we only got these dates very recently. Lavender Diamond’s mega-talented Becky Stark, aside from providing backing vocals to portions of the She & Him set, can be seen opening the proceedings at the following venues this week. August 5: Chicago, Illinois - Park West August 7: Minneapolis, Minnesota - [...]
“You guys all look so great and you sound so great too!” gushed actress Zooey Deschanel (the titular “She”) to a smitten audience at the Opera House in Toronto, opening their premiere North American tour. “So do you!” shouted one concertgoer in return. Whether you were lost in Deschanel’s baby blues or not, original songs [...]
From Lavender Diamond.com : “Becky & Ron have an art show in Echo Park for the rest of the month. - we’ll be having special workshops, and little performances throughout the month - stop by & say hello!”
Today’s song of the day comes from Asthmatic Kitty’s Cryptacize. I’m a sap for alternating male and female vocals and this simple little song is a good example. The rubato arrangement of this song makes it very expressive along with its minimal instrumentation of electric guitar and drums. Here you can read label-mate Sufjan [...]
A couple weeks ago I went to the Silent Movie Theatre for a little event uncomplicatedly titled "Psychedelic Healing Visions: A Love Song and Dance to the Unified Ground of Being: A Celebration of Lavender Diamond's film, Imagine Our...
PICK OF THE WEEK Scully & Wooden: For The Kids Vin Scully & John Wooden Moderated by T.J. Simers Friday June 13 Nokia Theater Info THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYS RILO KILEY with Lavender Diamond & Benji Hughes Wed June 18 Greek Theater Tickets & Info [ENTER TO WIN] BAJOFONDO TANGO CLUB fea. Gustavo Santoaolla Thurs June 11 | El Rey Info | [ENTER TO WIN] ISLANDS w/ Sebastien Grainger Tues June 17 | Henry...
Hello Friends! Awesome cartoonist, Ron Rege Jr. is having an art show and concert at the HOPE Gallery in Echo Park with fellow artist and band mate Becky Stark. From his blog: ‘The Mystical Unionists’ is a project of Becky Stark and Ron Rege Jr, both of the band Lavender Diamond. For one month they will turn [...]