For the eleventh straight year, Gobble Gobble Give will be packaging and delivering meals to those in need in and around The Echo on Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, The Echo, that snazzy little joint in Echo Park where a bunch of creepy old white guys recently stared just a little too hard at the three tiny [...]
Photo by Flickr user Helena P. When watching a concert, there are many thoughts that may pop into one's head. "Oh, this is pretty cool, maybe I'll buy their album." Or, "This is putting me to sleep." When I saw Shonen Knife live at Johnny Brenda's on Monday, the thought that immediately popped into my head was, "I wish I could bake this band in to a cake so I could eat them!"...
Wherein searching through my list and skipping the Christmas songs All Her Favorite Fruit, Camper Van Beethoven Autumn Leaves, Edith Piaf Baby Seed, Momma Stud Banana Boat, Edric Connor The Banana Boat Song, George Clinton Banana Boat Song (Day-O) Banana Chips, Shonen Knife Banana Juice, The Mar-Keys Banana Pancakes, Jack Johnson Belleville Jungle, Les Triplettes De Belleville Big Apple, Urban Dance...
All in all, it was a real hoot this past weekend down in Austin at the fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, where I managed to catch some 30 bands ranging from hardcore, to post rock, to silly dance bands....
After 17 years of waiting, Nirvana’s incredible headlining concert at the 1992 Reading Festival was finally (officially) released on CD/DVD as Live at Reading this week. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Kurt Cobain and Co. also played Reading in 1991, performing on the bottom third of the bill on the fest’s first day. A year [...]
Local Natives will be performing tonight at the El Rey Theatre | Photo by Benjamin Hoste for LAist Our Pick: White Rabbits, Glass Ghost, Local Natives @ El Rey Theatre Tonight NY-bred indie pop outfit Vampire Weekend (LAist Review , #2 , #3 , #4 ) will be performing to a sold-out crowd at yet another unlikely venue, the Art Theater in Long Beach. Japanese all-female pop punk trio Shonen Knife are...
PICK OF THE WEEK Pixies Doolittle Tour Wed 11/4 w/ No Age Thurs 11/5 w/ Black Gold Fri 11/6 w/ Rain Machine Hollywood Palladium THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Bostich + Fussible Nortec Collective Presents Thurs 11/5 Echoplex Info [ENTER TO WIN] Múm w/ Sin Fang Bous & Hildur Gudnadottir Fri 11/6 El Rey Theater Info [ENTER TO WIN] HEADS UP The Books @ Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge Mon...
Nashville's Jake and Jamin Orrall, aka JEFF The Brotherhood, play a satisfyingly straightforward, minimal style of psychedelic rock 'n' roll that now and again reminds me of a cleaner-cut power-popping Misfits (it's in the vocals cadences). You get some of that in this Brad Holland-directed video for "U Got The Look." They recently did a number of dates with Ted Leo -- he's a fan, which...
Múm will be performing Friday at the El Rey Theatre | Picture via Múm's Myspace This week legendary Boston-bred alternative rock outfit the Pixies will be taking on a three-night stint at the Hollywood Palladium with local noise-infused rockers No Age (LAist Review , #2 ) and Brooklyn-bred TV on the Radio 's Kyp Malone, who will be performing material from his solo endeavor Rain Machine...
NPR reviews (and excerpts from) Philip Roth's new novel, The Humbling. The official Google blog explains the new Google music search. I posted the list of the online best of the decade (2000-2009) music lists yesterday. Today's additions: Aiming to...
We're giving away two pairs of tickets for the November 2nd show at The Echoplex. Answer the following question and win a pair of tickets! Shonen Knife: 1. Where and when did Shonen Knife form? Email info@space15twenty with the answers and your full name.
It’s been almost two years since I last saw Shonen Knife ; too long. They played Vancouver’s less-than-palatial Biltmore Cabaret ; I got close to the stage with my camera.
There are just a handful of precedents in today’s American music business: Yoko Ono (via John Lennon), Shonen Knife, Puffy AmiYumi. And for eclectic listeners, The Boredoms. Japanese pop music hasn’t survived the flight to the United States well, despite the twin successes of anime and manga. “Today, without anime soundtracks, we’re nothing,” a New York-based Sony promoter...