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Monthly Archives: July 2016
New Music Friday
No big releases this year, which led me to discover two new bands. Kid Canaveral: A Scottish alternative pop band that formed in St Andrews in Fife, Scotland and are now based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They’re a big fan of 80s style alt-pop hooks so naturally I seemed to instantly gravitate toward their music. Viola […]
Get Out
After two weeks of political rhetoric, it should be nice to get out to Pershing Square and hear some American Music from The Blasters as well enjoy Martini Time courtesy of Reverend Horton Heat. Monday begins Nico Yaryan‘s month-long residency at The Bootleg. I really love the vibe on his new album “What A Tease“. Indeed […]
Artists on Talk Shows during the convention are killing it
I’ve been watching a lot of talk shows the past couple weeks and no matter which way you lean, there is no doubt in my mind that the artists have carefully selected the appropriate songs to play. Here’s Ryan Adam‘s performance of “Oh My Sweet Carolina” on Late Night with Stephen Colbert. This is for […]
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Tagged as: case/lang/veirs, Nice As Fuck, Prophets Of Rage, Ryan Adams, Weird Al
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2 For 2uesday Wilco Schmilco
This blog probably wouldn’t exist if not for my love of Wilco, so I always feel like I need to let the whole world wide web of music lovers know that Wilco is returning with new music. It’s been a year since their last album Star Wars came out so the announcement of a new […]
Musician Meltdowns
Part of the appeal of the live performance is that it’s live and when artists are scheduled to go on, they go on stage and perform no matter what is going on in their lives or how they’re feeling. As the saying goes “The Show Must Go On”. If all goes according to plan, the […]
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Tagged as: Axl Rose, Billie Joe Armstrong, Cecily Strong, Courtney Love, Father John Misty, Ne-Yo, Sly Stone
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Frontier Records
As I’ve been going in the spiral of the 70s LA punk rock scene after reading “Under The Big Black Sun“. I see that Frontier Records is still in business and doing the Good Lord’s work of delivering all your punk rock needs. You can go here and get a number of amazing compilations from […]
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Tagged as: Black Randy And The Metro Squad, Dangerhouse Records, Frontier Records, Under The Big Black Sun
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Slash Magazine
Back in the 70s before we had access to everything and could hear practically everything ever recorded, you could be brought up to date on all the local happenings in the LA punk scene for the low, low d.i.y. price of 50 cents. Nothing looked like it back then and nothing looks like it now. […]
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Tagged as: Slash Magazine, The Damned, Tom DeSavia, Under The Big Black Sun
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2 for 2uesday
I’m still on my LA Punk kick thanks to Under The Big Black Sun so here are two songs I recently discovered. New to me, new to you. As Chris Morris writes in his essay regarding the madness in some bands. “There were certain bands to which I gave a wide berth. One of them was […]
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Tagged as: Black Randy And The Metro Squad, Diane Lane, The Fabulous Stains, The Screamers, Under The Big Black Sun
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Under The Big Black Sun
I missed the L.A. Punk movement. Instead I had to settle ten years later for the Paisley scene. Not as cool. I just finished John Doe‘s anthology book “Under The Big Black Sun” that includes essays from many of the people associated with the LA punk scene. John Doe, Henry Rollins, Jane Wiedlin among many […]
