Jonathan Haskell’s gripping instrumental compositions as Seven Saturdays are the stuff of epic movie soundtracks, or of hours lost in ambient bliss imagining them. Since releasing his “Love in the Time of Anticipated Defeat” album and “Secret Things” EP, both in March 2011, Haskell has done a bunch of remixes while setting off in a […]
Updated: Since the download of this album has expired, we’ve included the stream below. File under limited-time offers: Jim Fairchild, the former guitarist for Grandaddy and the current guitarist in Modest Mouse, has been busy touring and working on his third album as All Smiles. I backgrounded it last November when All Smiles made a […]
Mark Linkous committed suicide over the weekend, and among the many remembrances of and tributes to the Sparklehorse main man is the following, penned by ex-Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild, who now makes music as All Smiles, and sent today to his e-mail list: Among many of the great memories I have of my happy times […]
All Smiles – the nom de tune of songwriter-guitarist Jim Fairchild – this week released a new EP, “Fall Never Fell,” the follow-up to his sophomore album “Oh For the Getting and Not Letting Go” (which is also finally seeing physical release). Fairchild, the former Grandaddy guitarist who is now touring axeman in Modest Mouse, […]
Tankfarm, the Orange County-based clothing company who used to partner with Future Sounds on their compilation CDs of music by breaking artists, have now hooked up with the MySpace Records Friends & Family program on a similar venture. The partnership’s first mix – featuring the likes of Sabrosa Purr [pictured], Jonneine Zapata, All Smiles, U-N-I, […]
Billy Corgan has been holed up in L.A. in recent months, writing new Smashing Pumpkins material, and at the Sky Saxon Tribute on Friday night at the Echoplex, he sprung one on the audience. Fronting a one-night-only band called Spirits in the Sky, which featured members of Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes (as […]
[Notebook entries, once sentence apiece …] Wolfmother [visit the site to sign up for the download of the new single “Back Round”] sure was great a couple Fridays ago in the Natural History Museum’s Mammals Hall (imagine that), but I was surprised that the set started and ran so late, since the museum’s First Fridays […]
Modest Mouse has announced a 12-date tour that includes a Feb. 24 stop at the Hollywood Palladium, with sometimes-L.A. resident and ex-Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild rejoining the band. Fairchild, who’s completed but not released his sophomore album as All Smiles, takes the place of ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr – who, when not involved in academic […]
To mark the two-month anniversary of the new Buzz Bands, I’ve created a compilation CD from 18 of the songs this site has offered for download. Almost all of the tunes have been exclusive to this blog, and most of them are from SoCal artists. There’ll be more like this in the future [watch for […]
On “Ten Readings of a Warning” (2007), his debut album as All Smiles, singer-guitarist Jim Fairchild came off as ruminative — a man likely still smarting over the breakup of Grandaddy, the band for which he toiled for more than a decade. Now Fairchild, who in the past few years has called Modesto, L.A., Portland […]
