Ten years after: Ten things I remember about 2008 (and a flashback playlist)
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Ten years later, 2008 sounds pretty good. The memories, though, are a mixed bag. Here’s Buzz Bands LA’s annual flashback.
Mr. Shovel to serve as guest host for tonight’s edition of the L.A. Buzz Bands show on KCSN (88.5 FM)
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[One more day of vacation, and then I am back at the helm on Monday. Meanwhile:] Mark Sovel (aka Mr. Shovel) – who during his tenure at the late, lamented FM outlet Indie 103.1 was one of the most fervent champions of the local music scene – will serve as guest host of the L.A. […]
Visceral reactions and valentines
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[Afternoon quickies while I listen to the rain and the nice new album by Elvis Perkins in Dearland … and if you need some accompaniment whilst reading this, here’s a stream of” Jason Bentley’s take on West Indian Girl’s “All My Friends,” one of a series of remixes the band just completed. WIG plays the […]
Online Indie 103.1? Don’t expect your favorite DJs
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[I have updated this post to include a photograph taken in 2004 by one of my old colleagues, Jonathan Alcorn. And (at 4 p.m.) updating one more time: At the end of the post is a video of the on-air announcement uploaded to YouTube by Yahoo’s Lyndsey Parker. The announcer, by the way, is a […]
Update II: Indie 103.1 going, going … to the Web
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[Updates in blue type.] Indie 103.1 (KDLD-FM) has gone quietly into the night. A message just posted on the station’s website (about 10:45 a.m.) says: BYE INDIE HELLO DIGITAL INDIE This is an important message for the Indie 103.1 Radio Audience – Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately.” Because of changes […]
Tunes & tidbits: Jimmy Tamborello, Jonesy, Tangier
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What’s next for for Dntel/James Figurine/Figurine main man Jimmy Tamborello? He says he’s collaborating with L.A. songstress Mia Doi Todd on a yet-to-be-named project. “I’ve given her songs that she’s writing to,” he says of the singer-songwriter, who released her seventh album, “GEA,” earlier this year. In other news, Tamborello refused to rule out an […]
At Indie’s show, no question who the Pretenders are
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Radio stations’ holiday soirees make for strange bedfellows. Indie 103.1’s bustling affair Wednesday night at Club Nokia attracted a startlingly cross-generational crowd: There were graybeards who had followed the Pretenders since Back in the Day — that day being 30 years ago, when their first single was released. And there were cherubs who had worshiped […]
The Gray Kid gets in the spirit with upcoming free EP
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The Gray Kid arrived in L.A. a couple of years ago with gym bag full of catchy raps, a pretty fair jumpshot (for a left-hander) and enough moxie to negotiate more than one velvet rope. Since then, he’s become a local club favorite and earned some attention for his collaborations in the People-Food arts collective […]
Everest comes down off the mountain for local gig
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If the Henry Clay People and Nico Stai have a sense of humor (and they might), each ought to play a cover song tonight at the second installment of Indie 103.1’s Check One Twosdays at the Echoplex. The Henry Clays could play a Neil Young tune, and Nico Stai one by Wilco — as a […]
Earlimart, Afternoons, Red Cortez, and the real scene
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There was a smattering of “Club Rockville” signs around the Echoplex last night, left over from the daytime filming of the forthcoming Internet series “Rockville, CA.” Josh Schwartz’s fictional look at the Echo Park music scene promises to be intriguing, at the very least, but it ain’t the real thing, baby. And last night would […]
