Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band and Built to Spill will headline this year’s Sunset Junction Street Fair, according to several reports around the Web this morning, and I’m also hearing that ’60s proto-punks the Sonics are on board to play the festival. Some of the local bands on the undercard have already been […]
[Some of the lots and lots of things that have come to my attention …] Coming soon to the Beck.com website will be a section called Record Club – which will feature mp3s of songs from studio sessions during which Beck and his pals will re-record an entire album in a single day, sans rehearsal. […]
Monsters of Folk – the supergroup with Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis – are signing to Santa Monica-based Shangri-La Music, home to the likes of the Pretenders, the Duke Spirit and up-and-comers Amazing Baby and Band of Skulls. One insider described the terms as for “make-or-break-a-label money.” Rolling Stone says to […]
File this under feel-good local stories: Silver Lake favorites Division Day are signing to Dangerbird Records, the L.A.-based home to Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love, Sea Wolf, the Dears and Eulogies, among others. The band’s sophomore album, “Visitation,” is tentatively set for release in August. The formal announcement of the new alliance is expected later […]
Red Cortez and Glasser have been added to the benefit show for the fire-ravaged TacoZone truck, which I posted about earlier in the day. Kenan Bell and Robert Francis are the other principals for Friday’s shindig at Spaceland.
Tuesday afternoon update: The Mae Shi have dropped off the bill for this benefit, and a new lineup is in the works. Stay tuned. Vandals on Friday night set fire to the locally famous TacoZone taco truck stationed on Alvarado a couple blocks north of Sunset. The setback knocked the popular dispensers of late-night munchies […]
If I had to guess, I’d say Sunset Junction is going to happen this year. I know its status still seems to be a subject of debate in some circles, but suffice to say things will be worked out in time for the big charity street fair Aug. 22-23. Can’t get anyone to clue me […]
Now that “Oracular Spectacular” rolls off everyone’s tongue as if it were part of our music vocabulary all along, MGMT will slowly be rolling out new material in live appearances this summer – possibly some songs they wrote while holed up recently in Malibu. Ben Goldwasser said in an interview with Australian radio that he […]
Gliss’ current tour may not necessarily be one for the ages, but it’s certainly one for the police blotter. The L.A. trio, criss-crossing the country in support of its sophomore release “Devotion Implosion” [review], has felt the exhilaration of playing several bang-up shows – they circle back to L.A. and play with Von Iva on […]
The La’s are making new music? At the risk of tainting, or at least de-mystifying, what I consider to be the finest pop song ever written, “There She Goes,” I say bring it on. The BBC reports that enigmatic frontman Lee Mavers has written a new album and joined up with Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell. […]
