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 […]
Admiral Radley’s debut album “I Heart California” is out today digitally, and the band – a collaboration between Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy and Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray of Earlimart – plays the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum next Thursday, July 8. I talked to the principals […]
The title track to Admiral Radley’s debut album is called “I Heart California,” and it’s too bad the band couldn’t have put a winking emoticon after it. Because the California of Ad Rad – the new quartet featuring Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray of Earlimart and Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy – is […]
My assignment for SPIN.com kept me tied up at the SPIN 25 party at Stubb’s all afternoon for nonstop music capped by Hole’s first North American concert in more than a decade. The highlight of the support bands that day was the indoors set from Harlem [above], whose crackling garage rock made me wish I […]
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 […]
The Henry Clay People, whose classic rock-on-a-bender has won a large following in L.A., are signing to TBD Records, a subsidiary of ATO and the home to such bands as Radiohead, White Rabbits and Other Lives. The foursome’s new album, “Somewhere on the Golden Coast,” will be released in June in conjunction with the Ship […]
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, […]
[Here’s the second installment from the Henry Clay People – Joey and Andy Siara, Jonathan Price and Mike Hopkins, along with tour manager Dane Sundseth – who are on their first major tour of the U.S., with the Airborne Toxic Event and Rademacher. While Joey authored the first chapter, this time kid brother Andy weighs […]
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 […]
Singer-songwriter Jason Lytle is close to signing a deal with Epitaph imprint Anti-, sources say. No official word from the label yet, but it’s been a little more than three years since Lytle dissolved the 13-year-old indie-pop quintet Grandaddy and fled his native Modesto. Now happily ensconced in “Somewheres, Montana” (says his MySpace page), Lytle […]
