It’s going to be a lot easier to like the Like this time around. When the band emerged as teenage scene darlings in the early part of last decade, it was too much too fast – no matter how they tried (and from their occasional displays of diva-ism, it wasn’t very hard), they couldn’t shuck […]
Maybe it had something to do with Hole’s performance on Friday, but a thunderstorm moved through Austin in the early hours of Saturday morning, sending temperatures plummeting and kicking up a nasty north wind that had more bite than any guitarist I saw all week. SXSW attendees on Saturday scrambled for their winter clothes, if […]
Filmed in some parking lots, and locales other than parking lots, here’s Simon Cardoza’s video for Manhatan Murder Mystery’s “Parking Lot.” The song is an urgent post-punk burner off the band’s “Skull” EP. Thrash accordingly. ||| Live: The arrival of this video led me to the discovery of an event Sunday that was not on […]
[Today: Happy birthday to Mike Patton. Tonight: Some nifty little shows in the neighborhood.] Speaking of birthdays, Michael Runion [pictured] is celebrating today. The Jenny Lewis/Elected sideman and solo artist is playing a Bootleg Theater show along with a bunch of his musical co-conspirators, including Rilo Kiley drummer (and now solo artist) Jason Boesel and […]
The Like have (finally) resurfaced. It’s been four years this week since the then-trio, not yet out of their teens, released “Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?” – a debut album that was a good start for a young band but probably out of its league on a major label. Now as a four-piece, the […]
[Once around the weekend, quickly and briefly, as we work toward Perry Farrell’s big 50th birthday on Sunday …] Tonight: Hard-touring Cold War Kids have just set off on a monthlong U.S. jaunt that brings them to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A., with support from fellow Long Beachers Crystal Antlers. (Side note: On April […]
[A taker of notes shares some:] ”¢ There they are: Except for a couple late-2008 shows, we haven’t heard much from the Like recently – unless you like to pore over the Cobrasnake’s photo galleries. But the L.A. trio is surfacing on the high-profile compilation album, “War Child Heroes,” a benefit for children affected by […]
