The Replacements- Alex Chilton
This song is off The Replacements’ fifth album, Pleased to Meet Me, released in 1987. The song references singer Alex Chilton who was the lead singer of two bands, The Box Tops and Big Star. He also played guitar on The Replacements song Can’t Hardly Wait, also on the album Pleased to Meet Me.
The Box Tops are probably best known for the song The Letter (below).
Big Star’s In the Street may sound familiar too as it was covered by Cheap Trick and that cover was used as the theme for That 70′s Show.
The Replacements are playing at the Hollywood Palladium on 4/16.
Interpol- NYC
NYC is a single from Interpol’s debut album Turn on the Bright Lights, which was released in 2002. This video was created and directed by multimedia artist Doug Aitken.
Interpol are playing on the Friday (4/10) of Coachella this year. For the full lineup and set times for the first weekend, check here.
TV on the Radio- Province
Province is the second single from TV on the Radio’s 2006 album Return to Cookie Mountain and features David Bowie on backing vocals.
They are playing at the Hollywood Palladium on Friday 4/26.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – The Creator
This song is from All Souled Out, Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s 1991 EP, and is the only Pete Rock solo track on any of their albums. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) is the song they are most famous for but they were also on Run DMC’s 1993 hit Down With the King, which Rock also produced. He went on to produce and sing the chorus on Nas’ song The World is Yours, from Illmatic, and later worked on several projects with members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
If you haven’t heard this song before but it sounds familiar it may be because it was just used in Android’s handshake commercial.
Pete Rock is performing at the Echo tonight (3/26) with Slum Village.
Slutever- White Flag
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/26-3/29/15)-
Thursday
Substrate Gallery presents Factory of Light– a screening for House of Light’s new music video with performances by the band and other musical guests. $10 entrance gets you a pop art print and complimentary beer and wine
Pete Rock and Slum Village are playing at the Echo
Grand Central Market is having Game Night until 9pm with classic and new games
Thursday- Sunday
Zoe Scofield’s dance collaboration with visual artist Juniper Shuey, BeginAgain is at REDCAT. Scofield is also having a dance workshop on Saturday
Friday
Roky Erickson (of 60′s band The Thirteenth Floor Elevators) & The Hounds of Baskerville are at the Roxy
Terry Malts is playing at The Smell with Wild Moth
Saturday
Robert Williams will be signing his book at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park
Bernhard Willhelm will be guiding tours and discussing his exhibit at MOCA Pacific Design Center- RSVP here (free)
For Panache Spring Fling there are several bands playing at the Echo including Jacco Gardner, Dream Boys, Happyness, and a “secret guest”
Electric Dusk Drive-In downtown is showing Mean Girls
Saturday and Sunday
Burgerama is Burger Records’ two day festival at the Observatory in Santa Ana and the lineup is incredible- Ty Segall, Fidlar, Thee Oh Sees, Weezer, Ariel Pink, Cherry Glazerr, Black Lips, Roky Erickson, Tobacco, Bone Thugs and Harmony, White Fence and many, many, many more- $47.50 for one day or $90 for two- it’s well worth it to see all these great bands
Sunday
Slutever are one of four bands opening for Pile at Los Globos ($8)
Connected Fashion Festival Pop Up is at Hotel Figueroa’s pool downtown and is a combination shopping event and boozy brunch ($30 brunch +bottomless mimosas)
of Montreal- Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
This was the first single off Of Montreal’s album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer, released in 2007. The video was directed by The Brothers Chaps who are most famous for creating Homestar Runner, a Flash animated series that started in 2000 back in the days before YouTube and Facebook.
of Montreal are playing on Sunday (3/22) at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles.
Repo Man Trailer
Repo Man (1984), Alex Cox’s film about aliens, car repossession, and punk rock takes place in Los Angeles in the 1980′s and stars Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. It received good reviews at the time of its release and has since become a cult classic. The punk rock soundtrack is great too and includes tracks like the one below- Black Flag’s TV Party, as well as songs from Fear, Iggy Pop and Circle Jerks, who make an appearance in the film.
Alex Cox went on to make Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell (which features Joe Strummer and Courtney Love) .
Repo Man is playing at the Regent Theater on Sunday (3/15) with a performance afterwards by Harry Dean Stanton and a band that includes Harper Simon.
Stars- Your Ex-Lover is Dead
This song is from Canadian band Stars’ 2004 album Set Yourself on Fire. They are performing at the Fonda Theatre with Leisure Cruise on Friday 3/6.
Jon Brion- You Can Still Ruin My Day
Even if you have not heard of composer, musician and producer Jon Brion, chances are you probably have heard something he created or participated in creating. He has produced albums for a huge list of artists including Best Coast, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Spoon, and of Montreal. He also co-produced Kanye West’s Late Registration.
Brion also composed the scores and created original music for a number of films including Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ParaNorman, and Synecdoche.
This Friday (2/27) he is playing original music and covers at Largo