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.
Apr 022015
Mar 262015
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.
Mar 242015
Mini Mansions- Death is a Girl
Tonight (3/24) Mini Mansions are signing their new album The Great Pretenders and performing a live set at Amoeba Records Hollywood (and Amoeba San Francisco on 3/27). They also just released a video for their song Vertigo which features Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.
Mar 192015
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.
Mar 122015
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.
Mar 052015
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.
Feb 262015
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
Feb 192015
N.W.A.- Express Yourself
This song is from the 1988 album Straight Outta Compton and is probably N.W.A.’s most radio friendly song. It also includes a lyric by Dr. Dre in which he claims to not do drugs, a position that had probably changed by 1992 when he released his solo album The Chronic. Tone Lōc, who had a number one album in 1989 (when this video was made) with singles Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina, also makes an appearance in the video. Dr. Dre turned 50 this week, on 2/18.
Feb 122015
Beck- Beercan
This song is off of Beck’s 1994 platinum album Mellow Gold and features samples from a Care Bears album and Melvins song “Hog Leg”.
Feb 052015
Dengue Fever- Seeing Hands
Dengue Fever was formed by two brothers, Ethan and Zac Holtzman, along with saxophonist, David Ralicke, drummer Paul Dreux Smith, and bassist, Senon Williams in Los Angeles in 2002. They soon found Chhom Nimol, who is originally from Cambodia, to be their lead singer. The band’s earlier work contained lyrics that were entirely in Khmer and many of the songs were covers of 1960s Cambodian rock songs. This song is off their third album, Venus on Earth (2008), which was the first to include songs in English.
They are playing on Thursday (2/5) at the Echoplex