The Morning Benders / photo by David Greenwald
Here are my L.A. concert recommendations, short and sweet, for the week. Only things I actually would like to see. On days with multiple listings, they’re in descending order of priority. Click below to add the ongoing calendar to your Google Calendar, iCal, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
A classic take on the Wes Andy-endorsed ’60s waltz. Here’s the (complete) Top of the Pops version. Related: is La Blogotheque the new Top of the Pops?
Skip to :51 for the good stuff. The Warm Hardies’ debut EP is due as soon as they decide to put it on the Internet, as far as I can tell; mega-jam “Fast and Heavy” is below.
You know when writers make Kate Bush comparisons and they’re lazy and irritating and you don’t even bother to download the track? Maybe don’t read anything else about Porcelain Raft. On the stormy, suffused “Amateur’s Feeling,” Mauro Remiddi’s project is running up that hill directly to Hounds of Love as produced by the Radio Dept., all crackling drum machines and spider-spun melodies. The band just signed to the ever-venerable Secretly Canadian; look for a sophomore album later this year.
Jens has promised us an album and an EP this year, and now this, from his blog: “As I am listening to the final mixes for a new EP in the first rays of sunshine…”
I’m tearing my hair out over here.
Previously: New Music: Jens Lekman – ‘Every Little Hair Knows Your Name,’ ‘Cowboy Boots’ | Jens Lekman’s new album: mixed, maybe?
Photo by David Greenwald
“You’re the one for me,” Jane Herships sings on “I’ll Go In Your Boat,” her voice trembling with emotion. Even if she didn’t close the song with the dagger in the heart of “maybe you can come around sometime,” there’s no mistaking the message. The song, a bedroom recording from a set of them Herships has dubbed The Home Record, is clothed in soft, wistful folk fabrics, more Mazzy Star than She & Him. But where do you go to, my lovely?
A little late to the party on this one, but here’s another jam from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., whose new album, It’s a Corporate World, is like their wonderful EP only more so. The band remains one of ’10/’11 indie rock’s brightest new lights — a minute into “Morning Thought” and you can practically see the Flaming Lips and the Beta Band nodding approvingly from the studio next door. The album’s due today on Quite Scientific.
Jens Lekman / by David Greenwald
Fun:
* Guest mixtape: Thunder & Lightning’s Brent Katz
* Elliott Smith – Performances from a Basement on the Hill
Jams/Reviews:
* Premiere: Gabe Hascall – “Love It All”
* The Hood Internet – “Kaputting It Up” (Destroyer x Raekwon)
* Swimclub – Funhouse for Friends
* Tyler, the Creator – Goblin
* Dream Diary – You Are The Beat
* Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
* Elephant Parade – Home
* Rose Melberg – Homemade Ship (Remix)
* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “In This Home On Ice” (2005)
* The Middle East – “Hunger Song”
* Bos Angeles – “Beach Slalom”
* Amanda Mair – “House”
* Wake Up Lucid – “Sugar”
Bootlegs:
* Bootlegs: Beulah at KCRW, 9.25.01
Videos:
* Michael Showalter, the indie-est of all rockers
* Kreayshawn – “Gucci Gucci”
* Sondre Lerche – “Private Caller”
* Frank Ocean – “Acura Integurl”
* St. Vincent covers Big Black’s ‘Kerosene’
* tUnE-yArDs – “You Yes You” (Yours Truly session)
* Lia Ices – “Grown Unknown”
* Herman Dune – “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
* Priscilla Ahn and Charlie Wadhams – ‘I Don’t Have Time To Be In Love’
News:
* Jens Lekman’s new album: mixed, maybe?
* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce Hysterical
* Foreign Leisure Records is reissuing Maritime’s We, the Vehicles
* Meet Sally Seltmann’s new band, Seeker Lover Keeper
* Searching for Elliott Smith debuts in L.A. this week
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* Odd Future: Enough already
