The first single off of Gal Pals’ debut LP “Velvet Rut” available 2/24/2015
GAL PALS are Jillian Talley (drums) and Lauren Mikus (guitar), a Los Angeles-via-Texas duo aiming to create pop gold on their self-titled, debut full-length album due out this fall. GAL PALS released two 7” singles in 2013, touring Texas, playing SXSW and garnering some excellent praise from media. Bleach said, “Gal Pals sound of spunk, of yellow-filtered memories, and the desperate need of an attitude adjustment.” In early 2014, Talley and Mikus packed up their bags and headed out west with their record in hand. The duo plan to spend much of the fall on the road.
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GAL PALS – ” Ex Marionette “
Posted: February 13, 2015 in MUSICTags: Gal Pals. Velvet Rut, Los Angeles, Texas
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GAL PALS – ” Do You Ever “
Posted: February 13, 2015 in MUSICTags: Gal Pals, Los Angeles, Velvet Rut
This L.A.-via-Texas garage-pop duo Gal Pals have an album called “Velvet Rut” coming out in a couple of weeks, and we’ve already posted the catchy-as-hell “Here’s To The Gals.” Their new video for the almost-as-catchy jangle-shimmer “Do You Ever?” seems to mostly consist of video that the Gal Pals shot themselves, filming each other as they load into poolside spaces and DIY haunts. They look like they’re having fun, and more importantly, they look like they really like each other, which I guess is the whole point of the band name.
Gal Pals are an L.A.-based, Texas-reared duo who make shimmering, charged-up indie-pop that walks the line between pop-punk and old-school girl group music. It’s simple and straightforward and tuneful, and as you’ve probably guessed from all that, it’s extremely easy music to like. This group might not exactly bring anything new to the table, but that doesn’t make “Here’s To The Gals,” the giddy statement of intent from their debut album Velvet Rut, any less fun.
SLUTEVER – ” Smother Me “
Posted: February 13, 2015 in MUSICTags: Almost Famous, Los Angeles, Slutever
A West Coast pair of “teen girl culture” enthusiasts, Rachel Gagliardi and Nicole Snyder specialize in feedback-filled punk anthems that get the blood boiling. With the band Sounds Like: If Girlpool hit the distortion pedal and added a drummer, or if X-Ray Spex reunited and moved to present-day East Los Angeles.
Let Slutever “Smother” you with their combative EP opener. The forthcoming six-song set, titled “Almost Famous”, will drop on February 17th.
GAL PALS – ” Here’s To The Gals “
Posted: February 12, 2015 in MUSICTags: Gal Pals, Garage Rock, Los Angeles, Paper Cup Music, Velvet Rut
The L.A.-via-Texas garage-pop duo Gal Pals have an album called “Velvet Rut” coming out in a couple of weeks, and here is the catchy-as-hell “Here’s To The Gals.” They look like they’re having fun, and more importantly, they look like they really like each other, which I guess is the whole point of the band name.
GUY BLAKESLEE – ” Smile “
Posted: February 4, 2015 in MUSICTags: Guy Blakeslee, Los Angeles, Orphelia Slowly, The Entrance Band
Guy Blakeslee is best known for fronting LA psych-rock trio the Entrance Band (formerly Entrance), but he released his first solo album in a decade, “Ophelia Slowly”, last summer. He shares a Vice Cooler-directed video for the churning, midtempo track “Smile On.” Offering a markedly rawer, more stripped-down sound than the dense rock soundscapes of the Entrance Band, on “Smile On” Blakeslee yelps over twangy acoustic and electric guitar lines with a simple drum and shaker scheme low in the mix. The visuals are somewhat haunting early, but they end on a brighter note that matches the triumphant feel of the song. In black-and-white rewind, the video opens at Blakeslee’s fictional funeral with dark, black imagery, and progressively brightens, concluding with Guy Blakeslee in a white suit and shirt basking in bright light, comfortable with his impending death.
thanks to Stereogum
PATTI SMITH – ” Live at the Ace Hotel ” 29th January 2015
Posted: February 2, 2015 in MUSICTags: Live at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, Patti Smith
Looking out from the stage of the beautiful, impressive Moorish palace that is downtown Los Angeles’ Theater at The Ace Hotel, Patti Smith told a sold-out crowd on Jan. 29th that the beautifully renovated room was built in 1927 with “belief, hope, and rebellious ambition.” She could have just as well been describing her own career.
In the nearly 40 years since the release of her landmark debut album, “Horses”, Patti Smith has been a punky hellion, a declamatory poet, rabble rousing rocker, master elegy deliverer and comic/philosopher. But the slow simmer of Thursday night’s performance showcased the now 68-year-old grandmother’s longest-lived role: fan.
She dedicated songs to Dr. Who’s David Tennant (the extra-terrestrial fantasy “Distant Fingers”), Johnny Depp (“Pissin In The River”), her new grandson Frederick (a lovingly sung cover of John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy”), and covering Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,. When she brings out former Black Crowe Rich Robinson to perform Bob Dylan’s “Time Passes Slowly,” she sat cross-legged off to the side, smiling broadly and mouthing the words. Her fine four-piece band — including original Patti Smith Group members Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, long-time bassist Tony Shanahan and recent recruit Jack Petruzzelli — showed off their fandom, dedicating their covers of Love’s “My Little Red Book” and “7 & 7 Is” to the late Kim Fowley and Elektra Records founder Jac Holtzman.)
While this performance couldn’t match the headlong, incantatory intensity of that made Smith a jaw-dropping, life-changing performer, it managed to build to a powerful climax. The final third of the nearly two-hour-long show was given over to “Gandhi” An encore of the single chord vamp of “Banga” was accompanied by a red-haired young woman Smith pulled from the pit, adding guitar. “People Have The Power” and “Gloria,” which ended with Smith standing on a monitor, leaning out into the crowd and leading them in the call-and-response, fist-pumping chorus: “Don’t be afraid, you are a free people.”
In other words: Smith delivered a fierce, life-affirming show, and a reminder that as long as she continues to write, record and perform, the idea of rock and roll as a transformative, communal art lives on.
Set List:
Dancing Barefoot
Redondo Beach
Pumping (My Heart)
Distant Fingers
Beautiful Boy (John Lennon cover)
Time Passes Slowly (Bob Dylan cover)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
My Little Red Book (written by Bacharach/David, as performed by Love)
7 & 7 Is (Love cover)
Ain’t It Strange
Because The Night
Pissing In The River
Gandhi
Encore:
Banga
People Got The Power
Gloria (In Excelcis Deo)
LORD HURON – ” The Night We Met “
Posted: January 30, 2015 in MUSICTags: Ben Schneider, Lord Huron, Los Angeles, Strange Trails
Last week, Lord Huron — the L.A.-based band helmed by native Michigander Ben Schneider — released a short teaser video (but precious little other info) for their new album “Strange Trails.” Schneider and company won hearts and minds with the cinematic folk music on their Western-flavored debut “Lonesome Dreams” in 2012, but beyond the teaser and some recently posted single artwork, Lord Huron had been playing it close to the vest. Today, however, the band unveiled a full song from the new album; “The Night We Met” is a shimmering ballad of regret in which Schneider sings “Don’t know what I’m supposed to do / Haunted by the ghost of you.” It’s almost too beautiful Meanwhile, there’s still no date announced for the release of “Strange Trails.”.
COLLEEN GREEN – ” TV Is My Friend “
Posted: January 29, 2015 in MUSICTags: California, Colleen Green, Hardly Art Records, Los Angeles
Second mp3 single from Colleen Green’s 2015 album “I Want to Grow Up” out 2/24/15 on Hardly Art records. imagine someone Like Belinda Carlisle fronting The Ramones.” .A Massachusetts native turned Los Angeleno, Colleen Green worships the Descendents , worries about maturity and matters of the heart, and, up to now, has dealt in solo DIY recordings. The forthcoming “I Want to Grow Up” (the 30-year-old’s newest album and second for Hardly Art) marks a shift in technique, having come together with help from a full band, including JEFF the Brotherhood’s Jake Orrall and Diarrhea Planet‘s Casey Weissbuch. Due out February 24th, the ten-track set is replete with the sorts of sticky, lovesick melodies.
GIRLPOOL – ” Chinatown “
Posted: January 27, 2015 in MUSICTags: Chinatown, Cleo Tucker, Girlpool, Harmony Tividad, Los Angeles, Philadelphia
When Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker harmonize, it’s like a lightning bolt to the gut. As Girlpool, the two keep the instrumentation spare — just an electric guitar and bass — while infusing their songs with a striking confidence that knows we’re all failures, or at least trying not to fail so often. So in “Chinatown” when they sing, “And if I told you I loved you, would you take it the wrong way?” it’s raw and vulnerable, taking stock of a painfully awkward situation with open eyes. After a self-titled cassette (recently reissued on vinyl) and a move from L.A. to Philadelphia, Girlpool is putting “Chinatown” on a forthcoming 7″single. Even in such a short period of time, there’s growth here in the vocal phrasing and pacing, not to mention production that rounds out the trebly tinniness. the cheap guitar twang remains; it’s an intimate quality shared in this video, homemade videos with friends and fellow musicians. “Chinatown” comes out March 24th on Wichita Recordings, featuring a cover of Radiator Hospital’s “Cut Your Bangs” on the B-side.
L.A WITCH – ” Get Lost “
Posted: January 27, 2015 in MUSICTags: L.A Witch, Los Angeles, Psych Punk Garage
L.A Witch framed by the bone-rattling bass schisms of ‘Get Lost’ and ‘You Love Nothing’, its most sophisticated track Heart Of Darkness’ is exactly that, a death-blackened organ beating smack in the middle cavity. L.A Witch imagine Kim Deal influenced by Nirvana (rather than the other way around with images of Gun Club ‘Fire Of Love’ era and early X” recalls the early ragged glory of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club or the Black Angels Haunted surf rock, road trip blues and 60’s-sounding psychedelia — The Band are SADE – VOX + GUITAR ,IRITA – BASS + ORGAN ,CRYSTAL – DRUMS
The Fat Angel Sings 