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The BOTS – ” All I Really Really Want “

Posted: January 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Mikaiah Leh, one half of the Los Angeles duo the Bots.and the other half of the Bots, his brother, Anaiah, The Bots Mikaiah is only 19 and Anaiah didn’t celebrate his 16th birthday until last Thursday,

Seriousness isn’t the defining feature of the Bots anyway. On stage, they interrupt each other, the extravagantly Afro’d Anaiah cutting into his older brother’s monologues; they flail around; Mikaiah apologises for the keyboard he’s set off at the beginning of one song going horrendously out of tune, then corpses. And, most of all, they throw out thrilling, brief, violent bursts of noise, veering from snotty hardcore to yelping blues to the occasional ballad, including one about Anaiah that Mikaiah worries might sound like a love song to his brother: here’s that rarity, the garage rock duo comprised not of po-faced rock historians but two kids having fun.

The Bots’s love of music came from their dad, a computer technician, although both refer to him performing “surveillance” work. “He knows good music,” Mikaiah says. “He used to work for [concert promoters] Golden Voice and he saw proper rock bands back in the day. We kinda learned everything from him, every genre of music really. He’s got great taste in everything. He’s a big hipster now – he’s really into indie music.”

BLACK ENGLISH with LAURA BURHENN – ” Suzanne ” Leonard Cohen Cover

Posted: January 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Los Angeles Band  Black English with Laura Burhenn of the Mynabirds covering “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen

BLACK ENGLISH – ” Stay With Me “

Posted: January 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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For a six-piece they don’t make a huge sound on record (live they’re a different proposition), preferring a more considered approach that allows the emotion in the songs to pour out of the speakers and envelop the listener and the huge hooks in most of the tracks to pull you in. They manage that fine trick of sounding intimate, like they’re addressing you personally, whilst the songs could fill big arenas if you turn the guitars and drums up.

NO released their debut album “El Prado” in February. The album was originally released when the band was known as NO, but during the year they changed their name to Black English due to confusion with other bands using the same name.

GIRLPOOL – ” Plants and Worms “

Posted: December 30, 2014 in MUSIC
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Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad are teenage friends from Los Angeles who make fuzzy punk lo-Fi Songs styled songs, they write catchy critiques about society and its cultural ills, Friends throughout the truly tough part of life—high school—Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker are like the baddest girls in school, screaming their girly rage through the hallways. But the duo isn’t cutting class just to frolic in the fun and play guitar. No, they have a message and they’ll sing it loud and banging. On their self-titled debut EP, Girlpool tackles themes from slut shaming and self expression to Saturday night and drunk boys. It’s girl power at its unwavering height—difficult and fun. Tividad and Tucker throw a party, lace their boots and stomp their melodies into our brains. And they do it all without a drummer

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DENIS WILSON – ” Died 31 Years Ago Today ” December 28th 1983

Posted: December 28, 2014 in MUSIC
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It was 31 years ago today, that the world lost Dennis Wilson. Dennis was the only member of The Beach Boys who was a surfer. To many, Dennis was the perfect example of the Southern California surfing lifestyle.
Dennis Wilson was the son of Audree Neva (née Korthof) and Murry Gage Wilson. He spent his family years with his brothers and parents in Hawthorne, California. Dennis’ role in the family dynamic, which he himself acknowledged, was that of the black sheep. Though anxiety-filled and aggressive at times, he was also sensitive and generous. Possessed with an abundance of physical energy and a combative nature, Dennis often refused to participate in family singalongs, and likewise avoided vocalizing on the early recordings that Brian made on a portable tape recorder, but Dennis would sing with his brothers late at night in their shared bedroom on a song, Brian later recalled as “our special one we’d sing,” titled “Come Down, Come Down from the Ivory Tower.”
Wilson released his debut solo album Pacific Ocean Blue in 1977. His collaborators on the album included Daryl Dragon (the ‘Captain’ of Captain & Tennille) and Gregg Jakobson. The album peaked at No. 96 in the U.S. and sold around 300,000 copies, matching that year’s Beach Boys album Love You. Pacific Ocean Blue performed well critically and continues to maintain a cult following. Wilson’s trademark gravelly and melancholy vocals resonate throughout the work. The expanded Sony Legacy edition was voted the 2008 Reissue of the Year in both Rolling Stone and Mojo magazines.Succeeding years saw Wilson battling alcohol abuse. Smoking had taken a toll on his voice, although the resultant gravelly effect helped define him as a singer. On December 28, 1983, shortly after his 39th birthday, Wilson drowned at Marina Del Rey, after drinking all day and diving in the afternoon to recover items he had thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years prior.

Dennis Wilson‘s body was buried at sea off the California coast (33°53.9′N 118°38.8′W) by the U.S. Coast Guard on January 4, 1984. His song “Farewell My Friend” was played at the funeral. As non-veterans of the Coast Guard and Navy are not allowed to be buried at sea unless cremated, Dennis’ burial was possible due to the intervention of President Reagan

LOCAL NATIVES – ” You and I “

Posted: December 24, 2014 in MUSIC
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I caught Local Natives four maybe five times last year and they played wonderous sets the band seemed to be in overdrive and performances were just incredible, great musicians with greater songs.

Local Natives (previously known as Cavil at Rest) is an indie rock band based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA. Their debut album, “Gorilla Manor, was first released in the UK in November 2009,  Their sound has been described as “afro-pop influenced guitars with hyperactive drumming and hooky three-part harmonies”. also described their style as psych folk, or new fangled folk.

At Lollapalooza the band announced that they built a new studio and are working on completing their second full length album, “Hummingbird“, which was released January 2013. produced by Aaron Dessner of The National, and though it has departed from the “battle-cry urgency” of Gorilla Manor, singer/guitarist Taylor Rice doesn’t look at ‘Hummingbird’ as a darker album pointing out moments of optimism, and attributing the altered subject matter to the changes and emotions that have come in the last few years since their debut.

In August of 2014, at a concert in Salt Lake City, Utah, as part of the Twilight Concert Series, the band announced that they had already begun work on their third studio album.

 

GIRLPOOL – ” Alone At The Show “

Posted: December 23, 2014 in MUSIC
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It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since Girlpool’s track “Jane”. Since then, Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad have taken the world by storm – they’ve toured the coasts and Europe, opened for Jenny Lewis, Bratty and wild, the Los Angeles duo is relentless. Their voices challenge each other in a back-and-forth battle of scream and song, separately unique and together defiant. It’s a magnetic combination that’s impossible to ignore. Tividad and Tucker throw a party, lace their boots and stomp their melodies into our brains. And they do it all without a drummer

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Their new song, “Alone at the Show”, which happens to be the first song on THE LE SIGH Vol. II.  album Clocking in at a little under two minutes, the song is an ode to unrequited crushes and of course, being alone at shows.  please check out their debut mini album a pure gem and one of my favourites of the year

The SEEDS – ” Singles A’s and B’s 1965-1970 “

Posted: December 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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The Seeds were an American Psychedelia Rock Band. The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are considered one of the pioneers of punk rock

This Los Angeles band stretched the pummeling minimalism of its signature mantra “Pushin’ Too Hard” — cut in September of ’65, issued twice on 45, finally a Top 40 single in February, 1967 — over nearly a dozen hot, terse singles. The group made uneven albums but excelled in the concise, magnetic repetition of “Out of the Question” (1965) and “Satisfy You” (1968). This set follows singer-leader Sky Saxon as he loses more and more of the plot, along with the Seeds‘ original lineup, while cutting odd, harder rock like 1969’s “Wild Blood,” which sounds like the kind of crusty mischief Iggy Pop would later get up to on Kill City.

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AMEN DUNES – ” Love ” Best Albums Of 2014

Posted: December 20, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This is one of those albums that comes out of a songwriter meandering in lo-fi productions for years and finally writing “the album” where all the diamonds in the fuzzy rough from before come through.
While the previous Amen Dunes records have all been largely improvisational first-take affairs, recorded in a matter of weeks at most, this full-length album “Love” is the product of close to a year and a half of continuous work by Damon McMahon. Unlike McMahon’s earlier Amen Dunes recordings, which were almost always a solo affair, the music on Love was performed by a variety of musicians, including his longtime collaborators Jordi Wheeler on guitar and piano, and Parker Kindred on drums.

McMahon chose to hold the main recording sessions for “Love” in Montreal with Dave Bryant and Efrim Menuck of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. In addition to recording the sessions that McMahon produced, members of Godspeed also played on several of the songs. So did saxophonist Colin Stetson and Elias Bender-Ronnenfelt of Iceage, who duets with McMahon on two tracks.

This project has always seen McMahon guided by traditional song and sound, but Love is the first work in which this clearly shines through. The result is definitively the most substantial Amen Dunes record to date. These are elemental songs about time, love and memory, as much about the listener as they are about the writer: pure, open, and beautiful.
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DALTON – ” Only Names “

Posted: December 12, 2014 in MUSIC
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Nate Harar was born in Washington but now based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. His debut song as Dalton is in the style of New York indie rock like Grizzly Bear or Wild Nothing, With patient rhythm and background buzzing guitars and Harar searching lyrics.

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