Person To Person is the album I’d been waiting to hear from Foreign Born since first catching their live show in Echo Park three years ago. Entering the club cold, having never heard of the band, I left two hours later a fan. The second time I saw them I was the house DJ for [...]
Heads up. Magnolia Electric Co. has a new album out, Josephine, their first since 2006′s Fading Trails. Tuesday, July 28th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Jason Molina and Co. with guests The Donkeys and Old Californio at The Echo in Echo Park, L.A. We have several pairs of tickets for AD readers. To land yourself a pair, [...]
If I had an extra minute to spare I would seriously consider starting another blog focused strictly on covering the growing number of on-point reissue labels that have popped up the past several years. One of these, a front-runner I must feature on AD close to six times a year, is the Chicago based Numero [...]
Back here on the L.A. homefront — multi-lingual afro-pop enthusiasts Fool’s Gold, who have signed with Los Angeles based IAMSOUND Records, just released “Surprise Hotel” the first single from their full-length debut due out this September. If you’re local and did not catch one of their appearances at the Echo in April, you may want [...]
Truth be told, I haven’t been on a real Fela kick for several years now, but I think that is about to change…it is summertime after all. Friday evening a friend, rifling through cds in his car, introduced me to the Koola Lobitos 1969 Los Angeles Sessions which, apparently, were semi-rare; as in out-of-print. Though, [...]
Ahoy, J. Neas here. AD is heading to the Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park in Chicago next weekend. I’ll be uploading recaps of each day’s festivities on AD as well as updating my personal Twitter account on a frequent basis. No promises that some of those tweets won’t be me grumbling about wanting a [...]
It has to be intimidating – building a legacy. The shadow that Uncle Tupelo has cast across the alt.country genre for the past 20 years is an enormous one, no matter what your opinion about their music. It’s Jay Farrar who seems to have lived most in the wake of his former band, at least [...]
It’s hot out there today — this should help. I happened upon this cover of the Ronettes “Be My Baby” a couple of weeks ago via the power of…wait for it…twitter. Chris, from GvsB, left a tweet (yeah, I hate that word) directing the world to the folks over at Mad Decent who had posted [...]
“If you build it, they will come,” or in the case of Yo La Tengo, if they record it I will most likely eventually get around to listening to it — whatever the it may be. In this case, the it in question is a collection of tracks the group scored for various films over [...]
(Several months ago Jeff Leven, whose byline you’ll recognize if you’re a Paste reader, and I were discussing music and that of young fandom. Leven told me a great story, from his college days in the ’90s, related to Wilco, the power of an album, meeting your idols…and the days of fax machines. With ‘Wilco [...]
