Sister Mantos, "Tough Love or the Fands of Hate"
New tunes in the INCHES column! Fantastic fuchsia wax was photographed! A free song offered up for the jeep! Top ten vinyl sales chart shared by Vacation Vinyl! Plus, music critique-ry! Get over there already!
Posted in album reviews, columns, LA Weekly, photography
Tagged DJ culture, free music, Manimal Vinyl, MP3s, music crit, mutant disco, Sister Mantos, vinyl
Mini Mansions
New tunes in the INCHES column! Get over there already!
Posted in album reviews, LA Weekly, photography
Tagged Blondie, Los Angeles, Mini Mansions, MP3, MP3s, vinyl
The Franks, 'Duh' EP
New tunes in the INCHES column! Get over there already!
Posted in album reviews, columns, LA Weekly, photography
Tagged garage-punk, Hit City USA, Los Angeles, MP3s, Superhumanoids, The Franks, vinyl
A small bear confronts the wilds. (Hanna Dryland Shapiro)
Okay, side-project may not be entirely accurate considering Will Wiesenfeld founded Baths last September, but while the fruits of that better-known project bounce around the blogosphere, it’s a good time to dig up a little more of the 21-year-old Valley-dweller’s past.
Wiesenfeld also makes music as Geotic, and it’s beautiful stuff. Far more minimal, often ambient, though decidedly not drone-y, these songs are excellent for headphones, lazy afternoons and night driving. And best of all, they’re entirely free. Download Geotic music here. We recommend you start with the Eyes LP and the “Waterway” single.
Tagged ambient music, anticon., Baths, Chatsworth, free music, Geotic, Los Angeles, MP3s, Will Wiesenfeld
The origin of Jeans Wilder.
Quick bloggy bits from around the L.A. underground (and up). Share ‘em.
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
* “I recorded this song in my room, by myself, over the course of a two or three day cocaine and OxyContin binge at the beginning of the year.” – Jeans Wilder
Tagged 3-D, Alpha Pup, anticon., beat music, Beck, Best Coast, bigfoot, Black Moth Super Rainbow, chillwave, cocaine, Dangerbird Records, downloads, exclusive, forestry, free music, Jeans Wilder, Le Switch, Les Blanks, Los Angeles, MP3s, music news, OxyContin, Record Store Day, San Diego, Sasquatch, Silver Lake, Sweatson Klank, Take, The Glitch Mob, The One AM Radio, Tobacco, vinyl
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
Grrr...
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
Durlin Lurt's 'Him Jenson'
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
It’s true. Four more primes slabs of virgin wax from L.A.’s extremely fertile independent music scene. Among this week’s crop are my favorite release of the year, the Dublab super-project Secondhand Sureshots, some rabid avant blues courtesy of Oxbow (Hydra Head’s return to the column!), another dreamy psych offering from the kids at Not Not Fun (Topaz Rags), and some post-rock tastiness from Red Sparowes (on Sargent House).
Oxbow, 'Songs For The French'
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Tagged Daedelus, DJ culture, Dublab, Hydra Head, indie music, J.Rocc, Kutmah, Los Angeles, MP3s, music crit, Nobody, Not Not Fun, Oxbow, Ras G, Red Sparowes, Sargent House, Secondhand Sureshots, Stones Throw, Topaz Rags, Vacation Vinyl, vinyl
The latest edition of INCHES is up! Click here to read reviews of records by Lambo (AutoTune funk on Stones Throw), The Marshmallow Ghosts (featuring members of Black Moth Super Rainbow and The Appleseed Cast), The Pink Noise (Canuck punk on Kill Shaman Records), and Bipolar Bear (local crew whose latest is on Mexican Summer). Good, free tunes. Good, free photos. Good, free words. You’ll like it. Check out older installments here.
Lambo's "Computer Bagel"
INCHES012 is here! Find out what it’s all about for yourself. You won’t be sorry.
No Age's "Losing Feeling"
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Tagged Alex Ebert, anticon., DJ culture, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Fake Four Inc., Ima Robot, INCHES, MP3s, No Age, Rhino Records, Skyrider, Sole, Sub Pop, Talking Heads, Tobacco, vinyl
