It’s taken some time, but The Walkmen seem to have hit their stride. On their sixth album Lisbon, they’ve continued to hone a sound they’ve been working towards for the past couple of records. The result is an impressive set of new songs. Read more…
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Friday, December 31st
Seaholm Power Plant
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This is hands down the most awesome NYE celebration going down ATX wide tonight!
They’ve turned the Seaholm power plant into a virtual space station, and it’s the very last NYE bash at the old girl, so send her out right.
NASA is DJSqueak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, who met in Sao Paulo and bonded over a mutual love and appreciation of rare brazilian soul and funk. They create crazy unique musical landscapes that mesh unlikely genres and artists together into a beautiful flow. Their debut album The Spirit of Apollo has a very impressive who’s who list of collaborations ranging from Nick of The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s to M.I.A to Ghostface Killah.
Rueben Wu is the original founding member of the amazingness that is electro-new wave group Ladytron. Infectious pop beats married faithfully to vintage sweat dripping analogue. I’m sure he’ll rep their sound well tonight. It says on the official flyer, ‘Rueben Wue & more TBA’ , so expect some pleasing surprises.
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Friday, December 31st
Red 7
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The Adolescents have been hardcore punk-rocking it since the ’80’s, and they definitely know how to do it well. Made up of members of Agent Orange and Social Distortion, they’ve been a ’supergroup’ from the beginning. Like most bands who grab that title, there have been a million break ups, makeups, and shakeups in the bands history, but they’ve been doing it steady since ‘01 and will soon have a new album for listener consumption in the new year. This is sure to be a good time! For those old enough to hit the bar and you young ones too since it’s listed as an all ages show. A loud, sweaty, moshin’, rockin’ way to tell ‘10 to suck it and give a big fuck ya to ‘11. (Did I make that punk rock enough for this post?)
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The latest release from Scottish indie balladeers Belle and Sebastian offers nothing shockingly new, but it avoids the abundant clichés surrounding its subject matter. Write About Love is a mellow, likable album about “love in any form, any tense, as long as it makes sense,” as the band announces in the album’s title track. Read more…
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The case still isn’t close. It’s recently been heard that lawyers representing Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s doctor at the time of his death are claiming that it may have been suicide that caused his demise.
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This weekend, in celebration of the incoming new year, The Flaming Lips will be performing live for a special NYE streaming, followed by a performance from Gorgol Bordello on January 1st for a holiday special brought to you by Rolling Stone.
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As of today, the debut music video was leaked for the song “Monster”, featuring Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Rick Ross. Peep the video after the jump.
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The LA Record Holiday Party on December 17 was a yuletide feast of various bands hiding in every corner of the Bedrock Studios in Echo Park. Upstairs, holiday party-goers crammed into a small room to catch He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister, self-described as a “toe tappin’, tap dancing, hip shaking, hand clappin’, tambourine jangling, foot stompin’, cello bowin’, guitar strummin’, sing along family band.” Read more…
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Bloc Party, who have been on hiatus since mid-2009 have gotten together for a Christmas picture that can be found on their Twitter. The picture is captioned “Merry Christmas from the Bloc.” Read more…
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After a 2007 comeback, Finch have decided to call it quits yet again. This time, they will be releasing a two song farewell EP. Read more…
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