Poor Boy Could Use A Break

Friday, February 10, 2006

Seriously, we almost forgot about this thing. Thanks for your concerned letters of our whereabouts, but according to focus groups you needed a break from us. So, yeah, some shows... Stopped by the SLL for Ferraby Lionheart's opening set. Holy goodness. We all know Ferraby from Telecast, one of the best bands on planet earth, but this new solo tryout is just damn brilliant itself -- so brilliant we had to see him again at the Prospector and the Echo. Had to miss out on Space Mtn that night to get over to The Smell for Nedelle, Emma Zunz, Foot Foot, and Feast. Really a great lineup of innovative lo-fi performers but the draw for us to come out for this was Seattle-based avant-noire duo Emma Zunz who may remind you of Azure Ray circa Little Red Rocket, but a tad more ominous and dissonant. Nedelle did a cover The Marvelettes' "The Hunter," which we loved. She also looks like 'Boof' from "Teen Wolf". And we did catch part of Feast's performance but I don't think words do them justice... The Kids of Widney High did some overdue self-promotion for their new CD and cameo in the movie "The Ringer" at Mr. T's. Also nice to see so many people making use of the dance floor for 8 Bit Weapon, The Monolators, and 8 Bit. By the way, The Monolators played their best show ever at the Silverlake Lounge. New album Our Tears Have Wings is due late Spring and it's fantastic. Andy from 8 Bit is giving a go on bass with them... Made up for missing Space Mtn earlier and checked them out in Long Beach. Almost a year after having our first face-to-face with Ms. Waxman in Paris, I'd say she's come a long way. Forgot to mention to her that "Seals" is the best song on the album. It is. Jessica Dobson opened. Also been about a year since seeing her while she's been busy recording her debut for Atlantic. Seems she's testing out new songs and we thank her for that. Missed Lemon Sun that night but saw them at the Foreign Born/Cold War Kids/In Waves show at the Echo where they stood stagefront blocking all the short people. Oh, and how about this new band In Waves, eh? Were you as eyelocked to their drummer as we were? Damn. By the way, that new CWK song "Hang Me Up To Dry" is probably the best song they've written yet. It should be available on one of their two EPs due in March... While sipping chocolate shakes and watching The Sweet Hurt's latest Smoosh-like incarnation at Sacred Grounds, we got a text from Ms. J letting us know that The Smell anniversary show was a big hit. 'Mmm... Becky Stark' we text-messaged back and promptly separated battery from cellphone... Been over a year since we stood at the feet of Annie Hardy. Gigante Drag never sounded better and her barre chords never looked so firm. Also saw Kate Earl again. She asked us to come this time and as you know it's hard to say no to this lady. On a related note, Kate and Annie were once college classmates and once played together at Vine during Annie's DJ residency days a few years back, something that should happen again someday soon... Gregory Page played his first L.A. show in what felt like a century at Largo opening for John Doe. He was only given four songs. Still, those four songs were better than most band's entire career output. He was quick to point out how proud he was that he'll be in the April issue of Penthouse Magazine talking about the re-release of one of the best albums ever made Love Made Me Drunk due in stores May 2nd. A release show is scheduled back in Largo around that time... Went to see the Whisky Biscuit/Future Pigeon shows at the Echo with the highlight for us being the night with Blackbird (awestruck). You'll want to be at their encore residency at the Silverlake Lounge throughout February.

So what else has happened lately? For starters, Xian left 400 Blows. We're crushed... In less than six months, She Wants Revenge has gone from generally liked to the most hated band in Los Angeles. If you don't why, you probably listen to KROQ. We still love Warfield, but do have this thing against L.A. bands that sound too much like N.Y. ones -- and then deny it... Esquimaux moved back to Baltimore, MD. Wha?... If you're not from L.A. the best way to hear about good local bands is through "Grey's Anatomy," which has featured Angela Correa, Devics, Kate Earl, The 88, Inara George, and Joe Purdy in recent weeks... The Gun Shys changed their name to The Shys. The new album exceeds expectations. ... PJH is playing regularly with Morris Tepper, which is doing wonders for Ice Cream for Crow sales... Got word Carla Werner is coming back to L.A. in April... Copies of the new Two Gallants record What the Toll Tells came in and for the last month we've have been listening to the epic "Age of Assassins" pretty much non-stop (see blog title). Also got copies of Sierra Swan, Rhett Miller, Trespassers William, Devics, Irving, Garrison Starr, and the new Ambulette EP. We'll post about some of those later perhaps... We officially moved to la-underground.net. What will we ever do with all this disk space? Hm...

Emma Zunz - "Resting Place" (MP3)
Foreign Born - "Holy Splinter" (MP3)
Foreign Born - "Into Your Dream" (MP3)
Ferraby Lionheart - "A Crack In Time" (MP3)
Ferraby Lionheart - "Tickets To Crickets" (MP3)

- Posted by la-underground || 2:16 PM ||

Comments:

i was at the echo show too! ferraby was indeed a pleasant surprise :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 2/21/2006 05:23:00 PM

great post :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 2/22/2006 05:06:00 PM

Just wanted to write that I read your blog all the time. And I'm not even from LA!!! Thank you for the MP3s of Feraby Lionheart. These are really good.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2/24/2006 01:47:00 AM

why can't i ever be lucky enough to be in college with two hot ladies like kate and annie?!? dammit.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2/24/2006 07:13:00 PM

you should let people know that you've moved to a new server. i had no idea. -C

# posted by

Anonymous : 2/27/2006 02:22:00 PM

i just discovered ferraby the other day and found your site! he's amazing. good discovery on your part though. he's going to be huuuuuge!! :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 10/12/2006 08:12:00 AM

huge props for the ferraby find. now everybody's writing about him. posers ;P

# posted by

Anonymous : 10/26/2006 08:07:00 PM

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