Wednesday, April 01, 2009
First of all, congrats are in order to Origami Vinyl for a wonderful March residency at The Echo. Last night's show was the biggest of the month with Summer Darling, Wait.Think.Fast., Kissing Cousins, and Future Ghost drawing a great crowd that stuck around through the whole night. Origami's opening night is this Friday with performances by WTF and Nico Stai. Our goal is to walk in, go straight to the soul section, find both copies of this record, make out with WTF, hi-five Neil, put up our poster for Saturday's show, do the centipede to Nico Stai, solve the cure for Cancer, and then go home. That's how cool this record store is going to be.
Silversun Pickups' long-awaited follow-up to their record is now available for pre-order through Dangerbird Records. There's a limited edition Swoon deluxe package that includes a gatefold double vinyl LP, lyric/photo book (handwritten), t-shirt, Swoon cover art lithograph, digital downloads, and button/sticker pack. All for a measly $100. Based on a few listens, this record has much better songs than Carnavas with "The Royal We," "Substitution," and "Catch & Release" being early favorites. Don't know if the band feels there's any pressure on this record being more successful than the first but we do know that there are those who doubt that it will be. So, when these doubters have their say (we predict Pitchfork gives it a 3.4 based on their hatred for L.A. bands that don't rhyme with Knowage), we hope true SSPU fans prove them wrong (again). Here's a link to download the whole record for free but please be sure to buy the album when it comes out!
Notable local releases this week:
Aceyalone - The Lonely Ones (Decon) [self-released in 2008] Amazon
Honeypie - EP (Honeypie) iTunes
Mia Doi Todd (with Andres Renteria) - Morning Music (City Zen) iTunes
Maria Taylor - LadyLuck (Nettwerk) iTunes
The New Room - Only World We Know (The New Room) iTunes
We haven't done this in awhile. Here are some videos from recent shows around town:
