Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Last day of September and a good time to reflect on the month as well as the eight previous months before it as we charge into the last quarter of 2009.
There were tons of record release shows in September highlighted by The Happy Hollows, The Widow Babies, Mikki & the Mauses, HEALTH, Green & Wood, and Cobra Lilies. We highly recommend getting all those records when your budget allows it. We also put our first record out this month for The Monolators and are already making plans for another release
This leaves us just one last night for September and we imagine most of us will be at The Echo for Buzzbands' One Year Anniversary with Eastern Conference Champions, Voxhaul Broadcast, Samuel Stewart, and Radio Freq. We hate to play favorites but as far as local music blogs go, this is probably the only one you ever need. K-Bronze's fair and impartial view of the scene is one thing, but you add the fact that the guy goes to more shows than most kids half his age is pure awesome. Clearly, he loves music. And he proves it everyday through the music scene omniportal known as Buzzbands.la. Show your support tonight...
In other news: It might be too early to call it, but Dead Man's Bones self-titled new record could be a Top 10 of 2009 contender, no matter if you did or didn't cry during The Notebook. And it's also seriously challenging Edward Sharpe's Up From Below (and the new LA Ladies Choir EP) as the our favorite record with the most heartbursting choruses of the century. You can't really feel guilty for being this emotionally uplifted when the kids on these choruses are singing their little hearts out on songs like "Young & Tragic," "Buried in Water," and our personal favorite "My Body's a Zombie for You." It comes out next week, so make good on the leaked copy you got and buy it. Here are two live vids from their show at the Silverlake Lounge a few months back ["Flowers Grow Out of My Grave" | "Pa Pa Power"]... Rachael Cantu covered Ra Ra Riot's "Can You Tell" for a sampler she's giving away at shows on the East Coast but you can listen to it on her MySpace. New album out tentatively in November... Odd Modern fans now can get anything you want Odd-Modernized... Also, don't forget to tune in tonight for The Like playign "He's Not a Boy" on Carson Daly, recorded live from their show at the Palladium. And The Littlest Viking does an in-studio on Livation at midnight... Oh, and just as a heads up, we're helping with a Halloween show on 10/31 at pehrspace with Asa Ransom, Eliza Rickman, The Blind (a band recommended by Matt from Manhattan Murder Mystery), and perhaps a special guest. Also, we're now co-presenting the Inara George, Eleni Mandell, Ferraby Lionheart, and Daniel Martin Moore show at the Bootleg on 11/10. We're going to be doing a ticket giveaway at some point but you should get tickets asap because this show will sell out. We actually thought about buying all the tickets just so we could have this lineup all to ourselves but that wouldn't be very "Los Angeles Loves You" of us. Damn you, motto.
Above is a photo of Ty Segall on Monday at The Smell. We love him (as indicated by the floating heart).
