Oh, she’s great. Modest in everything but guitar and voice, I said. Echo on guitar and drums and voice a glow as much a sound. Let’s apply the liner notes to my Sammi Smith LP:

Little bites and clips for what’s up tonight, like that Get Out thing I once did during darker times, but smaller. As said: all these shows cost money and probably start about showtimeish (9-10 PM?) and all these shows TONIGHT!

DON CABALLERO @ ALEX’S: Steel City loudness from Damon Che’s metalworkers (now on Relapse) plus locals [...]

I wandered in and got a serious peek. Definitely everyone should go. This is up there with MANUFACTURED INSPIRATO (a stated inspirato-ion) as far as Koo’s spectacularism goes. Andrew Jeffrey Wright has some intense geometrics, Skullphone has some just-off-the-rack posters, Bryan Schnelle has done some pretty powerful home-invasion collage on a center pillar… I didn’t [...]

They sent me one. It’s unreal. I thought I was too heartless for this kind of thing anymore but this is probably the best and most beautiful punk-archive book since HARDCORE CALIFORNIA, and with unrestrained production values, too. The Masque anniversary show is at the Echoplex this Sunday (so are Orphans, though!) and I’ll try [...]

At-one-time-Long Beach-based label GSL–home of Mars Volta’s first EP, Le Shok’s LP, De Facto, Free Moral Agents, Coaxial, Operator and I think Sexy Time Explosion (no go for them but try Blood Red Orchestra and Look Daggers) right at the end?–officially shuts it down today, marking fourteen years that started with federal student loan funding [...]

Who is the Flying Lotus machine?

The best night at one of the best hip-hop clubs in LA: Low End Theory’s debut Unreleased Beat Invitational, when producer Daddy Kev says (like King Coleman said before him) show me what you got, and contenders line up to try out new beats in front of a ferociously literate [...]

Low tones with Joe Lally

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY

Bass unrestrained for this night at Alex’s Bar: Watt and Kira’s double-bass Dos, revered like most Wattage by all clued locals, and then a solo (with backing band) show by Fugazi’s Joe Lally, whose own long discography touches tangent with Watt for principle and longevity and the kind [...]

Via Fingerprints‘ website:
To celebrate the release of Bob Dylan The Other Side Of The Mirror - Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 and the release of the soundtrack to Todd Haynes new Dylan biopic, I’m Not There, we will be having our first ever hoot-night. We are accepting entries to perform at this special [...]

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Via Rory @ half-local (other half in Brooklyn) label Militia Group: their band Everybody Else wants to set up in your house and film a bunch of gyrating characters for a video for their song ‘Meat Market.’ If you would like to include your own walls and ceilings in the wild [...]