Check out how I finally wired the turntable into the computer. I got to get a pair of new needles/cartridges if anyone can point toward a deal since the thing I’m using now is a rusty hook I pried off a jawbone at the beach. These are actually records I got next to the set-up [...]

Imaad Wasif washing the eye of the land

PHOTO by NICK ZINNER
Imaad Wasif and the Two Part Beast “Wanderlusting”

I hear an ocean in my head, says Imaad Wasif—the sound of drones from the classical albums his father shipped from India to Palm Desert, where they arrived soggy from steerage with their covers and labels peeled away, [...]

Foot Foot ” Trumpet”

Apologies for the incorrect calendar listing for this show, but it’s with this that you know now that the 21st installment of Outsider Folk hits tonight at Zephyr.
Full disclosure dictates me to tell you that The District’s Kevin Ferguson will be playing this show, but the rest of the line up is [...]

Congratulations to Crystal Antlers on the lucky recovery of all their stuff two weeks ago, and thanks also to them for helping book this awesome line-up, which is yet another installment in Long Beach’s now-monthly Show(s) Of The Year.

Not the famously lost “Sweet Sister Ray” (which exists only in a 1968 Lester Bangs review of a San Diego VU show) but a song no one even knew was lost: “I’m Not A Young Man Anymore,” which you can listen to below and download in many places.

Nice rainy night in Long Beach: Paperplanes (whose Rhinestone Republic is one of my favorite local releases this year) and Fast Dragon (who re-equip Karp/Jehu heaviness for this heavier decade and who opened for John Reis’ Night Marchers two weeks back) plus Transfer and DJ Clamour (is that an actual ex-member of the band the [...]

Nice to see Cry and the Stal Antlers really starting to roll, despite this month’s rotten grand-theft-auto experience: I keep an eye on all medias lateral and above and Crystal Antlers are really cracking greater Los Angeles open. Rena checked ‘em out for L.A. WEEKLY and now JAX checks them out—very enthusiastically checks them out—for [...]

HAVANA (AFP) - Fidel Castro resigned Tuesday as president and commander in chief of Cuba, the online official press said. Fast-breaking related:

A 65-year-old Texan called into Fox News Radio’s Tom Sullivan with this gem: Obama sure sounds a lot like Hitler. It’s not the message or the style, the caller said, just, you know, the inspiration. Sullivan lapped it up and decided to mash together a few clips of Hitler with some of Obama’s greater hits. [...]

And now for you a little mix of songs to bitter up your Valentine beverages. Evidently science once discovered that no songs are sadder than sad country songs, so here’s seventeen to roll you over and put you to bed for the holiday if you need it. I set some lively ones in the middle [...]