Joining a roster that tugs between roots-based music and reeling noise punk on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Records, the newly inducted James Toth has taken sides and forged ahead without a look back over his shoulder. Dropping the ever-changing latter half of his moniker (be it "the Vanishing Voice" or "the Sky High Band") and prefaced by a self-reflexive nod to Toth's own exploration of understatement, the thusly entitled Wooden Wand's James and the Quiet bears itself unembellished in every...
From the moment I walked up to the Key Club in Los Angeles for the final regional qualifier for the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, I knew this night would be amazing. What tipped me off was my first glimpse at a few of the contestants making their way into the venue before the doors opened to the public. Some made me shrug, some made me laugh, and some actually made me want to puke. But as my press contacts ushered...
2007 has turned out to be a pretty spectacular year for music in our opinion. So much so that we wanted to share our Top 10 records of the year…so far. Mark Ziemke1. The National – Boxer 2. The Bees – Octopus3. Land of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo Hiss4. Chris Bathgate – A Cork Tale Wake5. Cloud Cult – The Meaning of the Number 86. Pela – Anytown Graffiti 7. !!! – Myth Takes8. The White Stripes – Icky...
Once upon a time in January, Division Day was on the verge of taking the indie world by storm. They’d recorded a record—Beartrap Island—at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio, which was garnering all sorts of pre-release buzz in the blogs. They’d played to acclaim at the 2006 CMJ festival, and were preparing to tear up Austin for SXSW. Promos were hot in the hands of print journalists, heading towards a late March release. All in all, things were looking up....
Leslie Feist managed to make an enormous splash on Let It Die, her second album out from under the umbrella of Canada’s musical superhero coalition Broken Social Scene, in part out of shock at her incredible talent and songwriting. One album and 3 years later, the element of surprise long washed away, she’s proven that her abilities (and there are many) are only improving. The crowd at the Wiltern is a sea of what appear to be the most interesting...
I never thought I would want to move back to Columbus, Ohio, but as the days went by, it looked as if the guys from Interpol were planning on avoiding the West Coast like we had some highly contagious disease. Well, in order to keep pushing Our Love To Admire they must've taken some sort of vaccine because they decided to squeeze two months of touring between Montreal's Osheaga Music and Arts Festival on Spetepmber 9th and their 13-day stint...
Mama says Satan's got a heart of goldPapa says Jesus got a heart of stone, yeahEveryone says I got a heart of stoneBut Satan says I got a heart of gold For some reason metal has been on my mind all day. Maybe because i was searching for metal festivals this summer and came across Sounds of the Underground, which led me to Ferret Music's site and wished they had some free downloads. I was going to do Century Media,...
Posting this actually makes me sad and happy at the same time, considering I just sold all my records, except like 5 that I really loved, or just haven’t sold yet. But thanks to my man DJ C-Town, who at the time worked at Amoeba in L.A., grabbed “Won’t Bother Me” by The Glass and just said, “Buy this shit.” I did, and played it over and over and over again… So the news of them coming out with a...
Team GC loves L.A. almost as much as Internet radio. That’s why, even on the day of Internet silence to Save Net Radio, the Little Radio studio welcomed its new friends and favorite underage band Four Fifty One to come in and chat about their self-titled 2006 EP, being on Veronica Mars, exile from their home base in Baltimore, and of course, why Internet radio is awesome. Drew, Chris, Marquis, Andy and Yanni were pretty tired from the aftermath of...