Thanks for tuning in to Public Education. We on indie1031.com every Sunday from 6-8 pm PST. If you were listening, then you were a witness to the Facebook marriage of Danny and myself. The first day of marriage is good and the beatings are sparse.
Reaching Quiet – At Home Costume: The Vowels
Blockhead – Which One Of Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer RENMINBI – Portland
Black Lips – The Drop I Hold feat. GZA
regal – Family of Bears Active Child – Wilderness
Fol Chen – In the Flesh
Papercuts – White are the Waves
I Am The Dot – Glacial Age feat. Boneless
Gza /Salvador Santana/Dan Deacon – Unity
U-God – Train Trussle Meho Plaza – The Beach
Groove Armada – Shameless (feat. Bryan Ferry)
Superhumanoids – Dangerous Strangers
Candy Claws – Lantern Fish
The Ruby Suns – Tane Mahuta
I was at 60 Watt Kid’s record release show at the Echo a couple nights ago, with Tearist, Gowns, and Best Coast too. Regrettably, my friends camera broke so I only have this photo from a show at UCI last year. You can get the album from here.
Gowns’ set was simply breathtaking, albeit short. They only played 3 songs. It began with Ezra on the violin, manipulating his live playing with the multitude of pedals in front of him. That droning served as a perfect canvas for Erika’s singing and guitar playing. The song morphed into a sonic masterpiece, one that involved Erika smashing her guitar around a bit at the end. She apologized to it after while tuning. The set ended with a hip hop song. Ezra played music on a keyboard and Erika rapped with the best.
Best Coast went on next, and despite a few issues with the sound at first (the vocals weren’t coming through) played a great set. They played the usual favorites off their 7″ along with a few new songs I hadn’t heard. Bethany pointed out that she and her guitarist, Bobb, had matching guitars. It was planned.
60 Watt Kid came on last, and played some incredible songs. Now with a drummer, their band sounded much more full than I’ve heard it before, and the rhythm added a great new element to their songs. However, it in no way diminished the wonderful interplay between the two original members, Kevin and Derek. They each played and looped parts on guitars and keys, creating sounds I didn’t think possible from just two people. Kevin’s stage antics, once he departed from his instruments and thrashed around the stage with just a microphone, were definitely memorable as well.
If you want to catch 60 Watt Kid for yourself, they’ll be playing the December 12th FMLY show at the Courtyard with Tempo No Tempo and Grooms. Get excited.
Thanks for everyone who tuned in this week to Public Education. We had a heck of a time with Moses Campbell busting out the live jams. Check out the playlist and grab some!
fuck anything that has ever intentionally come in the way of happiness. do what you want to do and be who you want to be. “the fact that we cannot manage to achieve more than an unstable grasp of reality doubtless gives the measure of our present alienation” (roland barthes). this is a crucial time in developing the myth that will certainly become our future. we’re young and ignorantly opinionated, but we can use this advantageously to learn from the ideologies of past generations. we will refuse to become inoculated and we will destroy the privatization of history for we know that “all that is solid melts into air” (karl marx) and realize that the road which we follow only leads to a pitfall – the view from hubbert’s peak says a thousand words but is not a kodak moment. a time has come and gone when our actions could have been ‘corrected,’ but as of yesterday we must each take responsibility for what lies today. as ralph waldo emerson said, “do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ladies grab your paisley and gents, fish those drainpipe jeans out of your dresser…we’re going to a luau! Neverever, Best Coast and Pearl Harbor are celebrating Sunday at Territory Records beginning at 5PM. California gals are the best.
New Best Coast via fbook via Forkcast. We’ve talked a lot about Best Coast here and there and were so lucky to have Bethany and Bobb come out and play FMLY’s Beach Dazed earlier this summer. Whether it looks like it outside or not it’s still summer so toss this one on your beach playlist, grab the one-piece and have a wholesome time in the dunes!
You heard Bethany! Show at the Smell in LA tonight with Best Coast, Pearl Harbour, Harry Merry (in town from Holland) and Native Fauna whom I have nothing but good vibes for. If you have $5 and a night with no plans let this be a strongly recommended suggestion.
If you missed Best Coast at Beach Dazed, you missed out homie. Bethany and Bobb are a winning combo, and according to L.A. Record’s review of the show Bethany’s “sincere delivery and love letter lyrics make singing about heartbreak feel so good I wish somebody would dump me right now.”
Best Coast is releasing a self-titled 7″ (pictured above) featuring tunes we won’t stop bumpin’ “Sun Was High (So Was I),”"So Gone” and “That’s the Way Boys Are” on one of my favorite labels, the San Diego-based Art Fag.
We’d like to announce that Best Coast and DJDT have been added to our indoor stage at Beach Dazed this Saturday. Tickets have gone up to $30, but I’d also like to take this opportunity to announce that for all Los Angeles students with a valid ID, tickets will be sold for $20 at the door. See you there.
Also playing are RJD2, Busdriver, Voxtrot, Haim, Railcars, [Post-foetus], Alligators, and more! Purchase tickets by clicking the banner to the left.
New [Post-foetus] DJ beats from the archive of Will Wiesenfeld. Recommended for fans of the Field aka highly recommended. Very soothing to play a speech or audiobook over. Will recently played a show at the Roxy supporting Super Mash Bros, make sure to catch him with the po-fo band at FMLY’s Beach Dazed.
Unofficial video for Best Coast’s “Sun Was High (So Was I)” put together by Pat Vamos whom we’ve blogged about in the past. Guy has a knack for knowing great tunes and putting together visual correlation.
We dropped the Pearl Harbour name last week while posting on the sounds of Best Coast. Fortunately with collective memory, spontaneous reaction, the internet’s large ears and yadda yadda Chris over at Gorilla vs Bear threw up a post on the Los Angeles duo – REPRESENT! Maybe it’s Obama, pollution, or summer breeze, but it seems like much more dazed weed-pop is circulating these days, but after skimming through this blog it’s obvious that we have no complaints.
Cop Pearl Harbour’s Calistonia Dreamin’ CD-r with some sweet handmade cover art for $5 here and also click that link to find out about shows coming up this summer (w/ Nite Jewel, Best Coast & more). Nice short video after the jump.
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
Kria Brekkan & Drawlings
McWorld
March 24th fbook event
Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Pacific and Water
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
San Francisco
Thank you Come Again
The Neighbors, Wes Leslie, Shaw, Maus Haus, Mistlefinger, Goliath the Giver
March 21st
Dolores Park f book event
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