LA Font, David Shane Smith, stanleylucasRevolution and Robert James at Where 3/26/10

They say a picture paints a thousand words...

Slowly becoming strangers...

Brookline played their final gig this week at La Cave in Costa Mesa - the Orange County band calling it quits after 6 years... Falling somewhere between Pink Floyd and Radiohead, their melodic rock lacked a contemporary edge and was sometimes over-written and somewhat self-indulgent. Having said that they are all great guys and accomplished musicians who I'm sure will be playing in other bands soon. Indeed, a couple of them have already played bass in the hipster rock band Railroad to Alaska...

At La Cave, they threw in a nice version of 'The Killing Moon' although the sound quality on the video is distorted...

RIP Alex Chilton

The Big Star frontman was 59...

Times New Camera

Testing the HDFlip at the LA Font show Monday night... Audio isn't bad considering it was a loud show and I was close to the speakers...



Compare the audio to the distorted audio from the Canon Powershot footage. Shame because I love 'Evening Tea (on the balcony)'...

Toxic Mimics

Fresh from a stunning LA opening last year Faris McReynolds has a new show at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium...

RIP Mark Linkous

The Sparklehorse founder, also a producer and champion of outsider artists like Daniel Johnston, took his own life...

Manchester: a Hacienda timewarp?

Oliver Wilson (Tony Wilson's son) discusses Manchester past, present and future...

stanleylucasRevolution at La Cave

I got lost behind the Orange curtain last night! The Bermuda triangle has nothing on Costa Mesa if you venture away from West 19th St without a GPS... In a perfect world 17th St would be parallel with 19th St, but as you know kids, this world is far from perfect...

Anyways, I arrived in good time to see SLR, who were on top form. The brassy 'This World' was followed by the metronomic rant of 'Demolition 45' with its hooky "meaningless expression..." refrain. Next was a great new song with a funky guitar loop accompanied by a frenzied vocal, the fast march of 'Spanish Boots' and finally the poignant 'Leave the light on' complete with some Blur-a-like vocal melodies...

SLR also played 'Lost on the way home' with its delightful sea-shanty swing... Unfortunately, I did get lost on the way home...

Here's some of the new song...

Ray of light...

Nice viral by Rob Ray for the SLR show at La Cave tonight featuring a couple of Stanley songs...