Thursday, March 11, 2010
Toxic Mimics
Fresh from a stunning LA opening last year Faris McReynolds has a new show at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium...
Saturday, March 6, 2010
RIP Mark Linkous
The Sparklehorse founder, also a producer and champion of outsider artists like Daniel Johnston, took his own life...
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Manchester: a Hacienda timewarp?
Oliver Wilson (Tony Wilson's son) discusses Manchester past, present and future...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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...
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...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Ray of light...
Nice viral by Rob Ray for the SLR show at La Cave tonight featuring a couple of Stanley songs...
Sunday, February 28, 2010
David Shane Smith, 1/1, Ray Argyle at Where...
David Shane Smith hosted another entertaining evening at Where, started in fine fashion by 1/1. 1/1 is 19 year-old wunderkid Michael Marcel Castro, who plays and mixes on a laptop, sometimes accompanied by random drum hits and live drumming... 1/1's music moved from James Bond type spy themes, through Eno ambience to kind of a Lymbyc Systym vibe with the live drummer... Great stuff...
1/1
David Shane Smith continued the electronic theme through the first half of his set, playing 'Additives', 'Miserablism', 'Tarmac' and a great extended version of 'Creatures of habit'... These were accompanied by some freaky dancing and visuals which gave the set a rave feel - or at very least the chill-out room at a rave. The second half of the set was mostly acoustic, ending on a mellow note...
DSS
I saw a few songs from Ray Argyle and band, who sounded very accomplished. The songs had a vaguely Dylan-esque feel...
Ray Argyle
1/1
David Shane Smith continued the electronic theme through the first half of his set, playing 'Additives', 'Miserablism', 'Tarmac' and a great extended version of 'Creatures of habit'... These were accompanied by some freaky dancing and visuals which gave the set a rave feel - or at very least the chill-out room at a rave. The second half of the set was mostly acoustic, ending on a mellow note...
DSS
I saw a few songs from Ray Argyle and band, who sounded very accomplished. The songs had a vaguely Dylan-esque feel...
Ray Argyle
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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