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A report back from the Ukraine, and an…

- December 11, 2007December 14, 2007 - orangehairboy comment

Some friends of mine just got back from the Ukraine, where they reported that the Russian language pop music scene is BOOMING. They watched videos on the music television stations there and said there's a…

Hardcore Devo

- December 11, 2007January 3, 2008 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

Mark Mothersbaugh is on the cover of this week's L.A. Weekly. It's an eight page article, and in it the author, Randall Roberts, describes one of the long-term employees at Mutato Inc. and his opinion…

Bands / Performers / Shows / Songwriters

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby at Safari Sam’s

- December 8, 2007December 8, 2007 - orangehairboy 3 Comments

I saw these guys play last night, and, okay, Eric needs to get that talentless woman off the stage. Not since David Bowie joined Tin Machine has a great musician intentionally allied themselves with such…

Bands / Performers

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

- December 5, 2007December 6, 2007 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

I'm bummed I missed Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings last night. They played at the El Rey, but it was sold out. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE&rel=1] My friend burned me a special copy of their 2002 CD, and…

Bands / Shows

New Collapse R.I.P.

- December 3, 2007December 3, 2007 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

New Collapse played their last show ever last night at the Echo. This isn't that footage, but I wanted to post a clip to show how amazing this band was on a pretty consistent basis,…

Albums / Margo Guryan / MySpace Pages / Performers / Songwriters

Margo Guryan

- November 30, 2007January 4, 2008 - orangehairboy 1 Comment

My work kept me up until 3 a.m., so today I'm working from home, with the grey skies outside and the sound of rain gurgling through the trees making me feel even groggier than I…

Albums / Classical Moosic

Nigel Kennedy

- November 29, 2007November 30, 2007 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

I've been digging piano concertos recently, so thought I'd branch out into violin concertos. In getting this collection of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos, I basically stumbled onto the punk rock Yo Yo Ma in the…

Bands / Shows

Ooh, You’re Strange…

- November 20, 2007November 30, 2007 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

I saw the Strange Boys Sunday night at the Smell. Some friends and I had been "playing" football earlier, so we brought the ball into the club and were throwing it around in the crowd and dogpiling each other while the…

Bands

Thee Makeout Party!

- November 17, 2007November 21, 2007 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

I love love love Thee Makeout Party. They've combined the Kasenetz-Katz sound with the Velvet Underground jangle and made something both engaging and incredibly sweet. And they're really great guys, without a shred of pretention…

Fancy Space People / Shows

Fancy Space People – Live at Mondo Video

- November 8, 2007January 4, 2008 - orangehairboy comment

Don't go try renting videos from Mondo--the Los Angeles establishment closed its doors forever on Halloween night, in a spectacle of destruction, drunken rage, costumes, outsider artistry, dementia, and strobe lighting. Things started off with…

Bands / Celebrities / Devo / Interviews / Songwriters

Ostrich Ink Interview with Mark Mothersbaugh

- June 12, 2001February 16, 2008 - orangehairboy 2 Comments

Looks like Ostrich Ink, the great online magazine written by a bunch of young Angelenos including myself, is kaput! Kyle's stopped paying for the domain, and all the archives are inaccessible. I thought then that…