Jazz guitar virtuoso Bruce Forman will be a guest on "Claremont Straight Ahead", hosted by Larry the Fox, at 1:00 pm on Monday, October 3. Bruce has performed and recorded with most of the legends of jazz and has 16 CD's to…
The next SC3 arcade party will take place on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 12 noon to 12 midnight, at the Nucleus gallery in Alhambra, CA! As always, we'll have dozens of bona fide vintage coin-ops and home consoles on…
Mikal Cronin’s new, self-titled album (out now on Trouble In Mind Records) was the #1 played album on KSPC last week. It’s the young garage-rocker’s first album! Find out what else was being played on KSPC here!
Photo by Rachel Davidson.
Sunday, September 18, 2011. It would have been a mind-addling, homework-inundated kind of Sunday for me, just like any other… if I had not decided to throw caution to the wind and escape the real world for the night. This otherworldly trip began with an eventful drive on the I-10/101 in a crowded Scripps van with seven of my friends, and after more than an hour and a half of patient waiting, I came face-to-face with my favorite musician, James Blake. Glorious.
Why is Largo the best thing all of the time?
That, of course, is a rhetorical question. Any venue that can collect the Watkins siblings, Jackson Browne, Benmont Tench, Sebastian Steinburg, Blake Miller, Joe Purdy, and Fiona Apple onto a single stage deserves all the praise that it can receive. The Watkins Family Hour is a Largo tradition, and its most recent edition was a typically stellar showing. The only complaint that one could possibly make about the night was that it ended far too quickly, with barely enough time to bring all the guests onstage, much less let Sara and Sean Watkins really stretch out into some epic fiddle-and-guitar bluegrass breakdowns. (Having seen the Watkins Family Hour perform for more than two hours last year in the intimate Little Room of the Largo is probably a critical bias.) Which is not to say that there was a deficit of pickin’.
The Horrors’ latest album, Skying (out now on XL Recordings), was the #1 played album last week. This marks the third album from the British post-punk/shoegaze band, and the very first that the band has self-produced. Find out what else was being played on KSPC here!
Gavin Turek and TOKiMONSTA kicked off this semester of Art After Hours on September 15th, bringing energy and style to Thatcher’s southeast lawn—the opposite side of Lyon Garden than last year’s Art After Hours setup, and a minor change, but one that both felt like a refreshing alteration and spared the garden’s grass by encouraging more spectators to stand along the paved walkway. Complementing the rebellious theme of the current exhibit at the Pomona Museum of Art, which celebrates the young artists whose work populated the museum between 1969 and 1973, Gavin Turek SC ’09 started the evening with her buoyant set of vibrant, danceable pop music.
For a certain kind of person, it was a star-studded night last Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to the names on the marquee, there were such luminous guests as T-Bone Burnett and St. Vincent, not to mention Neko Case’s fellow New Pornographer Kurt Dahle and the lost Wainwright half-sibling, Lucy Roche. Although none of these artists have achieved mainstream success (notwithstanding The National’s gold plaque for High Violet), anyone with an interest in Americana-inflected rock ‘n’ roll could not help but marvel at the array of musical talent brought to bear underneath the full Los Angeles moon.
Hey everyone, #1 this week is the debut album Out of Love by Mister Heavenly, released on Sup Pop. Mister Heavenly is composed of Nick Thorburn (Islands/The Unicorns), Ryan Kattner (Man Man), and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse). I saw these guys on tour with Passion Pit, and have been waiting for an album ever since! <3
Catch LA band, BLEACHED, for a live in-studio performance tonight on the Lost @ Sea show with Maru, from 8-10pm. The band plays 60s beachy/psychedelic pop that is sure to get you singing and shouting along. Don't miss out!
