Hope everyone has been having a good monday so far, I sure have (plus I just found out were having steak for dinner! yes!!!)…enough of my carnivorous ways…also I hope you have been enjoying issue No.6. We have some really great features in there from Sam Green, Ruben Brulat, J. Tillman (Fleet Foxes) and others definitely worth the read. If you haven’t taken a look yet, do so here!
Anyways heres some of my music video picks for this monday, enjoy.
From Lil Wayne to Hercules and Love Affair, a lot of posers have caught on to these super hip glasses in the past few years, but Super has released something that not even Kanye can pull off… Super sunglasses for kids! Suggested for ages 4-10, these will make your child or younger sibling the hottest piece of meat on the jungle gym. The glasses come in 12 colors from crystal to neons. Get them before these limited numbers run out!
It’s not a surprise that Los Angeles holds some of the best nightlife around here, although one thing that I love the most are the First Fridays. During the first Friday of every month the Los Angeles Natural History Museum opens its doors until 10 p.m. with performances in the halls lasting into the late night. They have live music, exciting scientific discussion, and custom curatorial tours.
What’s better then to gain some knowledge and experience some good music?
There have been performances by Atlas Sound, Tune Yards, The Bird and The Bee, Fool’s Gold, Busdriver and Wolfmother. Tonight’s “lineup” is just as up to parr, there will be performances by Yeasayer, Warpaint, Them Jeans, and Ana Calderon with a discussion titled “Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?” with Dr. Nathan S. Lewis.
Hurry up and head on over down to LA, tickets are sold at the door, but theres only a limited amount.
Lucky for you guys who are stuck at home though (or live too far to make it) Yeasayer’s performance will be streamed live at 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time, USA here. You can click the link now and watch a clip of Bradford Cox, from Deerhunter & Atlas Sound, performing at January’s First Friday.
….speaking of Yeasayer, you can start pre-ordering their upcoming album on their site now.
With a projected date to release the the album on Warp Records on 4/20 (funny coincidence?), it seems like they have moved it to date. The new planned date is May 4th in the US and a day earlier in the UK. However one good thing, Thom Yorke guests on the album! This definitely just made the wait harder then it already was.
For those of you that haven’t experienced the sublimeness of Flying Lotus, here is a video to the song “Massage Situation.”
Don’t get turned off by this festival name just because of it’s poorly chosen title; this year’s festival includes Plastic Ono Band, Four Tet, Zee Avi, and many others in this Bay area festival. For one week starting February 23rd, you can go to the various clubs hosting shows ranging from bands around the world. And if you get tired, you can always relax in the theaters where the film festival will be featuring pictures of Woodstock and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. But the biggest news of the weekend is probably Yoko Ono’s first appearance in the Bay area for the first time in 14 years, who will be on stage with Cornelius and Cibo Matto’s Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. Openers for the show include Deerhunter.
To see the full lineup of bands, ticket information, or schedule for the films, go to their website.
Acrobatics Everday (masterminded by one of our writers and friend, Emily Hsiao) is having a show this friday at UCI. It is an acoustic set with the Vivian Girls and Deathday Party. Be there or be square.
