Candy Claws in Los Angeles!!!

The band whom I gushed about in my first blog post ever, will be in Los Angeles at the Echo on Wednesday August 17th for a reasonable $8 cover:  "We so excited."  This band is really worth your ears' careful consideration.  Free high fives for everyone I meet at the show.

Active Child Brings The Falsetto/Harp Joy With Free Shows And New Album

Active Child will delight your ears every Monday of this month for free at the echo. This dude rocks the falsetto like one of my other falsetto heroes, DM Stith.  Pat Grossi uses his falsetto more often than Stith, but I never grew tired of it or thought it grating. The drum pad beats, the harp, and his soaring falsetto were gorgeously overlaid.

Here is a new song off his forthcoming album, You Are All I See.  Listen on repeat!
Active Child - Hanging On by snipelondon

Free New Song From M83, "Midnight City"

"Midnight City" is an amazing track from M83's forthcoming album "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming."  Take a listen and download it for free at soundcloud.com.  The song has the characteristic synthy fullness that has made M83 so great, but it also features Europop-like verses and a killer saxophone outro.


Midnight City by M83

Here is another short preview from the new album:

Free New Music From Washed Out

Washed Out's new album is out today.  This chill bro makes some really great music, and Within Without seems to be no exception.  Sample his song "Amor Fati," the third track on the album, which can be had for free at Amazon.


And here are clips of the rest:

Scandinavian Gold 2: Free Sampler @Amazon

I recommend "Ram Ram" by The Deer Tracks; it's a good mellow song with subdued glitchy beats and a catchy chorus. "Fight For Me" by Wildbirds and Peacedrums is also decent; it is an experimental mix of drums and choir.  The rest while not bad, never matches the quality of the first song.

Mount Eerie And Distorted Gong Feedback

So the Mount Eerie show on Friday was superb.  There are a few videos out there on the internets of it, but this video of the following night at The Che Cafe does the sound much more justice than the others.  These were the first two opening numbers at The Center for Arts in Eagle Rock.  The incredibly loud gong feedback at the beginning made the relative hush of the rest of the glockenspiel-keys-centered show that much more enjoyable.  What a contrast!  Talk-box harmonies were also quite a treat.


Video is from allenhsieh @youtube

Mr. Little Jeans Covers Arcade Fire. Plus Free Show in July

At some point a google image search for "Mr. Little Jeans" stopped producing the Wes Anderson source material: 

And started spamming me with some cute girl with a fake mustache:

I guess I don't really mind.  She does make good music, and she will be performing for free on July 8th at noon on Grand Avenue.

Check out her cover of Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs"

and this little bleep-bloop pop number: