My band, Lost Cabras, is getting ready to release the EP soon! Entitled Made in Cabrasfornia, the EP will have four songs, "Some Say", "Wrong Idea", "Glance", and "Clown Boat Lamp". The songs are mixed and mastered, and artwork is on it's way. We are SOOOOO excited about these songs!
I'm using the Topspin Media tools to offer up a free download ahead of the release. Enter your email into the "widget" and you'll be sent a link to the download.
Yours truly will be playing this weekend with kindercore greats, Ellen & Matt.
If you like your helping of Ellen & Matt loud and proud, come check out the whole band as we rock the Los Angeles Family School's "Green Acres Spring Fair" this Saturday, May 9th at 3:00pm.
Yours truly playing kid-friendly rawk music this weekend:
“Join us this Saturday, October 4th at 6:15 PM as we rock out at the Eagle Rock Music Festival. We'll be there with our full band as the featured performers on the Children's Stage!”
http://www.myspace.com/eaglerockmusicfestival
The festival is really quite a blast. Bands every block of all different styles. Very family friendly and hip.
Grabbed my trusty Fender Twin Reverb out of the garage today to bring it up to the office. Hadn't played in in awhile. Turned it on, tubes warmed up, plugged it in... Ahhhh!! Hello, old friend.
This is how an amp should sound like. Warm, deep, alive, real.
This is a reissue (blackface), but sounds so amazing.
Contrast this with the experience I had recently with a "blemished" Blackheart Little Giant Combo I got off of Zzounds. Came to me DOA. Loud Technologies were even kind enough to send me new tubes, but no go. Light turns on, no sounds come out. Uh... Back it goes.
Oh boy oh boy, Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story, is an unbelievably fantastic record.
Don't have it yet? Get it. For $1.99, you can can't go wrong. A great example of fine 70's rock and roll. All of The Faces are on this record, including Ron Wood.
Put some tracks of my old band from the mid/late-90's, Go Pound Salt, up on Last.fm.
http://www.last.fm/music/Go+Pound+Salt/Self-titled
They have a new artist program, so what the heck, let's try it and see.
Posted a quick demo I did last night on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lectric
Done in Garageband with one of the built-in drum samples. Drum sound is a bit cheesy, and the arrangement needs fleshed out, but wanted to get something down "on tape" and the essence is there.
Alan Sparhawk's side project, Retribution Gospel Choir, produced by and released on Mark Kozelek's (Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters) label, Caldo Verde. Nice stuff. Think Low songs with Sun Kil Moon production. We have a winner, folks.
I love Alan's songwriting, the melancholy atmosphere his songs create. Hey, they don't call it Sadcore for nuthin'!
Egg Hunt was a project with Ian Mackaye and Jeff Nelson from Minor Threat. This two song EP is the only document of this short-lived project, but the songs are fantastic examples of post-hardcore melodic rock. The songs bridge the gap between Minor Threat and Fugazi.
A nice find on Amazon. I use to have the 7-inch and haven't heard these songs for a long time.
Ampeg announced in January at NAMM a WOOD version of the classic, if not cultish Dan Armstrong guitar.
From the pictures, they looked pretty sweet and affordable at under $500 (I liked the red one, especially.) So now it's July. Where are they? A few suspect shops via google list them, and Ampeg's site still lists them as "Coming soon" (define "soon", please...)
