enjoy press » Business http://enjoypress.com Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 L.A. Record’s SXSW Showcase http://enjoypress.com/business/la-records-sxsw-showcase http://enjoypress.com/business/la-records-sxsw-showcase#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:49:13 +0000 Sé http://enjoypress.com/?page_id=122 Independent Los Angeles music magazine L.A. RECORD will present its first-ever official showcase at SXSW in Austin on Thursday, March 19, featuring an all-L.A. line-up of local legends and about-to-break new artists including BLU and EXILE, BUSDRIVER, THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE, VERY BE CAREFUL, BLANK BLUE, and CASTLEDOOR.

The showcase will be held at The Independent, an artists’ collective located at 501 N. I-35, a few blocks from the Austin Convention Center downtown. Doors are at 8 PM. This is an official SXSW event and badges are accepted for access.

L.A. RECORD is L.A.’s biggest music publication. Founded in 2005, the independent monthly magazine was the first to put bands and musicians like Cold War Kids, Flying Lotus, No Age and Crystal Antlers on a cover. L.A. RECORD has just finished its third full year of publication, including interviews with RZA, Nick Cave, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Wale, M83, and Brian Wilson, as well as the last-ever interview with Isaac Hayes.

L.A. RECORD will also feature a comprehensive guide to L.A.-releated SXSW events in its March issue, and will be co-presenting several free, all-ages shows during SXSW.

About the bands

Headliner BLU was recently featured on the cover of XXL and was described as “the savior of West Coast hip-hop” in the L.A. Weekly. He has just signed to Warner and will be performing with longtime collaborator EXILE, with whom he released his landmark Below The Heavens album.
BUSDRIVER’s firehose flow and wordcram poetry are well-known to Los Angeles hip-hop fans. Pitchfork calls him an “underground wunderkind” and the New York Times has praised his “inventive rhymes and complex commentary on politics and culture.” He will be appearing with noted locals Nosaj Thing and AntiMC.
Cumbia-and-vallenato-inspired VERY BE CAREFUL have been fusing music from North and South America for almost ten years now. “It is top-grade organic dance music, a South American alternative to James Brown’s funk,” reports London’s Independent. Their New Year’s Eve shows are a Los Angeles institution.
The Henry Clay People THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE are one of the hardest-working bands in Los Angeles and their Pavement-meets-Paul Westerberg rock ”n’ roll has propelled them most recently into a national tour with the Airborne Toxic Event. The Los Angeles Times called them a “must-see” for those who like their pop “smart, fast and fun.”
BLANK BLUE is internationally known hip-hop producer NOBODY and friends performing live psychedelic rock like Os Mutantes or the United States of America. The band “moves from from shoegaze soundwalls to blissed little gems that could be soft moments from Spiritualized or Telescopes were it not for the drum murmurs in the background,” says L.A. Weekly.
CASTLEDOOR are a Silverlake indie rock six-piece featured in the Los Angeles Times for their “exuberant boy-girl harmonies and layered guitars and keyboards.” They released their newest EP Til We Sink this summer and are currently recording new material.
]]> http://enjoypress.com/business/la-records-sxsw-showcase/feed 0 Origami Records http://enjoypress.com/business/origami-records http://enjoypress.com/business/origami-records#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:30:14 +0000 Charlie http://enjoypress.com/?page_id=90 Origami Records will enjoy a March residency at the Echo with more than a dozen Origami bands, including Wait. Think. Fast., Summer Darling, Writer, and Dame Satan.

The Monday-night residency also highlights the grand opening of Origami Vinyl, the label’s vinyl-only record shop two doors from the Echo on Sunset Blvd.

Monday, March 2
Summer Darling · The Hectors · Writer · The Monolators · DJ Velvet Touch

Monday, March 9
Wait.Think.Fast.· Summer Darling · Shiloe · Two Guns · DJ Christopher Roman of Get Yer Rocks Off!

Monday, March 16
Wait. Think. Fast. · Dame Satan · VOICEsVOICEs · The Late Birds

Monday, March 30
Wait. Think. Fast. · Summer Darling · Kissing Cousins · Lassie Foundation

About the bands

Wait.Think.Fast.

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Wait. Think. Fast.’s single “Cien Fuegos” was chosen as KCRW’s Top Tune of the Day (Jan ‘09) and by NPR’s Second Stage as Song of the Day (Dec 08). Interview and live segments from the bilingual band’s Pershing Square “Spaceland on Ice” performance aired on MTV3 and Galeria Alternativa, and the band performed on-air for Univision’s Tu Estilo and Primer Edicion, and Telemundo’s Buenos Diaz. The quartet, fronted by Argentinean-born vocalist and pianist Jacqueline Santillan, has also enjoyed airplay on Indie 103, KROQ, KXLU, KSPC and KPFK, including a live performance on KPFK’s Travel Tips for Aztlan. The band received several “best of 2008″ nods, including best song of 2008 from The Saucido Slant and a worth-your-attention shout out from Buzzbands.la.

The songs are solid without being rigid, and pretty without being cloying. My fave is the breezy, LA-atmospheric “Cien Fuegos,” on which … Santillan floats seductive Spanish over a Beach Boys/Radiohead/Elliott Smith vibe. – LA Weekly

Summer Darling

wait. think. fast

After releasing three EPs in 2008, showcasing their “dynamic and symphonic sound,” Summer Darling is currently in the studio working on their first full length for Origami. The as-yet-unnamed album is being co-produced with Sean Foye and will be out in late 2009.

Summer Darling is simply one of the best bands in Los Angeles – LA-Underground.net

Writer

The band keeps the music low enough in the mix that Andy’s words are discernable. He’s saying, “Don’t feel bad even though you should” over and over again until, inevitably, I’m feeling-not necessarily bad, but I’m definitely feeling something-and it feels pretty good. … I’m reminded of why I like music so much. Music and art express sentiments that can’t always be put into quotable lines. - San Diego City Beat

… a speed-addled charge of pulsing, punk-popped pop, one that mixes the catchy bubblegum of ’50s rock and the headiness of ’60s pop with the wild-eyed glow of ’70s punk. … the Monolators are one of the most reliable and frantically, consistently entertaining rock bands in the local music scene, even when they don’t close out a show with nine bassists and a massive gong. – web in front

The Hectors

Smart, edgy pop. The Hectors have a sense of humor to go along with their pop chops, which is only natural when you consider the L.A. quartet has influences ranging from the syrupy to Fugazi. It has the poppy ‘Cold Star,’ an anxious ditty called ‘Carol and Sanford,’ and the brooding ‘I Drove All the Way From Bridgeport to Make It With You.’ – LA Times

Shiloe

… they’ve got a dark Sonic Youth/Interpol sound that isn’t hard to become addicted to. Their not-enough-of-a-good-thing 5-track EP features the shared-track Alarms and even though it’s early January, I think this song is likely to end up on many year-end best-of lists. Mine, at least! Highly recommended. – Local Vertical

Dame Satan

The instrumentation was boilerplate Americana–acoustic guitars, banjos, resonator guitars, bass and maybe even a mandolin–but the execution was closer to chamber music meets jazz. The influences, among them British folk, English post-psychedelic blues rock, spare Delta blues and the sort of weird Americana the Grateful Dead sometimes hinted at, melded into an original whole whose presence was rather startling. – Sacramento News & Review

Kissing Cousins

Over three EPs for Orange County-based Velvet Blue Music, Kissing Cousins are happily all over the map — dispensing infectious girl-pop, slightly bent balladry and spiky anthems with schoolgirl enthusiam and postgradute aplomb. It’s never too serious, though — at a recent show at the Echo, they also dispensed cotton candy. – LA Times

VOICEsVOICEs

These two lovely ladies don’t just make “pretty” music – they create sensational, astro-projecting euphoria. Nico Turner and Jenean Farris have been compared to non-lyrical band Explosions in the Sky, yet the music of VOICEsVOICEs takes one to a whole other world. Their use of pedals, looping, spellbinding vocals, and heartrending drumming have even gotten fans to feel a sexual charge throughout their performances. – BeatCrave

The Lassie Foundation

It finds the simplest ways of saying the most beautiful things. The most honest ways of making the past sound like the present. Curveball turns of structure disguised as pop song-writing formula, outros twice as long as they should be (only found in the end to be the perfect length), an almost-too-long instrumental sequence falling into a nearly-too-late chorus, tying itself together and fading into the dark. First times feel like subtle memories and simple gestures take heart. – Patrol Magazine

Two Guns

… carving circumference around bedrock band inspirations like Elliot Smith, Wilco and Radiohead … and keeping space within for carefully plotted pop that wears a McCartney/Rhodes comparison snugly. – The District Weekly

… a feeling of twilight, of dusk, of that strange time of day when the land is changing tone and shape permeates Insomnia. You feel it in songs like “Blue Horses,” whose anguised, lovelorn lyrics are not so much sung but confessed into the microphone, fusing at some point with the fuzzed-out bassline and prickly guitar. You feel it in “Set Free the Radio,” a rollicking rock song, seemingly a message from another decade … – Stranded In Stereo
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