happy friday: i think you are great

Happy Friday. Love for everyone.

I Think U Are Great - Yellow Ostrich by jokerwoman

infogram/fyf fest

I just wanted to make sure you all are aware that F*ck Yeah Fest Fest is coming up soon! Labor Day weekend! I've provided the site link HERE so you can buy tickets online, and they even list local record stores so that you can buy your tickets there instead and skip the (middle)-man. Get your tickets! Go to the show! If you haven't been, it's really fantastically fab. It's in downtown LA, it's $40, it's got an AMAZING lineup of bands including Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky, Simian Mobile Disco, Girls, No Age, Cults... Just look at the pretty picture above and read the pretty words.

lollapalooza withdrawals mix/ for you!!

I've been on a non-stop lolla artist binge since I got back. Can't believe it's been over a week already. In celebration of my week-long remembrance,  I've put together a playlist on 8tracks.

8tracks, if you aren't hip to it's heat already, is a site that lets members make digital mixtapes to share with whomever, AND it just got listed in TIME Magazine as one of the 50 best websites of 2011 (Read up on the rest of them here TIMELinketyLink). So check it out and make your own mix- it's just like the old days of emotionally-drenched-i-secretly-love-you mixtapes, but without the cassettes, glitter, lisa frank stickers, sharpies... in a word, streamlined.

So here's my mix, I made it for you, I made it for me. xo

music find/ oh my rockness

I, while a blogger myself, understand the limits of blogs. I understand that truly, if I am only telling you oh-so-self-importantly that I love this or that band, I'm not really doing a service to anyone. What I mean is, if you listen to a track on my blog and decide that you like it, what options am I giving you to be an active participant in the listener/artist relationship? I would like to think that if anything, I would be able to give you a way to go experience your new-found interest at a live show.

Enter my newest discovery and obsession: Oh/My/Rockness. It's a website dedicated to listing each and every indie rock show in the city, at every venue- big and small and microscopic and barely existing. How else are you supposed to know where your favorite un-signed band who totally doesn't have a website yet is playing? This website is AMAZING, and although the link I posted sends you to the LA version of the site, there are other city sites as well. 

In one day of perusing, I already found out that crunchy, distorted, tin-can recorded, Asian-Elvis,  Dirty Beaches is playing next week in my area for free. And I'm going. So thank you, Oh My Rockness- my day planner now looks like a year round music festival.

The video below is a perfect representation of Dirty Beaches, just move it up to the 30 second mark. 

work in progress.

I was recently reinvigorated, but I haven't quite been able to bottle up all of the creative sparks of energy that are floating around my head all firefly-fashion. A three day trip to Chicago was apparently all I needed to turn the volume back on in my life. My ears are open, and since I've been consistently going to more shows than ever, I've got a lot to say about my newfound appreciation for the independently-run, sweat-splattered, claustrophobia-inducing dive venues we've got in this sprawling city of ours. Just got to sit down and focus. think. write. share. create. You know, all the good stuff.

While I'm working on that, you work on enjoying this track by Bleached, a band I recently got to see at the Smell in downtown LA. Local band, old school, low-fi, garage rock.  

Bleached, "Think of You" by The FADER