I really like this band Kid British. They are as close to 4th wave ska as you can get, I suppose. They did their homework. The Specials asked them to open their 30th anniversary tour this year, so someone’s paying attention.
This is them doing an acoustic cover of Katy’s jam. I like it, thought I’d share with you.
Check out their MySpace.
So I just got back into town today and wtf- I saw all these bulletins and shit about Indie 103.1 going off the air. So I checked the website and this is what it said:
This is an important message for the Indie 103.1 Radio Audience -
Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option — to play the corporate radio game.
We have decided not to play that game any longer. Rather than changing the sound, spirit, and soul of what has made Indie 103.1 great Indie 103.1 will bid farewell to the terrestrial airwaves and take an alternative course.
This could only be done on the Internet, a place where rules do not apply and where new music thrives; be it grunge, punk, or alternative – simply put, only the best music.
For those of you with a computer at home or at work, log on to www.indie1031.com and listen to the new Indie 103.1 – which is really the old Indie 103.1, not the version of Indie 103.1 we are removing from the broadcast airwaves.
We thank our listeners and advertisers for their support of the greatest radio station ever conceived, and look forward to continuing to deliver the famed Indie 103.1 music and spirit over the Internet to passionate music listeners around the world.
This makes me pretty bummed. Indie was not perfect, but it was my favorite radio station in Los Angeles, and it’s sad to see the man take yet another thing from us.
Indie was really good to local musicians, and Mr. Shovel in particular, has been very generous to my band. We have played a ton of the Check One Two shows, and in turn have gotten a good amount of play on Indie. It was something reachable and tangible to local Los Angeles bands, and something enjoyable for everyone.
I’m just ranting, but I wonder what other people’s feelings are about this. Do you listen to internet radio? I mostly listened to the radio in my car, at home I have about a trillion songs I’ve downloaded that I haven’t listened to yet. Now that Indie is gone, will everyone have to turn to blogs to find out about new music? Will everyone stop listening to bands with instruments and only listen to blog house?
No, not like the MC5.
The Hot Tramps have a new video for their song White Panthers featuring Audrey and some other assorted villains. It also prominently features the best dog in the world, Rupert. Check it out below.
Ok, so my band used to be called Totally Radd!! and now we’re called DAZZLER.
We have some new members, who are really great, and we have new music, which we will be putting out on the internet over the next few months until we are able to release our album.
We have some shows coming up at The Echoplex, every Tuesday in November. The residency is free and brought to you by Indie 103.1′s Check One Two. If you live in LA, you should come out, I guarantee a good time.
Here is our MySpace, where the new stuff can be found. Add us if you like it.
Here is the flyer for the show next week.
Check this out:
Daryl Hall does this thing where he brings people up to his renovated 18th century homes and jams out with them. This episode is with Chromeo, and they do a bunch of Hall & Oates classics with a few Chromeo songs thrown in.
Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye from Mean Magazine on Vimeo.
So here’s a video that my friend Mya Stark made. It stars Sir Ben Kingsley as Ian MacKaye and it’s for her magazine, Mean. I think Ben Kingsley is a pretty cool guy, eh is a minor threat and doesnt afraid of anything.
This video is a few days old, but I’ve been in the outskirts of Nashville with shitty internet, so I haven’t been able to blog it. In that time, it has made the internet rounds and has been WTF’ed by Pitchfork.
So here you go.
