Best New Bands » Rob Getzschman http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Henry Clay People at the Echoplex http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/henry-clay-people-at-the-echoplex/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/henry-clay-people-at-the-echoplex/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:00:00 +0000 It’s not technically accurate to say the Henry Clay People’s 2nd Annual Rock and Roll Circus “came to town” Friday night, since most of the acts on the bill are from around these parts, but the event was a spectacle nonetheless. The night featured electric sets at the Echoplex by a bunch of HCP friends

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  1. Q&A: Joey Siara of The Henry Clay People It has been a busy year for The Henry Clay People. Like the great compromiser, the Los Angeles-based outfit has seen years of hard work pay off in 2010. With the release of its album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast,...
  2. Matt and Kim to Play the Henry Fonda on 10/2 When you open any legitimate dictionary and flip to the word “fun,” one of the examples will almost certainly be “seeing Matt and Kim perform live.” The reason that they have earned that spot in Webster’s, and in the hearts...
  3. Photos: These United States @ Echoplex Just because you can’t ever get too much media from any one event, here are some photos from These United States at the Echoplex: Click through to see more or click on a photo to see the hi-res versions on...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/philosophy/jeep-techno-vs-ayn-rand/feed/ 0 I bet you never saw this Turner Cody video http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/i-bet-you-never-saw-this-turner-cody-video/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/i-bet-you-never-saw-this-turner-cody-video/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:37:00 +0000 I first met Turner Cody in 2000 at the famed Balloon Heaven studio in Jersey City, where many an antifolk record was cut. He had a session before me, a cute girl with him, and sunglasses in the late evening. From his first record, Turner’s music was always pure poetry over music, almost like Leonard

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  1. Modest Mouse video is creatively disturbing There’s a lot of talky writing about this Modest Mouse vid over at BoingBoing, including a link to the making-of, but I’d just say watch it and appreciate all the very creative and very disturbing things happening here. I, for...
  2. Smooth jazz Beck video: Saxx Laws I’m not sure why this smooth jazz cover of Beck’s Sexx Laws never took off. It seems like a perfectly quiet-storm way to start your day, with a cameo from Jack Black to boot. via Beck.com s=”50″ class=”textarea”>...
  3. David Liebe Hart and Adam Papagan at Echo Curio The first time I saw Daniel Johnston play, I wasn’t properly briefed on the phenomenon. I only knew everyone in the NYC antifolk scene worshipped this legendary songwriter from Austin. So when an old, obese guy took the stage in...
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  1. Aw, KISS. You’re so silly! It is hard for me to believe that they have been sex monsters and the scourge of parents, or that anyone ever thought their music was the devil’s music. Maybe it was the devil’s grandpa’s music. The distance and height...
  2. Fred Van Vactor: Everything Good All At Once Well, recently I saw Fred in Eugene, and he told me his first album was almost ready, and that he’d send me a copy. I’d only been home a few days when it arrived, and I love it. “Leaving Eugene”...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/reviews/would-you-call-this-onomatopoeia-vampire-weekend-white-sky/feed/ 0 Wolfmother demands a passion for guitar tone, meaningless lyrics http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/wolfmother-demands-a-passion-for-guitar-tone-meaningless-lyrics/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/wolfmother-demands-a-passion-for-guitar-tone-meaningless-lyrics/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:59:00 +0000 I remember seeing a Wolfmother video about five years ago and thinking, that’s some kinda guitar tone. I’ll have to look into them. A couple weeks ago I saw that they had a new album out and thought, now I should check out their first album. (I usually like to be about five years behind

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  1. John Maxfield, guitar, piano, laptop He didn’t have a band surrounding him, but John Maxfield rocked a small Whiskey crowd with acoustic guitar, keyboard and laptop providing the odd drum track Monday night. Moving between instruments, Maxfield put on a show perhaps better suited to...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/wolfmother-demands-a-passion-for-guitar-tone-meaningless-lyrics/feed/ 0 Tonight: The Dance Party, chicks in bikinis http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/tonight-the-dance-party-chicks-in-bikinis/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/tonight-the-dance-party-chicks-in-bikinis/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:05:00 +0000 For those that haven’t sampled the ’00′s response to the ’80s, tonight is the night for you, because The Dance Party is playing another show at Crazy Girls, which is something of a strip club, but it can hardly be called a strip club since all the girls wear bikinis, so it’s more like a

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  1. There is a password for a free show tonight by The Dance Party In case you missed their recent strip-club show, our darling gents The Dance Party are playing a show at the Viper Room tonight, and there’s a password to get in for the low-low price of free. This gives the event...
  2. On the fence about Friday night, LA? Here’s an easy fix for your Friday night social woes: some guy who you’ve never met’s birthday party! But don’t be weirded out, because The Dance Party will be there playing their relentlessly radio-ready pop rock. Have you not seen...
  3. Leona cops out; cops to it. Tonight I attended (part) of the final show on the “Perez Hilton Presents” tour at the Avalon in Hollywood. I got the tickets about a month ago when I was in a frenzy of attending concerts. I hadn’t been at...
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  1. Modest Mouse video is creatively disturbing There’s a lot of talky writing about this Modest Mouse vid over at BoingBoing, including a link to the making-of, but I’d just say watch it and appreciate all the very creative and very disturbing things happening here. I, for...
  2. caught here in our lab coats, but without a science: If you guys know me in real life, or have even maybe encountered me on a street corner, you’ve without a doubt heard me extoll the virtues of WHY?. This band is so good, sometimes I’ll think about that simple fact...
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  1. Need rehearsal space? Try a parking garage Last night after a shoot on the UC Irvine campus, I was met with the distant promise of blistering guitar licks and the steady pulse of drums echoing across the campus. I pictured college kids jamming in some social center,...
  2. John Shipe at The Gypsy Den in Santa Ana John Shipe, a good friend of mine from Eugene, has been parked in San Diego for the last six months, and he finally played a couple of shows in Orange County recently. His shows on January 30th and March 6th...
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