Here’s a little taste of all the bands that will be performing tonight at the Echoplex for The New Los Angeles Folk Festival’s MURDER BALLADS Halloween bonanza. Arrive at 8 pm tonight so you don’t miss anything. These bands will each perform a couple classic murder ballads in celebration of dark tradition. Frank Fairfield “Nine [...]
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GET PSYCHED FOR MURDER BALLADS TONIGHT
October 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Newsflash: Murder Ballads lineup
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments
The lineup for the Murder Ballads event organized by LA RECORD’s Daiana Feuer and James Cartwright (aka The New Los Angeles Folk Festival) has been announced. Taking the stage on Oct 26 with their renditions of old murder ballads will be: Frank Fairfield, Simon Stokes, Boy Scout Jamboree (Spindrift acoustic), Vaud & The Villains, Amanda [...]
AUG. 1: RUTHANN FRIEDMAN + HORSE THIEVES + TOMMY SANTEE KLAWS + RT N’ THE 44′S + SUNDAYS SOUNDTRACK + FORT KING
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments
ZIG ZAG WANDERER: HORSE THIEVES, FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE
October 20th, 2009 · 8 Comments
I wound up at the Echoplex instead, getting the joy of seeing one of L.A.’s wondrous little surprises, He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister. Cali country is something I love with the fervor of a late convert, since even Buck Owens was little more than some jackass on TV until I moved my Dixie-fried ears out here for an accidental steeping in the Bakersfield Sound and its many variants. Robert Kolar and Felipe Ceballos from tough indie wide-boys Lemon Sun contribute heavily to Brother/Sister, with the whole, shifting, multi-piece concatenation in the great line of Gram Rabbit and the Parson Red Heads in the insistence on coupling the High with the Lonesome.
THE COWBOY SHOW @ UNKNOWN THEATER
August 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Country-clad strangers huddled around the bar and red-lit couches, holding beers and cookies rather than guns. The DJ played Hank Williams between bands until they ran out of his material, then Loretta Lynn took over. Chilling on the tiered chairs within The Cowboy Show’s intimate vibe, the audience sat rapt, almost hypnotized, every time a band took stage.
AMANDA JO WILLIAMS: I SAW HIM BEING BORN
August 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments
L.A. RECORD likes fresh and spicy meat. We couldn’t wait for Amanda Jo Williams to wipe the dust gathered on her Jumbo Western in the long cross-country trek. Her quirky country style lets her be as comfortable strumming songs about sex as she (and her twins) are rhyming about poop. This interview by Daiana Feuer.
