It’s 420, a holiday celebrated many different ways. Some smoke it out. But it’s so hot today, it’s turned us on. We’re getting dirty. Here’s some of our favorite sexually explicit songs, collected from staff and friends. Check out the playlist on Youtube at this link. Then go watch some of these songs performed live [...]

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God, is this band filthy with talented folks. Sometimes I get the feeling that there’s a secret collective going on, with members that rotate between Jail Weddings and Dante vs. Zombies and Raw Geronimo and Swahili Blonde and Johnny O’Donnell and White Murder, and that when “Jail Weddings” plays, it just means it’s Gabe Hart’s turn to conduct the collective.

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This is a super-group made up of members from some already awesome bands: Jail Weddings, Death Hymn Number 9, the Red Onions, the Commotions, even This Moment in Black History!?! And maybe I’m just a sucker for the simplicity and the dueling female lead singers, but White Murder might just turn out to be better than all of them.

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Valentine’s2012 Mixtape by karaokefever

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L.A. Record + The New L.A. Folk Fest + Grand Ole Echo are co-hosting The Return Of Murder Ballads tonight at the Echoplex. Here is the lineup of musicians performing songs about killing times! For more info, go to the folk fest website. Get a little appetizer by listening to the bands or watching some [...]

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SWAHILI BLONDE, JAIL WEDDINGS, CORRIDOR, AND CHAINS OF LOVE ON MONDAY OCT. 17TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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Jail Weddings is making a video for each of the 13 songs on its album, Love Is Lawless. This first one was directed by Kyle Safieh and all the fancy editing comes from Ryan Andrus. Download the song for free here. “I Thought You Were Someone I Knew” makes us want to be drunk and [...]

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A-side “Some Place” is risen-from-the-crypt Savage Kick early ’60s R&B. It’s like nourishment and medicine at once: barely-there back-ups, honk-honk sax, a fall-down-the-back-stairs guitar solo and a single-finger piano line that pokes a hole in the back of your head.

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L.A. RECORD and dublab co-hosted a live holiday spectacular featuring bands performing at this Saturday’s L.A. RECORD Xmas Party! L.A. RECORD executive editor Daiana Feuer wrangled Tommy Santee Klaws, the Driftwood Singers, John Carpenter, Jail Weddings and He’s My Brother She’s My Sister into the dublab studio for live sets and livelier conversation. (And don’t [...]

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