We are now offering year-long L.A. RECORD subscriptions through shop.larecord.com so you can make sure that you’ll get L.A. RECORD put right in your grasping little hands every month, which is good news if you live somewhere far away and your hands can’t quite reach our distro spots. (Or if you just like to maximize [...]

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Jail Weddings drummer Brian Watson started the 13-piece cinematic jazz band Watts Ensemble after one of those wouldn’t-it-be-cool-if? barstool conversations that almost never go anywhere. With no formal compositional training, he brute-forced the music from his mind and assembled a band out of professional musicians captured on Craigslist. Their first album Crime & Time is out now. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV_ljmxD-Yc] Jail Weddings video featuring “(Do You Think We’re Gonna End Up On) Skid Row?” off their upcoming EP Inconvenient Dreams out Aug 25th on White Noise.

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Via White Noise Jail Weddings are in the midst of putting the finishing touches on their new EP, Inconvenient Dreams, which will come out on White Noise in July/Aug on vinyl, digital and very small run of CDs. Russell Simins (John Spencer Blues Explosion, etc) is meticulously mixing these 5 songs in Brooklyn right as [...]

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For six years, Jorge put on some of the best and sometimes only rock ‘n’ roll blow-outs in and around L.A., luring bands like the Phantom Surfers, the A-Bones (with Roy Loney) and the Trashwomen and the Flakes and the Okmoniks and more to the Doll Hut or the wild Stagger Inn or Mr. T’s [...]

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