One of the main peeps behind L’KEG Gallery [which caught fire in 2010!], D.I.Y. curator and show organizer Walt! Gorecki shares his top 10 picks for the Best Album Art Released In 2010: 1. Kyle Ranson – Warm Slime (Thee Oh Sees) Walt Gorecki: Kyle Ranson’s work is extremely visceral making him a perfect fit [...]

[Read more →]

Gazing down through the harp strings to glimpse Newsom singing her intricate melodies, I couldn’t shake the notion that this was the most beautiful performance I’ve ever heard. A case of hyperbole in my head? Perhaps, but that was how it felt in the fanciness of the moment.

[Read more →]

Two members of the same band each give L.A. Record their favorite albums of the Aughties! Which albums will overlap? Which will cancel each other out? Is the inclusion of “Ex Models” a vicious personal swipe at someone? And will L.A. Record EVER run out of top ten lists of the Aughties? Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion…

[Read more →]

Download: Joanna Newsom “’81″ (Temporarily removed by polite request of Drag City!) (from Have One On Me out Feb. 23 on Drag City)

[Read more →]

In keeping with Curio’s egalitarian populism, the night’s artists hang out among the audience until their turn in the line-up. Then, like a Happening straight out of the ‘60s, they get up and do their thing, three feet away.
Fortunately, it’s the ideal venue for an artist like Shelley Short, whose gentle crooning and guitar plucking lulled the audience into a happy trance, as though she were gathering us all around some invisible campfire.

[Read more →]

Alela Diane comes from a town that was famous first for a gold rush and is famous now for its music, which tends toward the kind of thing that would show up on a brand new anthology of American folk. She shares a song on her new album To Be Still with Michael Hurley and speaks now before a show at Hollywood Forever. This interview by Thomas McMahon.

[Read more →]