Get a little appetizer by listening to the bands or watching some videos.

L.A. RECORD’s St. Paddy’s Day Mixtape comes in two parts—”Traditional” drinking songs with choruses you wanna put your arms around, and “New Age” drinking songs, so you can get far out this year. Maybe try drinking upside down or mix a Guinness in your cereal.

And if you want to fake an Irish accent to impress your friends, here’s a phrase that will work anywhere. Say these words together quickly: WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED.

Download: St. Paddy’s Mixtape: Traditional Drinking Songs

Tales That I Tell – He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister
The Missus Won’t Leave Me Alone – Timo and the Back-Up Skanks
Not The Whiskey – The Mo-Ods
All Is Love In Oral Things We Do – Amanda Jo Williams
Dear Honey – Dusty Rhodes And The River Band
So Early In The Morning – Missincinatti
Liver and Onions – Combo P.A.
Crackin’ Up – Johnny O’Donnell
Georgia Moon – Shakey Graves
So, When You Comin’ By – A.B.
6yrs – Restavrant
Show Me The Way To Go Home – Roman Candles

Download: St. Paddy’s Mixtape: New Age Drinking Songs

Salt And Candy – Kid Infinity
Vile Bile - Scribe And The Aborted
Cautionary Drinking – Bloody Death Skull
Battle Hymn Of The Female Socialist Alcoholics – Man-Power
Beer – Michael Nhat
Drink On Floor – Zackey Force Funk
Mass – E and E
Johny Drink Whiskey – Shmadeo Shmead
four P.M. – howardAmb
Howl Like A Wolf – Les bicyclettes blanches
Get Wasted – The Fitz Blitz
National Jamthum – Foot Village

Thanks to all who submitted songs! The next holiday we’ll be celebrating is 4/20, so get to work now.

All the info for tomorrow’s Party Weirdo fest in Long Beach!

Download: Gangi “Commonplace Feathers”

(from A out now on White Noise)

L.A. RECORD cover alum Gangi (now with drummer Chris Hathwell from Moving Units/Festival of Dead Deer) join fellow L.A. RECORD graduates Dead Meadow, Restavrant, 60 Watt Kid, Rainbow Arabia, Scotty Coats and more at Long Beach’s first-ever Party Weirdo fest this Saturday! We’ll be DJ-ing the main stage in the evening and then enjoying the rest of the fest and especially looking forward to Pubes dropping in from orbit for an obliterative finale. All ages until 10 PM so please come and visit if you can!

L.A. RECORD is happy to team up with the Academy, WESC and Crush Brothers to present this all-day-til-last-call event in downtown Long Beach at the Basement with L.A. RECORD alums like Dead Meadow, Rainbow Arabia, Restavrant, 60 Watt Kid, Scotty Coats and our superhuman Cha Cha buddy DJ Pubes plus many more! Stay tuned for more updates and info and hope to see you there!

Spindrift [INTERVIEW]

Restavrant [INTERVIEW] [REVIEW]

How ’bout filling your pipe with electro-tinged ho-made hillbilly music? The bass kicking comes in clear, but a clubby paradiddle irks alongside the slide guitar, as if a glowstick got dropped in a barrel o’ moonshine. A beer bottle precariously placed between a jostling knee cap and a tin gasoline can gets smacked by a drumstick thick as a chair leg and goes flying back at the wall. Smash. Hot bodies. Was that out loud? The contours of hot bodies. Ah, this thought has Tourette’s. You must get some very calloused hands from all that working out—I mean streamline pick-less strumming on a gee-tar. Equally intent on experimental beer spilling as percussionist J State, Troy Olaf Murrah slides a botttle up and down his fret board, twanging country roads home to gold-toothed crawdads. In a gruff froggy voice he announces they’re moving to Vancouver, going on hiatus, this will be the last show, which happens to be the (Sparks-sponsored—yay!) release party for Returns to the Tomb of Guiliano Medidici. It’s a joke. Maybe they’ll go to Vancouver, riding a wagon packed full of jangling license plates tied together with bra straps. My Pet Saddle and Dirt Dress properly greased our wheels for Restavrant (note the new spelling), with garagey blues and gangly pop swagger, like Lou Reed playing Duck Hunt on a merry-go-round against unassumingly preppy juvenile delinquents.

—Daiana Feuer

Stream: Restaurant “Joe D”

Congratulations to L.A. RECORD alums Restaurant on the release of their Returns To the Tomb of Guiliano Medici album on Narnack, and also for getting the Muslims and Dirt Dress to open! They did one of our favorite interviews back in Vol. 2 that you can check out here, and they also got everyone in Charlie O’s to flip out and roll around on the ground on a Thursday night at midnight. Quality guys! And remember: “Every day is Christmas with Easterling Motors!”