East L.A.’s Los Lobos have signed with L.A.’s Shout! Factory—home to releases by such diverse personalities as Dave Alvin, Roky Erickson, John Coltrane and Optimus Prime—for their 18th full-length, which is yet untitled and without an exact release date. The band will be touring for most of the rest of the year. More info below: [...]
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LOS LOBOS SIGN WITH SHOUT! FACTORY FOR 18TH ALBUM, ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES
June 11th, 2009 · No Comments
THE SWEET: IF YOU DON’T GET THE HUMOR, YOU’RE A BIT SLOW
April 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
As bassist and co-vocalist of nonpareil Britrock jesters the Sweet, Steve Priest provided the wobbly floor beneath megabuck Top Ten capers like ‘Little Willie,’ ‘Fox on the Run’ and ‘Ballroom Blitz.’ After spurning the temptation to take his old band back out on the road until 2006, Priest finally answers ‘Uh-huh’ to the musical question, ‘Are you ready, Steve?’ This interview by Ron Garmon.
ZIG ZAG WANDERER: FAUXCHELLA, FAUST, FRIEDMAN AND THE SWEET
April 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Orders from the Fire Marshal sent the marathon Fauxchella festival packing from the announced Traction Ave. venue earlier in the week, but by showtime on Good Friday organizers had moved the event to gamier precincts many blocks away. Hangar 1018 is beloved of the downtown party set and I know the space well, having wandered along its sketchy and verminous stretch of S. Santa Fe many times in various states of hallucinogenic inebriation. Inside, instead of the usual haul of faux-fur and near-naked ladies, were a couple hundred gamboling on the fragments of their Eastside Cool. I was waved past the door by promoters spoke cheerily of the ultraviolence they’d already visited upon everyone else inquiring after The List.
