Download: “Oh Yes, Los Angeles” mixtape by When You Awake
Jody from the fantastic blog When You Awake—your sympathetic destination if homesick, lonesome, riled, fiery or any mindstates in between—presents us with this week’s mixtape, dedicated to cosmic cowboy/cowgirl rock songs about the city of Los Angeles. (City of doom and freeways, too.) Listen to Jody’s [...]
As the amps were cranked and treble set to ten, a young looking and spastic crowd, including pro-skater Andrew Reynolds shuffled and shimmied around to the delta blues inspired “Who Needs Who More.” As the notes on my sweat soaked notepad started to blur, visions of Bo Diddley fronting the Kinks ran through my head as the twenty somethings played through “Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up.” Guitarist Greg Enlow smoothly ran through riffs, rarely even having to look down at the fret board while staring blankly into the crowd of flannel shirts.
The Sonics weren’t pioneers so much as cavemen—the first humans to discover tools, fire and the absolute rudiments of chemistry. Their original ‘60s songs still sound wild and feral today, and their debut Here Are The Sonics! devours most of the million punk rock records that timidly followed it. This will be their first Los Angeles-area show ever. This interview by Dan Collins.
