Mirage "Blood For The Return"

"Blood For The Return," the self-recorded debut album by Mirage aka Robin Nydall (he is a 19-year-old Dream Pop experimentalist from Los Angeles), has been available via Olde English Spelling Bee / Weird World Record Co.. Orchestral arrangements by Cliff Dweller (Ari Balouzian) contributions featuring Max Whipple (Cello/Clarinet), Spencer Frazen (Harmonies/Additional Vox), and Dash Lefrancis (Flute/Harmonies).  
Released 26 August 2014.
今年の忘れ物 #2

Cashew and Cleary

"Patrick Cleary (Silver Phial, The Digs) + Eric “Cashew” Harding (The Prix, Eagle Winged Palace) = EP of Baroque Rock & Roll with a dash of Americana Surrealism"








Both tracks are taken from Los Angeles-based duo, Cleary and Cashew's "Husbands Vol. I," the first entry in a set of forthcoming EPs.  It was recorded with Rob Campanella of The Quarter After (Beachwood Sparks, Brian Jonestown Massacre), and the additional musicians are Scott Bassman, Cheryl Lynn Caddick, Curt Harding, James Arellano, Darryll Brown, Rob Campenella. "Husbands Vol. I" is available digitally via iTunes and is also available on cassette via Wiener/Burger Records.

Brian Woodbury Music

"Brian Woodbury is a Los Angeles composer, lyricist and bandleader. He writes stage musicals, post-modern concert music, quirky pop, country songs, and music for children’s TV."

Brian Woodbury Music on Souncloud




taken from the overture from the musical "The Hammerdancer" (1983) (book, music & lyrics Brian Woodbury).

c. Brian Woodbury and His Popular Music Group

"Brian Woodbury And His Popular Music Group"
Fang Records, 1992

Introducing the Easy Sound Recording Company

Easy Sound Recording Company, a brand new label from Los Angeles, is a new home for Vetiver, Howlin' Rain, Isobel Campbell, Papercuts, the Donkeys, Rodrigo Amarante (of Little Joy), and EDJ, the new project of former Fruit Bats leader Eric D. Johnson.

スゴイ！スゴイ！　ヴェティヴァーに、ペーパーカッツのジェイソン・クエイヴァー、フルーツバッツのエリック・ジョンソンの新プロジェクトEDJ、ドンキーズ、リトル・ジョイのロドリゴ・アマランテ、ハウリン・レインも集結の新レーベル誕生。まず各々未発表トラックを収めた３枚のスプリット7"をレコードストア・デイに、ペーパーカッツ、ロドリゴ・アマランテのアルバムを５月に、ザ・ドンキーズが６月に...と続く模様デス。このレーベルを立ち上げたStephen Browerは、かつてヴァンガードやシュガーヒルのA&R、フィルム・ブログ "Pocket Cinephile"の発行人だったり、だそう。

Easy Sound Recording Co.

Introducing the Easy Sound Recording Company

'Maná,' which soundtracks this video, is taken from the first solo album "Cavalo" by Rodrigo Amarante (Little Joy), out May 6th via Easy Sound Recording Co., in France on Feb 10th via Rough Trade Records.

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Rodrigo Amarante I A Take Away Show

Mike Andrews "Spilling A Rainbow"

"For Mike, finding out that he was going to become a father was a moment when he realized that the world he was familiar with was all about to change. He went to work at his home studio outside of Los Angeles writing and recording songs that documented his life’s journey through this transformation." --Everloving Records

Michael Andrews - Spilling A Rainbow by KPCC

Originally from San Diego, Michael Andrews (aka Elgin Park of The Greyboy Allstars) is a L.A.-based multi-faceted musician/producer/film composer who has scored music for cult classics “Donnie Darko”, “Me and You and Everyone We Know” and the TV series “Freaks and Geeks,” as well as Hollywood films like Jake Kasdan’s “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” and Duplass Bros.' "Cyrus" and more, also he has collaborated with artists like Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, Brendan Benson, Gary Jules, and many others. His second solo effort "Spilling A Rainbow," recorded at his home studio outside of Los Angeles with his fellow engineers Dan Long and Steve Kaye, is due out on August 14th via Everloving. The album includes a cover of Roy Harper’s “Forever.”

WATCH :: Michael Andrews Animated Music Video, "Bubbles In Space" under the professional production of, Joshua Hassin.

ところで、始まりにはブライアン〜ペット・サウンズのコラボレーターとしての功績があれど、ヴァン・ダイク・パークスへの敬愛の連鎖を辿ってみると、ジョアンナ・ニューサムの2ndにヴァン・ダイク・パークスを招いたジム・オルークがいて、それからジョアンナのツアーで単身オープニング・アクトを務めたロビン・ペックノルド（フリート・フォクシーズ）、ベラ・ユニオンからのヴァン・ダイクの名作３タイトル再発を祝うロンドンでのショーにペックノルドと共に参加するグリズリー・ベアのダニエル・ロッセン。これとはきっと別経路で、ヴァン・ダイクのコラボレーター、イナラ・ジョージ（ザ・バード&ザ・ビー）のダンナさんが映画監督のジェイク・カスダン（ローレンス・カスダンの息子）で、マイケル・アンドリュースが映画音楽を手がけていくきっかけになったのがジェイクの初監督作品『Zero Effect』、そしてマイケルがイナラにヴァン・ダイクを紹介され、彼女のヴァン・ダイクとのコラボ作『An Invitation』(2008) をプロデュースしたという....。 
(Mike, Don Heffington, Van Dyke - Photo by Laura Heffington.)

Intelligence with Kelley Stoltz

The Intelligence w/ Kelley Stoltz - (They Found Me In The Back Of) The Galaxy

'(They Found Me In The Back Of) The Galaxy' 7" single (b/w 'Lake Of Dracula') was just released as a preview for The Intelligence's upcoming "Everybody's Got It Easy But Me" album via In The Red, they teamed up with San Francisco singer / multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz (The Sonny & The Sunsets) on that song. Pressed in an edition of 600 - the first 200 on yellow vinyl. 

The Intelligence are the brainchild of Lars Finberg (formerly of A-Frames, currently of Thee Oh Sees and Wounded Lion). Around since 1999, The Intelligence has to date released seven singles, five split singles, two EPs, seven albums and have made eight compilation appearances. They join the ranks of hyper-prolific artists like Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall in the impossible-to-stay-on-top-of department.

Gregory Rogove "Piana"

"Piana" is the latest release by Gregory Rogove, best known for his work in Priestbird, Megapuss, and Devendra Banhart and The Grogs. The album is his first collection of instrumental, solo piano pieces inspired by Erik Satie and Claude Debussy, all music were composed by himself and performed by John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood). It also includes a DVD of visual and musical remixes. Available now on Knitting Factory Records.  
PIANA REMIX MUSIC BY: The Bees, Violens, Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood), Natalia Lafourcade, Devendra Banhart, Storms, Hecuba, Carly Margolis, Adam Green, Lucky Dragons.

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Gregory Rogove - Jackyl
from the album "PIANA," available now on Knitting Factory Records
Directed & Animated by Gregory Rogove and Diana Garcia
Cinematography by Autumn Durald / Edited by Phillip Gadrow

WATCH more :: SUNKEN SHIPS video by Steve & George Gorrow


Gregory Rogove - Jackyl (Violens Remix) by KnittingFactoryRecords

Sunken Sh-illy (Sunken Ships) (Billy Martin Remix) by KnittingFactoryRecords

Our Orthodox

Album art by William Schaff

Our Orthodox - We're Not The Only Ones


Our Orthodox is a recording project by Neal Harris, a Pacific Northwest native transplanted in Los Angeles. Its latest album "We Are Not The Only Ones" is available now on the bandcamp. The album was recorded at his friend's studio, The Kitchen in Atwater Village. Neal describes that some significant influences on his sound are The Walkmen, Girls & Okkervil River.


Released 03 January 2012.
All songs performed by Neal Harris & Jens Kuross.
Produced by Neal Harris & Jeremy Carberry (Lost Ship Recording).
All songs written by Neal Harris except 'Apathy Is Stronger Than Love,'
by Jacob Bruggman (of The Good Wives).
Album art by William Schaff who's been well known for the Okkervil River's art works and also he worked for the previous Our Orthodox self-titled album (2010).



Released 09 April 2010 / Album art by William Schaff

A Conversation with the Allah-Las

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BootsnKatz.com presents:
RVCA sessions vol. II :: the Allah Las Show + Interview
shot on location at the RVCA store in Los Angeles, CA
Camera - Jeremiah Flores, Joseph Sliker
Direction, Sound, Editing - Paolo Ferrari

The Allah-Las, a Los Angeles foursome consists of Miles Michaud (vocals/guitar), Spencer Dunham (bass), Pedrum Siadatian (lead guitar), Matthew Correia (vocals/drums). Their debut single PRS 45-802: Allah-Las ‘Catamaran’ b/w ‘Long Journey’ was recorded at the Distillery in Costa Mesa, run by Mike McHugh, with Nick Waterhouse as producer, available from PRES Record Co..

Allah-Las - Catamaran

In the beginning of the Allah-Las back in 2008 ....
"Spencer and Miles grew up together, and they met Matt in high school in Manhattan Beach. Spencer and Matt got jobs at Amoeba, where they met Pedrum. Spencer still works at the music emporium, but the other two quit a while back."

Gavin Thomas Toler

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Gavin Thomas Toler - Holy Maximizer
Video by Nicolas Amato who also filmed John Maus, Ariel Pink and more.



released 30 August 2011

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, now Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Gavin Thomas Toler (formerly known as a member of Winter Flowers, Mystic Folk group formed in San Francisco) now performs and records his songpoems under his own true name. "Riding" EP is his debut release, you can download for free on his bandcamp. Vinyl coming this fall.

Jonathan Wilson "Gentle Spirit"

"On Monday 8th August Laurel Canyon folk singer, producer, musician Jonathan Wilson will release his Bella Union debut ‘Gentle Spirit’ in to the World… it is a record rooted in the spirit of Laurel Canyon sounding like a lost 70’s classic with nods to Neil Young and Roy Harper"

"Gentle Spirit" was produced by himself, recorded in Laurel Canyon, then finished in his new Five Star Studio in the Echo Park section of LA. It features legendary musicians as special guests including Barry Goldberg, Gerald Johnson and Gary Mallaber, and some friends including Gary Louris (The Jayhawks), Andy Cabic and Otto Hauser (Vetiver), Chris Robinson and Adam McDougall (Black Crowes), Johnathan Rice, among others. All songs were written by Wilson except Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Way I Feel' (1967).

"Jonathan Wilson, a native of Forest City, North Carolina, has been quietly earning a reputation as a musical jack-of-all-trades. He is adept behind the recording console, possesses a luthier's knowledge of all things strummed, and maintains the innate ability to conceptualize an instrument essential to providing the right color to a track in need of a defining detail. Whether producing promising new recording artists like the band Dawes, or collaborating with renowned artists, such as Jackosn Browne, Erykah Badu and Elvis Costello."

Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit by jonathanwilson

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'These Days' Jackson Browne, Dawes & Jonathan Wilson
at the Borderline London 20/7/2011

Devon Williams "Euphoria"

He's traveled from punk rock roots to an enviable place where power-pop meets classic 60s melodies, the best of swirling 80s-flavored production and shimmering, jangling guitars. His brilliant debut solo album Carefree, released in 2008, demonstrated a knack for crafting timeless pop that’s equal parts Brill Building and Topanga Canyon. On it, Williams hearkened back to great songwriters like Nilsson, Chilton, Downes and Westerberg. 


Devon Williams - Your Sympathy
7" single, b/w 'Sisters' (out on June 28th) from the forthcoming "Euphoria" album (Slumberland/2011)

Devon Williams - Sufferer
taken from 'Sufferer' b/w 'Who Cares About Forever' 7" single (2009), as the debut via Slumberland.

Devon Williams - Elevator
taken from the first solo album "Carefree" (Ba Da Bing/2008)


L.A. popsmith Devon Williams, formerly of the SoCal's melodic punk rock band Osker and folk/acoustic band Fingers Cut Megamachine, has a second solo full-length called "Euphoria" coming out on August 30th via Slumberland Records. A blissful shimmering pop album "Euphoria" features 12 new songs, recorded and mixed in several studios by producers like Brooklyn's Jorge Elbrecht (of the Violens) and Vancouver’s Dave Carswell, who also produced The New Pornographers and Williams’ onetime touring mate, Destroyer.  He is also known for playing in (Vivian Girls) Katy Goodman's La Sera, previously the Lavender Diamond touring band.

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Fingers-cut, Megamachine! - testament
from the 2005 self-titled album (Thick Records)


Osker - Kinetic
taken from Osker's second album "Idle Will Kill" (Epitaph/2001).

The Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes
from 'Blue Genes' 7" single (Slumberland/2009), The Champagne Socialists (Jihae Simmons Meek, former Royal We, and Wallace Meek from Glasgow) featured Devon Williams and Mickey LaFranchi. It was released as their first single after moving to Jihae's hometown of Los Angeles, CA.

(via Yuya Shimizu)

John Gold "A Flower In Your Head"

Los Angeles native singer-songwriter John Gold has released his third proper album "A Flower in Your Head," debut from Vagrant Records after having a couple of self-released albums "These Are Color Days" (2002), and "The Eastside Shake in" (2005). "A Flower In Your Head" was recorded and co-produced by drummer/producer Scott Seiver (Pete Yorn) and mixed by Shawn Everett (Weezer, Phantom Planet, Simon Dawes). Stream the album entirely on his bandcamp and soundcloud.  iTunes.


John Gold by VagrantRecords

Lucky Dragons - Heartbreaker

Lucky Dragons - Heartbreaker

taken from the "Dark Falcon" (555 Recordings, 2002), re-issued on vinyl from Marriage Records.  Based in Los Angeles, California, Lucky Dragons is an experimental music group consisting of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara.

The Lucky Dragon [Fukuryu Maru] was the name of a Japanese tuna trawler which was caught in the fallout of the United States' hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll on March 1st, 1954. All 23 members of the boat's crew suffered the effects of radiation sickness after being rained on by ash from the explosion, 500 miles away. Once the boat itself had been determined free of dangerous radiation, it was painted entirely black and put out to sea again, still for use as a fishing vessel, but re-christened The Dark Falcon.  (from the original liner notes)



Live at Farmlab (05.22.08)



from 5 song 12" vinyl "Open Power" (Teenage Teardrops, 2009)



from The Free Matter for the Blind audio zines' compilation "Free Matter for the Blind Volume 2: Farewells To Summer" (2003)

Photo by Devon Deimler

LUCKY DRAGONS - True names/ vrai noms 7" by atelier ciseaux
from True names/ vrai noms 7" (Atelier Ciseaux/2009/sold out)

Oregon Bike Trails - A Summer Thing

Oregon Bike Trails - A Summer Thing

Oregon Bike Trails is lo-fi L.A. singer/songwriter Zach Yudin.

J. Irvín Dally - Sun Room

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J. Irvín Dally - Sun Room
filmed, edited by Steve Lamme / Applehorse Media

J. Irvín Dally has released a brand new EP "Sun Room" on his bandcamp page.

Lord Huron - Mighty

Lord Huron - Mighty


'Mighty' is the title track from Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Benji Schneider (hailing from Michigan) aka Lord Huron's forthcoming EP, following up to their previous "Into The Sun" EP.

Wonder Wheel meets "Detour"

by Moduli TV

Wonder Wheel - After Dark
WW23: Brave New World (upcoming)
Video by by Francesco De Gallo and Hobo Cult
(via Rose Quartz)

Paul A. Rosales - Crimes

'Crimes' is taken from the debut release as Wonder Wheel aka Paul A. Rosales, "WONDER WHEEL I" via Care in the Community Recordings.  Wonder Wheel Blog >>

RIYL: Ariel Pink, R. Stevie Moore, Puro Instinct

Detour (1945) is a film noir cult classic that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, and Edmund MacDonald. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's novel, and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The 68-minute film was released by the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), one of the so-called "poverty row" film studios. (WIKI)

「恐怖のまわり道」 監督: エドガー･G･ウルマー

The Knuckles

Hailing from California, The Knuckles was formed in 2008 by Rodney Newman and Garrett Deloian after more than a decade of collaboration, writing, performing and producing together. The Knuckles' self-titled debut album was released November 10th/2009, it's been available on iTunes and their bandcamp page, also here.

RIYL:  Grandaddy, The Moore Brothers, NRBQ, The Mother Hips, Elliott Smith ....

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The Knuckles' video for the track "The Belle of Nowhere Now" off the debut album "The Knuckles."

Lord Huron

Lord Huron just discovered from Los Angeles, their debut digital EP "Into The Sun" is available at Bandcamp site.