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Hype Machine Radio

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If you haven’t already, go check out the Hype Machine Radio Show.

Every month, the good people at Hype Machine put together a “showcase of the hottest music and bloggers from around the world”. I started listening to the shows about three or four months ago and every show introduces me to new music (including the tracks below) and blogs. You can stream each show online or simply download the shows for future enjoyment (they’re great for long car trips).

hotel cafe, live music

SNOW & VOICES at HOTEL CAFE 8.11.10

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Snow & Voices, the collaborative duo of Lauri Kranz and Jebin Bruni, are playing at Hotel Cafe (one of absolute favorite venues in LA) this coming Wednesday night. Sharing a bill with Frazey Ford of The Be Good Tanyas, this is definitely a show you’ll want to check out if you aren’t busy…and let’s be honest, it’s a Wednesday night in the Summer, I doubt you have anything better to be doing.

Snow & Voices newest album, Anything That Moves, is out now courtesy of Elastic Ruby Records. Along with Kranz and Bruni, a stellar collective of LA area musicians lend their talents, both live and in the studio. Anything That Moves, the band’s third album to date, is a multi-layered aural landscape that further solidifies the moody dream-pop sound they’ve become known for (check out my favorite track, mistress, below).
Snow & Voices is scheduled to go on at 10pm (get there at 7pm if you want to check out Frazey Ford).
Hotel Cafe is located at 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (between Hollywood and Sunset Blvd.)
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ON THE ROAD: WAVVES

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Wavves is bringing it’s lo-fi, noise pop sound across North America this Summer and Fall. With plenty of stops all over the country (including 8 shows in California!), there really isn’t any reason to miss out.

AUGUST
12 San Diego, CA – Museum of Contemporary Art
13 Pomona, CA – The Glass House (w/ Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, & the Growlers)
14 Portland, OR – Berbati’s Pan (w/ the Cool Kids)
16 Santa Barbara, CA – Soho
17 Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place
18 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
25 Seattle, WA – Neumos
26 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore
27 Victoria, British Columbia – Sugar
30 Sacramento, CA – Sol Collective
31 Visalia, CA – Howie and Sons Pizza


SEPTEMBER
04 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
10 Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone Cafe
11 St. Louis, MO – Billiken Club
14 Bloomington, IN – Rhinos
15 Columbus, OH – Skully’s
16 Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place
17 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street Nightclub
18 Waltham, MA – Brandeis University
20 Providence, RI – Met Cafe
24 Kingston, NY – 323 Wall Street
25 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
27 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel
28 Greensboro, NC – Guilford College
29 Charlotte, NC – Milestone
30 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn

OCTOBER
01 Nashville, TN – Exit / In
02 Oxford, MS – Proud Larrys
20 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden (w/ Phoenix & Dirty Projectors)
21 Montreal, Quebec – CEPSUM (w/ Phoenix & Dirty Projectors)
22 Toronto, Ontario – Ricoh Colliseum (w/ Phoenix & Dirty Projectors)
26 Orlando, FL – House of Blues (w/ Phoenix & Dirty Projectors)

NOVEMBER
06 Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest


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ON THE ROAD: BEST COAST

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(Best Coast live @ the Echoplex 3.27.10)


Best Coast is heading out this Fall to sing her “songs about summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep”. She’ll be making stops all over America (including 2 stops in SoCal) and one stop in London.


SEPTEMBER
04 Los Angeles, CA – F Yeah Fest
07 Philadelphia, PA – 1st Unitarian Church
08 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
09 Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Fest
10 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn (w/ Cults)
11 Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light (w/ Cults)
12 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge (w/ Cults)
14 St. Louis, MO – Gargoyle (w/ Male Bonding)
15 Appleton, WI – Lawrence University (w/ Male Bonding)
16 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock (w/ Male Bonding)
18 Chicago, IL – Metro (w/ Male Bonding, Titus Andronicus, & Free Energy)
21 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop (w/ Male Bonding)
22 Columbus, OH – Summit (w/ Male Bonding)
23 Cincinnati, OH – MPMF (w/ Male Bonding)
24 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick (w/ Male Bonding)
25 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace (w/ Male Bonding)
27 Montreal, Quebec – La Sala Rossa (w/ Male Bonding)
28 Boston, MA – Middle East (w/ Male Bonding)
29 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (w/ Male Bonding)
30 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Male Bonding)

OCTOBER
26 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
28 Portland, OR – Holocene (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
29 Vancouver, British Columbia – Cobalt (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
30 Seattle, WA – Neumo’s (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
31 Spokane, WA – Stage 54

NOVEMBER
02 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
03 Denver, CO – Bluebird (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
05 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets, Deerhunter, & Casino Versus Japan)
06 Houston, TX – Mango’s (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
07 Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest
09 Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)
10 San Diego, CA – Casbah (w/ Sonny & the Sunsets)

DECEMBER
01 London, England – Scala


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ARCADE FIRE//UNSTAGED

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If you missed out on last nights live stream, here’s a small taste. Arcade Fire live at Madison Square Garden in New York on 8/5/2010. Part of the UNSTAGED series presented by American Express. Directed by Terry Gilliam.