Photos: Light Asylum, Chelsea Wolfe, Tearist and Violet Tremors- CYP2- Echoplex
The CYP2 party folks stacked this past Tuesday’s Echoplex bill to the brim with female-fronted power: Light Asylum, Tearist, Chelsea Wolfe and Violet Tremors. Photos from the night are below and will also hit MiskaNYC’s Bloglin. FULL GALLERY HERE Violet Tremors Tearist Chelsea Wolfe Light Asylum
Photos: OFF! Record Release Show w/ FIDLAR- Whiskey a Go Go
Keith Morris, one of hardcore’s true forces through stints in Black Flag, Circle Jerks and now OFF!, is 56 and is still fucking pissed. As evident with OFF!’s 2010 EP collection as their powerful debut, Morris can still lead a band to war and continuing the battle (with pretty much most of society), the quintet...
Photos: Creators Project SF w/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zola Jesus, LCD Soundsystem DJs + more
As I mentioned, I went to San Francisco last weekend to attend and photograph the debut West Coast event from the folks at The Creators Project. Spread over two days, the multimedia festival hosted screenings, interactive art exhibits and performances from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Squarepusher, LCD Soundsystem DJs (James Murphy, Nancy Wang, Pat Mahoney), Zola...
GRAB BAG: Creators Project SF Edition
While the overwhelming majority of you are likely trudging through the promotional-product-littered streets of Austin right now on achey feet after 15 minutes of said buzz band’s set (hey! I would’ve have been down there too, but sometimes things happen), there’s another pretty neat music and arts event taking place this weekend in San Francisco to mention-...
Photos: The Soft Moon and Light Asylum- First Fridays at the Natural History Museum
With the new year comes the return of the KCRW/Spaceland-presented First Fridays concert series at the Natural History Museum in downtown Los Angeles and after missing the January installment with punks-turned-culture-clashers Mariachi El Bronx heading the bill, I vowed the February set would make my calander. A lively and always worthwhile event, the First Fridays series plays host to...
Year in Music 2011: Top 50 Albums
The year in review is always hard and with all the great and original releases that were issued this year, 2011 was by far the hardest of calendars to sort out and rate. Fringe genres explored popular confines (Chillwave, Witch House) punk went pop and weird (Fucked Up, Thee Oh Sees), hip-hop went pop and weird (Shabazz,...
Year in Music 2011: Top EPs
Short list here; for me, 2011 was not the year of the EP. I hung under albums and Bandcamp-ed collections so when it came to look at this list, I felt a little embarrassed for myself that I hadn’t sought out more bite-sized sets of plastic and bits, but hey, these things happen. The Holloweyed’s top 11,...
Year In Music 2011: Top Photos
I had a fantastic year behind the camera and considering the year-end list fever, I decided a 2011 visual recap was in order. From nightly Smog City shows at mainstay venues, one-off special performances, festivals like Lollapalooza, FYF or Fun Fun Fun and being cramped in a van on tour, going through my harddrives and whittling this list down...
Photos: Boys Noize, Switch and Harvard Bass- CYP2 1 Year Anniversary Party
One year old. Well, it’s one year old, the second time around for CYP- hence the “2″ you see. The notorious Smog City party celebrated 365 days of madness Tuesday night at it’s homebase The Echoplex with what I believe to be one of the best nights on record for Franki Chan, Media Contender and...
Photos: Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 3
Here are some selects from the final set of photos from Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest ahead of DAY 1 and DAY 2 photos. Below you can scope shots of the likes of Slayer, Boris, the reformed post hardcorers Hum, Black Lips (Cole’s fire guitar trick was fun) Austra, Grimes (with a dancer) and Gosling...
Killing Spree for 11|11|11
The return of the mighty Smog City monthly, Killing Spree is off and running and I couldn’t be more happy about it. Besides CYP2, I won’t hesitate to dub this one of the absolute best nights in LA. Hands down. Zane, Gibby and N|GHTCH|LDE welcomed the synchronicity of 11|11|11 with a perfect night of the best tunes...
Shabazz Palaces in Red and Black
Seattle’s slow moving, drip hop duo Shabazz Palaces played an introductory set to a crammed-in crowd at The Echo last week here in Smog City in support of their Sub Pop-released longplayer, Black Up- it’s good, but I’m still allowing for it to flower. Rawkblog was there. Grimy Goods too. I was hustling up and down from Check Yo (Drums, IO Echo)...
