Megafaun will be venturing into the Los Angeles border for a performance at the Echo next Tuesday, bringing with them their trusty banjos and other folk-ish goodies. For some history, Megafaun played as the back band for Akron/Family during the Love is Simple tour (more…)
As some of you might already know I was ask to be a photographer at the Pickathon Musical Festival in Portland, Oregon this weekend. Jody Orsborne was kind enough to invite me to be her sidekick for this indie folk festivus in forests just outside of Portland. In addition to being a photographer, we will also be interviewing many of the bands and making music videos of them in the woods. As part of our interview series Jody and I have decided that the questions should come from the fans directly, so we will be pinging people in the audience for inqueries but if you would like to ask a question please feel free to comment here. The bands at the festival include: Blitzen Trapper, Dr. Dog, John Doe and the Sadies, Vetiver, Alela Diane, Horsefeathers, Justin Townes Earle among others. Check back for videos and photos soon.
Peace and Love,
Capt AKAK
Beware of Maniacs was epic. Visiter was great. Time to Die is ?????. You tell me after you download it for $3. Also FYI Free show with them playing at the Getty on August 8th 2009.
Ryan McGinley, from "Sun and Health"
Los Angeles, July 23, 2009 -
The night began like most others in L.A.; we sat in traffic. My friend Krystof was trying to figure out why his iPhone didn’t sound right playing through my car speakers. I wasn’t paying too much attention – I was busy checking my work e-mail on my phone while driving and attempting to explain a lecture I’d been listening to during my morning commute on the nature of memory by some guy named John Steele (a random Pirate Bay download). Little did I know how prophetic it would turn out to be. From Wikipedia, “While his work is often closely related to the psychology of fragrance, in talks and writings Steele also explores Buddhism, Vedic culture, the great yugas, geomancy and geomantic amnesia, geobiology, time out of balance, shamanism, the effects of geological formations on human consciousness, cross state retention, and the importance of sacred sites and spaces.” That could easily be a review of the new Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros record.
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“We Had Pleasure”
They don’t really sound that much like U2 nor are they foreign born. Their new record, Person to Person, is much more Talking Heads, mm, Grizzly Bear too. Oh add a dash of Vampire Weekend (what the hell). But I totally dig the U2 sounding stuff, obv. Thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments section, please.
“Silver”
This is what they sounded like then. It’ll be pretty much the same in 2009, except now they’ll have an orchestra and some gray hairs. Say hey! if you want me to get you a ticket.
Two weeks ago, I went on a mini tour to see Dirty Projectors back-to-back nights at the Troubadour and then the Casbah in San Diego. The first night consisted on a special night out between Ebee and I where we decided it should be just the two of us as we tried to recapture the magical events that had inspired so much awe in us on New Years Eve in New York merely 7 months ago.
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