Grizzly Bear Thursday, Sept. 28 Spaceland Talk about marking your territory. On a night when the Los Angeles hipster population was evenly divided ““ Sonic Youth and M. Ward were last Thursday’s other big draws ““ the Brooklyn-based Grizzly Bear played to a packed, enthusiastic house at Silverlake club Spaceland. The two opening acts didn’t […]
Author Archives: David Greenwald
COMIC CORNER: “Y The Last Man” #49
“Y The Last Man” #49 By Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra Vertigo Comics Alas, poor Yorick! The unfortunately named Yorick Brown is the last man on Earth, with all that it entails: sexual entanglements, post-apocalyptic biker gangs and a monkey named Ampersand who holds the fate of humanity in his poop-stained paws. As you […]
Soundbites: Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke “The Eraser” XL Recordings 4 paws If there’s one thing Radiohead does consistently, it’s making music that blows people away. From the anthems of “The Bends” to the electronic beauty of “Kid A” and the diverse punch of 2003’s “Hail to the Thief,” the band many consider the world’s best doesn’t pull any […]
Love is all you need, but music helps
Love is blind. But nobody ever said it was deaf. Unlike in high school, when people are thrown into awkward social groups that either miraculously survive or devolve into backstabbing and nasty gossip come senior year, college is a place for choice ““ friends, enemies and significant others alike. For me, that’s meant picking friends […]
It’s not even June, but there’s still time for a top-10 list
It’s almost June, and you know what that means: time for a mid-year top-10 albums list. Last year started off with a bang, with most of my favorite albums of the year (Andrew Bird, Okkervil River, The National) coming out early. This year has been more about consistency than exceptional quality so far, with at […]
Music tastes can take an unexpected turn as we get older
I had my birthday a few weeks back, which means now I can hang out with former A&E editor Jess Rodgers at Maloney’s (where everybody knows her name). The biggest change over the last year or so, though, has been in something unexpected ““ my musical taste. The more music you listen to, the more […]
If my iPod doesn’t want it, then I don’t want it either
Not that this is a big shock or anything, but I download music pretty much all the time. So when I heard that MTV was going to step into the MP3 retailing ring today, ready to face off Rocky-style with Apple’s iTunes, I was intrigued. The iTunes service is the defending champ of downloading songs, […]