Madison and Pine

on the raz in LA

Ahhh... as much as I've come to realize I really don't like LA that much I had a wicked night out last night, and am now sitting at the airport again (surprise!). Subrosa Purr rocked it, demonstrating exactly what the guys over at Dangerbird were thinking way back when as they signed them up for an EP along with their better known peers Silversun Pickups (who are incidentally playing the Popscene party tomorrow night in SF) one off hand comment from the Subrosas did make me chuckle "we have 6000 friends on myspace, and there's 50 of you here... now we know who our real friends are." Which got me thinking about rating your friends by the number of times they view your page.. then I started thinking that that is wrought with stalker potential.. and then I had another Red Bull!

pic: Subrosa Purr : ain't no pussycats

Post purr, I set off to Safari Sams to catch the end of OK Go who as we walked in were in the middle of lip-syncing and performing their now famous YouTube treadmill dance routine with the camp sincerity usually reserved for German burlesque dancers...(read "it was hysterical") and of course the crowd dug it big time.. what was also rare and pleasing to see was at the end of the set, the band finished, the DJ cranked up the house system.. and a club full of Angelenos started dancing!!.. I was wondering if they we're all hopped up on Christmas cheer, but was told "Tuesdays at Safari Sams are alway like this.".. who knew?  What I would recommend if you're in LA Jan 26th would be popping out to the house o Sam for Veruca Salt.. who as I've mentioned before have not only completely redefined themselves with a killer new lineup.. but also rock harder than..mmm (thinks) harder than this crappy cookie I'm trying to eat!

pic: OK Go : This ain't no disco!

ok plane announcements seem to be getting more positive... back to the frozen powerless PNW..

l8t

r

pictures vs 1000's of words

finally I have coaxed pictures from my phone... so here's a big photo dump of stuff for you

Pic: The Zune room at this years Xbox/Zune holiday party t-60minutes

Pic: Xbox stage t-60minutes

Pic: DJ DB rocking the Xbox stage around 1am....

Pic: We Are Scientists-live at the British Consulate in NYC last Friday(for some reason they invited yours truely) NME party.

pic: Astralwerks Christmas Party- Friday night was "large" this was the last party at the Astralwerks digs before their move in early 2007.. needless to say they weren't too worried about making a mess of the carpet.. or the walls... ceiling... or themselves!

pic: one of the many reasons I wont have power at my house until after Christmas...ahh the joys of country life!..Apocalypto Carnation Style!

That's all for today, I'm in LA for meetings and tonight I'm off to see Subrosa Purr tonight, whose myspace page I would link to if it hadn't dissappeared!..

oh NP: Dynamite MC -World Of Dynamite

l8t

r

Holiday Cheer

Well again the damn phone is holding my pictures... and these ones are from the Xbox/Zune Holiday bash last weekend which featured a host of entertainment including Eagles of Death Metal , fresh from getting booted from the GnR tour and in great spirits they rocked hard and the peeps liked it!.. well you'd imagine they would I guess!

pic: Jesse Hughes-a rockin American

My good friend Sarah took some candid pics of the band which can be found here.  Anyway I'll get my pics up here as soon as I can.. I'm of to NYC in the morning for some fun with NME at the British Consulate no less!!  and of course I'm going to pop by the Astralwerks Holiday bash.. so with that in mind.. see y'all soon

r

The week in rock

I'm having one of those "how did it get to be Wednesday already?" moments. What a fantastic week already... in truth it started with a fab VIP trip to the Sonics game on Friday. While I know nothing about the game, I had an awesome time hanging with Phil Ek who produced the Band of Horses record and just completed work on The Shins album and Markus Lalario who manages Band of Horses and also has a little joint here in time called the War Room, which was home to a great night of DnB last night with Kid Hops and DJ Logistics (UK). Anyway, before I forget I finally managed to liberate some pictures from my phone..

Pic: Small Sins (live in Seattle) - nice signs, lest you forget who you're watching!

ahh yes the joy of technology.. behold pictures.. woohoo... anyway on Sunday I got to go to The Moore theater for a triple bill of Simon Dawes , Silversun Pickups and Wolfmother....what and awesome night out.. all the bands were great, but Wolfmother were absolutely amazing. I needed convincing to get my head around the obvious strong influences in their sound.. I'm convinced! If you're on the fence, go see 'em.. that simple!

pic: Wolfmother - witness greatness

On Monday Simon Dawes were good enough to drop by the Zune HQ and play some tunes for us, before being whisked off on an impromptu tour of our nerve center by J Allard.. lucky guys!

So that's the week in rock so far..our big Holiday Party is on Saturday, I've been booking the talent for that..it'll be nuts, more as I can

l8t

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