Blog-achella X: Searching For Robbie Van Winkle
Yo stop! Collaborate and listen. Ice is back with a brand new edition... of Blog-achella. And another big list of skippies. But I even came up with a second way of justifying it. Look, there's like 40 bands playing and if you're lucky, you'll catch a dozen of them and they still won't even all be full sets. So, if I just said everybody is good, am I really doing you a service? HELL NO, I AM NOT! So...
To directly contradict myself, we start with Australian band The Temper Trap, whose debut record ain't half bad... kind of a Brit Rock sound and you know we love that around here. So since I wasn't able to post yesterday, here's a bonus for ya...
But then you get some Rock En Espanol from Zoe, and... we will pass...
Craze and Klever are possibly two of the greatest Turntablists out there, and it promises to be good shit, but they played last year so read that post because I am lazy. The music is still up for you to grab, so it's a Double Bonus day! What is this, Casino Morongo?
Shooter Jennings, son of Country legend Waylon, comes next. I wanted to like him, I really did. And he's got some interesting stuff going on with his band Heirophant. But when the Rock parts of the songs started, the first word to pop into my head is Nickelback. This is a word that should never pop into my head... EVER!
The Almighty Defenders are a group which consists partly of the members of Black Lips, which may be the worst band I have ever reviewed for Blog-achella. Don't think I need to say any more on that one...
And every year there has to be one South Bay bar band on the bill playing a Punk/Ska combination and this year it's someone called RX Bandits... and the crowd at Hennessey's rejoiced.
And then you have Porcupine Tree, who've been around seemingly forever and have been unlistened to by me for just as long. I should have kept it that way...
So finally, another new one to me...
Pretty Lights
Who he is: One Mr. Derek Vincent Smith of Colorado, accompanied live by a drummer dude.
What he sounds like: Downtempo Electronic beats with lots of super-chopped samples (see if you can recognize 'em!) and big, fat synth sounds...
Homeboy gives all his stuff away for free, because he's cool like that (and because of all the samples, me imagine), so hop on over to his website and get you some!
What I think: Me likey. Me likey a lot. And the live show looks fun, too... it lives up to the name!
And in case you're wondering why the Vanilla Ice reference... I have no freaking idea...
To directly contradict myself, we start with Australian band The Temper Trap, whose debut record ain't half bad... kind of a Brit Rock sound and you know we love that around here. So since I wasn't able to post yesterday, here's a bonus for ya...
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (ysi)
But then you get some Rock En Espanol from Zoe, and... we will pass...
Craze and Klever are possibly two of the greatest Turntablists out there, and it promises to be good shit, but they played last year so read that post because I am lazy. The music is still up for you to grab, so it's a Double Bonus day! What is this, Casino Morongo?
Shooter Jennings, son of Country legend Waylon, comes next. I wanted to like him, I really did. And he's got some interesting stuff going on with his band Heirophant. But when the Rock parts of the songs started, the first word to pop into my head is Nickelback. This is a word that should never pop into my head... EVER!
The Almighty Defenders are a group which consists partly of the members of Black Lips, which may be the worst band I have ever reviewed for Blog-achella. Don't think I need to say any more on that one...
And every year there has to be one South Bay bar band on the bill playing a Punk/Ska combination and this year it's someone called RX Bandits... and the crowd at Hennessey's rejoiced.
And then you have Porcupine Tree, who've been around seemingly forever and have been unlistened to by me for just as long. I should have kept it that way...
So finally, another new one to me...
Pretty Lights
Who he is: One Mr. Derek Vincent Smith of Colorado, accompanied live by a drummer dude.
What he sounds like: Downtempo Electronic beats with lots of super-chopped samples (see if you can recognize 'em!) and big, fat synth sounds...
Pretty Lights - Hot Like Sauce (ysi)
Homeboy gives all his stuff away for free, because he's cool like that (and because of all the samples, me imagine), so hop on over to his website and get you some!
What I think: Me likey. Me likey a lot. And the live show looks fun, too... it lives up to the name!
And in case you're wondering why the Vanilla Ice reference... I have no freaking idea...
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