Music

Listen Up: Prinzhorn Dance School

By vodkasavant April 6, 2012 Leave a comment

This beguiling, evocative song is from Prinzhorn Dance School‘s five-song EP, available at iTunes on April 10, 2012.  Listen to it once, and it’ll get stuck in your head.  In a good way.

Listen Up: The Roots’ “Stomp”

By vodkasavant April 6, 2012 Leave a comment

I love this song from The Roots’ “Undun” album, released December 6, 2011.  This video is only a portion of it, but the whole song kills. Hear it here.

TONIGHT @ Viper Room: Black Monday & Friends

By vodkasavant April 4, 2012 Leave a comment

Check it out: L.A. band  Black Monday is back, with new singer Brian Christensen, a.k.a. PIMP–ready to set off a grenade of sound!  They’re tearing up the Sunset Strip tonight, with a whole rowdy crew of  fellow punk-rock freaks. Hit the show, and prepare to rock your face off.

The Metal Epithet

By vodkasavant April 3, 2012 Leave a comment

The Whisky A Go-Go is currently looking for metal bands to book. Granted, this is probably a “pay -to-play” sort of deal–which is unfortunate for the band.  But this nugget of information made me think of how awesome it would it be to come up with a name for a metal band.  Imagine…Satan’s Minions, Hate-Fuck, […]

Listen Up: Les Savy Fav

By vodkasavant April 2, 2012 Leave a comment

From Tim Harrington’s sandpaper voice and spandex-clad stage-humping to songs that reach out and clench you in the balls, (well, not my balls, because I don’t have them) Les Savy Fav just does it for me. Sometimes, they’re cynical [‘these kids will kill you just because they can; their teeth are bleached and their tits […]