IR: SoCal Spotlight - Moss Bluff
May 6, 2008
Today we focus our show spotlight on a well deserving independent band from the Little Armenia area of Los Angeles, Moss Bluff!
Bandmembers Travis Knight and Hugh Price came together in 2004 in Florida, then eventually teamed up with Grammy winning producer/mixer Paul McKenna to create their first LP entitled Sharpes Ferry Road. This LP had guest appearances from LA based Oliver Future and Rose’s Pawn Shop members, whom you may have heard on Insomnia Radio in the past. Jonah David (Matisyahu) also rounds out their new bill!
We are proud to bring you a new demo track that the band recently put the final touches on, and which they passed onto us recently out in Texas. The track is called ‘Elegant’ and is apparently planned for release on their next album.
The other two tracks, ‘Sidewalk Diving’, and ‘Agent Orange’ are available on their MySpace site through SnoCap.
SESSION TRACKS
1) Sidewalk Diving
2) Elegant (demo)
3) You’ve Been Had By Agent Orange
UPCOMING SUMMER RESIDENCY
5/15/08 - House of Blues Parish Room
6/19/08 - House of Blues Parish Room
7/17/08 - House of Blues Parish Room
Popularity: 4% [?]
IR: SoCal - April 29th, L.A. Riot [The LAPD Tapes]
April 28, 2008
File this under irregular my friends.
Today’s session is basically one continuous experimental half-hour long electronica track, crafted by someone not from the region, and with material apparently taken from the Los Angeles Police Department during the April 29th ’spawned’ L.A. Riots back in 1992.
The performer is actually from the Netherlands and goes by the moniker Zero V. This track is called LA Riot [THE LAPD Tapes], a delicious thirty minute epic produced by the Notorious Twins. This soundscape captures the listener in its droning rhythms, bringing back a sense of urgency and recollection of the vivid local imagery broadcast around the world sixteen years ago to the date.
So open the windows, let the heat flood in, breathe in that smoky L.A. air, throw on your headphones, and take a recollective trip back for better or for worse…
Popularity: 18% [?]
IR: The SoCal Sessions #22 - Suns Last Drops
April 20, 2008
Todays new session is on the heels of a lot of changes across the network. What are they, you ask? Well, I’ve provided a link below if interested, but it boils down to being involved with adding a bit of extra music programming across the network, which you will find on the Daily Dose and Main Feed. You can subscribe to the extra content at those links if interested in hearing what we are up to.
This musical offering is a long time in coming, and is saturated with some incredible tracks, definitely one of my favorite lineups to date from the Southern California region. The name given to the episode comes from a line in Cerulean’s track and is a just a play on drinking coffee right up to the evening, working hard to get this session out… nothing too deep.
I hope you enjoy our selection of fourteen tracks today. We’ve got some excellent local features from Ill Lillies and The Audiants, as well as our friends Sunday Drivers, Lost in Los Angeles, Joshua Lanes and much more!
FEATURED TRACKS
1) Mark Silverman - Insomnia Song (clip) | e-music
2) Goldenboy - Summer of the Evening | e-music
3) Cerulean - Far Beneath & Below | e-music
4) How to Win at Life - Peak of My Physical Beauty | itunes
5) The Audiants - The Rest of the Day | itunes
6) Lost in Los Angeles - Pierce the Cold | snocap
7) Manhattan Murder Mystery - I Am Tired of Being a Man
8 ) The Secret 6 - Familiar | snocap
9) Sunday Drivers - The Sweetest Disguise | itunes
10) Mezzanine Owls - Snowglobe | e-music
11) Joshua Lanes - Pink Gloves | itunes
12) Great Northern - Home | e-music
13) Ill Lillies - Baby Diego | last.fm
14) Austin James Band - Time | itunes
CHECK 1 2 3
Major Changes at Insomnia Radio!
Atlantic Wave Radio
Outlaw Punk Cowboy Show
Rock Insider
Suzy (music pusher)
Musket (Davey Latter of Great Northern/Everest)
IODA Promonet
LA Podcasters
Popularity: 21% [?]
Bodog Wildcard / Hoodie Giveaway
April 9, 2008
Alright. Here’s the deal. None of the bands in the Southern California region made it to the World Grand Finale in the
BodogBattle. All of these bands however do still have the chance to advance through Wildcard voting on the Bodog website.
Two slots are open for bands to advance in a chance to win a million dollar contract and to supposedly receive facetime on a reality tv show.
While I normally wouldn’t advocate random voting in online contests, I feel a little jilted after manning five six-hour judging events in where none of the groups from our area advanced. I guess it goes with the territory and anything can happen…but..
Here’s where you come in. If you are interested you can log-into the Bodog site and vote once a day to help two of the following local groups move forward. These are all groups you may be familiar with as we’ve played them on IR: SoCal in the past several months. Bands can be voted for from their individual pages between April 1st and April 30th. Winners will be announced May 4th.
VOTING LINKS:
Cry Havoc
Building a Better Spaceship
Out of State
Paper Thin Walls
Letters Burning
Lo Mass Republic
If you do vote, let me know and I’ll enter you into the running for a new small-sized smoke-free Bodog Battle hooded sweatshirt (runs more into medium size). Just send me a quick note to charles@insomniaradio.net if interested and I’ll have a draw a name later in the month closer to April 30th.
Popularity: 26% [?]
IR: SoCal Spotlight - Raised Under Reagan
April 4, 2008
(Cue best Casey Kasem voice)
The local punk-rock continues streaming in this week, raising in intensity to some degree, with some audio flashbacks to the 80s placed primarily so you’ll remember the featured band name long after listening.
In the vein of LA’s Wasted Youth and Bad Religion comes a group originally formed in Shreveport in 2000 and whom relocated to the Los Angeles area several years ago. After releasing a few CD’s and freshly remastering them recently, they’re working on a new EP set for release this month, called ‘Until the Plantation Burns”, whose first song is being featured this week over on Garageband.
Behold, in all of their glory, LA’s “Raised Under Reagan” and check out the psychedelic message from Nanc I hid in the first song. Make sure to visit their website after the face melting has ended. Until then:
1) Raised Under Reagan - Note in a Bottle
2) Raised Under Reagan - End of the Rope
3) Raised Under Reagan - Igor’s Dilemma
TOURDATES
5/1/08 - DiPiazza’s in Long Beach (8pm)
5/3/08 - Surf City Saloon in Huntington Beach (8pm)
Popularity: 29% [?]
IR SoCal Fireside Theatre: Cry Havoc
March 27, 2008
Clearing the palette after a complex musical odyssey in Texas, I figured what would be better than heading to a punk show down on the edge of Newport Beach in order to cleanse some of the cloying pretentious hipster residue out of the system, and make my ears finally ring.
Just past midnight on Sunday morning, a friend and I had the pleasure of watching the Huntington Beach/LA based group, “Cry Havoc” assault a local crowd with their fiery punk rock ‘Easter hymns’ in the early morning hours. Can I get a witness?
I had seen this group a few times before, as they were in a battle of the bands I had assisted in judging previously, although every single band from our market lost in the end (pending one last round of wildcard results). Um, not my fault man.
I managed to snap several pictures of the night’s events which you can view over on Flickr. Most are hastily taken during the last two songs, which generally sent the assembled crowd and opening groups up onto the stage, culminating in a ripping cover of Face to Face’s “Disconnected”.
Check these guys out on their way up:
1) Cry Havoc - Ghost Town | snocap
2) Cry Havoc - From the Stars | snocap
Popularity: 36% [?]
IR: SoCal - Last Night in Los Angeles
March 11, 2008
If any of you haven’t noticed all my excessive posts on Twitter yammering on about all the bands playing this year at the South by SouthWest Music Festival in Austin, TX… well… this posting is to confirm it to the rest of all ya’ll. I’m going to Austin this year and tonight is my last night in Los Angeles, well… kinda.
I’ll be flying out solo early tomorrow morning as part of a sorely needed personal trip, that will definitely spill into the Insomnia Radio realm to some degree. I’ve always wanted to attend SXSW but haven’t gotten around to it until now. I guess you could say everything came together at the right time, with an extra side jaunt at the tail end to visit family in the Houston area.
After slogging through about 800 band files the festival has offered online, I’ve compiled an overlapping Read more
Popularity: 57% [?]
IR: SoCal Spotlight - Aulta
March 9, 2008
I WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT…
Apple Valley based progressive rock band Aulta will be performing at two upcoming shows here in the Southland over the next few weeks, specifically in Fullerton at The Alley and then a week or so later in Universal City at BB Kings!
I WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT…
Aulta has just released two completely NEW tracks over at their website (found below), which are called “Come On” and “Earth Glow”. These are both going to be released on independent label, Math Records!
I WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT…
A is for Aulta!