SHOW REMINDER: A Benefit for Spencer Rollins, featuring: Cobra Lilies, Avi Buffalo, EXITMUSIC, Young Animals, and Dorian Wood @ All Star Lanes TONIGHT

As you may have already heard, Young Animals vocalist/guitarist Spencer Rollins was recently the victim of the San Bernadino Sheriff Department’s unique hospitality, and, as such, has accrued a massive amount of legal fees. As a kind of ‘Free John Sinclair’-styled fund raiser/rally (but without Yoko Ono or Bob Seger), LA Underground, Classical Geek Theatre, Rock Insider, and Web in Front are presenting a benefit show this TONIGHT to help offset the mounting bills, featuring the Cobra Lilies, Avi Buffalo, EXITMUSIC, Young Animals, Dorian Wood.

It’s an expensive legal process he’s going through now, one in which you can help by simply checking out an excellent $5 lineup at All Star Lanes. Even if this weren’t for a good cause (and it most certainly is), you owe it to your ears alone to check this show out. Come by tonight and say hello, hear some excellent local noise, and help someone out–it’s win-win (except for the San Bernardino P.D.–we’re not pulling for them at the moment).

 
icon for podpress  Dorian Wood - "The Stronghold Passage" [4:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Young Animals - "Rot" [5:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Cobra Lilies - "She Won't Come Back" [1:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  EXITMUSIC - "SlowParade" [4:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Avi Buffalo - "I'm So Exclusive" [5:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Music News | Leave a Comment  |

New Video: Native Korean Rock (Karen O. side project) - “OOO” / “Day Go By” / “Comes the Night” live @ Union Pool (Brooklyn)

As reported earlier this week (along with five new tracks), Karen O. has found a way to spend the time between Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums–Native Korean Rock, who performed an intimate, nautical-themed set (complete with fake seafoam and Karen sitting behind the bow of a ship) that–though only briefly–made Web in Front want to be in New York for a day.

“OOO”

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July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Videos | Leave a Comment  |

New Video: The Weather Underground - “Neal Cassidy” live acoustic @ Live Daily Sessions

One of Web in Front’s favorite local acts, the Weather Underground, absolutely kill this acoustic take on “Neal Cassidy.” Catch them on the 31st at Safari Sams.

July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Videos | Leave a Comment  |

New Music Preview: Conor Oberst (with the Mystic Valley Band) - “Conor Oberst”

The not so mystically-titled solo LP Conor Oberst by Conor, huh, Oberst is being billed as his first solo record in thirteen years (since ’95s The Soundtrack to My Movie)–which is odd, not so much because he recorded it with a full band, but because it sounds like every Bright Eyes album that’s come before it (minus the tech-twitched Digital Ash in a Digital Urn).

Still, it’s not bad–a pretty and crinkled folk-rock photograph of road journeys and introspection, and even more sepia than the inside of Mark Kozelek’s eyelids. The whole LP can be streamed here, and track “Danny Callahan” is available below.

 
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July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Tunes | Leave a Comment  |

Notes From Underground: The Swingin’ Yo-Yos

A recurring Web in Front obscuro column by Eliza Hajax, Notes from Underground is a simultaneous exploration and celebration of forgotten and/or under appreciated soul, blues, and garage acts from the ‘30s to the ‘70s.

By Eliza Hajax

If you know me in real life, you probably know one, if not two things about me:

1. There is nothing that makes me happier than making mix CDs for people, and

2. This is most likely because I am a snobby jerk and find an inordinate amount of satisfaction in being the first person to show an equally knowledgeable friend a record they have never heard of.

The latter has become increasingly difficult in this age of The Internets and mass mix making and a dominance of utterly worthless bands. However, I have one reliable exception, a song that no one I know has ever heard of, and consistently becomes a favorite of everyone I show it to.

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July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Exclusive Features | Leave a Comment  |

Princeton - Residency Diary, Part Three

Residency Diaries are exactly what they sound like: the thoughts, musings, and scribbles of rock bands as they host a series of month-long shows in various Los Angeles venues. This month’s R.D. entries will be from Princeton, whose breezy, indie-popped tropicalia unfurls every Monday in July at the Silverlake Lounge.

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July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Exclusive Features, Residency Diaries | Leave a Comment  |

New Video: The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra - “Clampdown” (Cure cover) live @ Summer Camp (7.20.08)

Courtesy of Elaine Layabout (she’s everywhere!).

July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Videos | Leave a Comment  |

New Tunes: Cold War Kids - “Something is Not Right with Me”

It’s still the Cold War kids, but the second preview off of the upcoming Loyalty to Loyalty rides a decidedly warm dance-rock throb as the Kids do their thrashy, yelp-throated thing.

 
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July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Tunes | Leave a Comment  |

New Tunes: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- “Astral Facial” live at the Siren Festival (7.19.08)

Indie bard Stephen Malkmus debuted a new tune at the Siren Festival last weekend, the slow, rough-edged “Astral Facial,” which sounds as if it could drift happily within the second half of Brighten the Corners.

Editors Note: It is apparently still impossible to categorize Malkmus’ solo work without comparing it to the classic music he created with Pavement. We apologize for this inconvenience.

 
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July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Tunes | Leave a Comment  |

New Tunes: Calexico - “Two Silver Trees”

While “Two Silver Trees” isn’t exactly breaking new ground for Calexico, its tremulous and string-stormed beauty will keep you much too busy to notice. Though, to be fair, we’re a bit biased–after all, we wrote this.

 
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July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Media, New Tunes | Leave a Comment  |

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