heard that sound

Why I love the L.A. Weekly

On Gwen Stefani and Lady Sovereign's show on 4/27:

"Gwen, give us a holla back once you've returned to singing melodically rocking songs (or, better yet, when you're backed by No Doubt instead of studio musicians). And Lady Sov, we're glad you like yourself so much — do get back to us when you have something else to say."

concert

The Front
Safari Sam's, Hollywood

Girl-power a-plenty. Thanks Cory! link

Are apostrophes that hard to figure out?

You've heard the story before. Band forms. Band gets popular. Band gets screwed by multiple record labels. Band has creative differences. Band gets new members. Band breaks up. Everybody's sad.

So they mangled the grammar on both the ticket stub and in the opening credits -- "Punk Rock Eats It's Own" -- but those are the only things they got wrong in this movie. They managed to extract interesting -- even touching -- interviews from all the former band members of face to face.

Saw it as part of AFI's music documentary series at the Arclight. Fun Q&A session afterward with lead singer Trever Keith.

The movie is available as part of this DVD set.  The music.

quote

"I met Cypress Hill. We realized we grew up within a mile of each other. They were saying, 'Shit, man, we thought you were from England or something.' " --Beck

Rolling Stone, April 17, 1997

concert

Amber Pacific
The Troubadour, West Hollywood

I like the Troubadour. The last two shows I saw there, the lead singers brought their moms. It was cute. link