Captain Murphy

Guess Tosh jumped on the Captain Murph gravy train!  I missed the episode, but caught a 14 second shout out to them.

Ahhhh my favorite CM song filmed at the Low End Theory in LA.  If you listen closely you can hear Gaslamp Killer at the end.

-gonz

The Balconies

Kill Count

The Balconies will appear at Filter Magazine's Culture Collide which, "is a four-day international festival welcoming artists from 25 countries and counting, bringing their unique perspectives on music and culture to LA’s East Side for a musical melting pot of live performances, film screenings, and happy hours featuring food and drink from around the world. The festival will once again end with the Block Party, a free all-day event in Echo Park on Sunday, October 7th. (http://www.culturecollide.com)."  More posts about artists from this festival to come!

-gonz

King Tuff

"LA-via-Vermont garage/powerpop wunderkind King Tuff presents two brand new, non-album tracks, hot on the heels of his acclaimed self-titled LP. “Screaming Skull” is a club-ready, guitar-driven dance hit, and “Love Potion” is a glammed-up rock anthem in classic King Tuff form.

Release: October 9, 2012"

via Sub Pop Records

I'll post the tracks as soon as they go up!  One more thaang, KT recently came out with a video for Alone and Stoned.  Check it out below.

This band is sick Oh yessss OH OH oh yessssss.

-gonz

Gaslamp Killer

Nissim (with Amir Yaghmai)

Dead Vets 
ft. Adrian Younge and MRR


"Brainfeeder stalwart, Gaslamp Killer, takes a break from curating mixes of the wildest Anatolian-psyche and Persian-rock breaks to focus on this massively anticipated, long-playing debut, 'Breakthrough'. He also features here in charge of the drum battery, exercising those rhythms / breaks in full effect, inspired from the impenetrably obscure records that are the mainstay in his record box. 

On accompanying detail, his familiar, Gonjasufi breaks into shamanistic howl on the savage-strings of 'Veins' and the psyche-heavy, 'Apparitions'. Fellow LA-based beatmaker, Daedelus, also appears, stirring up the demented, electronic fusion of 'Apparitions'. Dimlite is also here and his contribution to the moog-heavy funk of '7 Years of Bad Luck for Fun'. A hard-hitting debut that's as breathtaking, diverse and challenging a listen in equal measure."

-via Bleep.com

For a while I had been hoping GLK would be coming out with something new and look what I found? Breakthrough baby!  The two tracks above are my top picks of the album (so far) and stay pretty much within the boundaries of his established sound and style.  I wish I could have heard some of his stuff leading up to the Breakthrough release, but I have yet to make the short journey to Low End Theory.  I know GLK has some pretty formidable DJ skills, but I'd like to see the eccentric dude prove himself with the live instruments he used to produce the album.  Either way, seeing GLK perform a DJ set or live one, it'd be fun time all around.

-gonz