Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
I’m taking a deep breath on the final day of January. We certainly did charge into 2014. Oh so much has gone down since the first of the year. Giant waves and giant weather. The Grammys have now come and gone. What looked like the year of the horse could end up being the year of “the hat.” (Thank you Pharrell Williams for making this year’s very flat Grammy awards bearable.)
No mind, along with several days of hazy brilliant sunsets, we’ve been treated to an onslaught of great new records! 2014 is not fucking around as this week’s show features great new releases from Damian Jurado, The Black Lips, Damon Albarn, Nicole Atkins, St Vincent, Jake Bugg, as well as LA area bands, Nick Waterhouse, Dum Dum Girls, Allah-las, and Together Pangea.
(Yes, those Pangea boys have a new video that gives insight into what happens when winters get a little too warm in the Burger Records basement.)
As the cover of this week’s local (and shrinking) LA Weekly declared, LA to be “Best Coast—the best American city for music period!”
Yeah so fuck it, let the music ring on Super Bowl Sunday!
The Idelic Hit of the Week:
Together Pangea – Sick Shit
