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Extreme slip n slide / What it’s really like to work in a music store / Digital Tour Bus Website / Justice Force 5 music video / Bandstand Busking / Metrogum Musical Friend  The 3 heads Music Video / Tight Speedo Guy / Hindu Pirates Perform Choo Choo / Hindu Pirates Facebook Page / Amp Live Feat – Gary Is A Robot (Music Video)

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Japanese Episode  Translation for our friends

こ のエピソードでは、我々はあなたの好みのインディーズのアーティストとどのように、（ビート）次に、スタイルでそれらの夏の道路のツアーを生き残る見て、英国捨てband

­standsはストリートミュージシャンに、そして即興演奏の新鮮な空間を与えているにヒッチハイクをしている我々はハンティントンビーチで、ここでヒンドゥー教のパイレ­ーツはサーフの新しいサウンドを占領しているカリフォルニア州サーフシティヒットしている
ロック！

Let us introduce to you the Geisha Boys.  The Geisha Boys first played in the early 2000′s  but as singer Brian Emery states “ life happened, re-locations, and other commitments got in the way of the music. “  Originally based out of the San Francisco and Oakland area the band members are now located up and down the west coast and just now released a limited edition “The Geisha Boys EP“  that they recorded back in 2004.

So why did they decide to get the band back together after all this time? ” Well  Nathan Kondor [drums, vocals] decided to form a label and have “The Geisha Boys’ recordings be the first release. I found myself without a current musical project, my last band had disbanded and I had been playing some of the material with a local rhythm section. It made sense to couple the effort” Says Brian.

However, The Geisha Boys are not stopping with their new EP.  In fact they have added new guitarist (Matt Carlstrom) into the mix and say their new songs are a “bit more dynamic in depth and harmonic complexity because of it. The hardest part is the members living in different locations says Brian.  “It’s lot’s of travel, and then home studio work. The travel has been great, and when the band gets together, it’s cool to see how the songs develop in a live setting based on the musical thinking that happens at our various locales.” 

Metrogum was at one of these locales; Labries Lounge in Glendale California where the Geisha Boys performed songs off their new EP for the first time in seven years.  You can check out some of their set below. [reference via Radio Free Silverlake]    Songs performed  Rock Med, Woody’s revenge, Master Carpenter and Nebraska

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Photo: Vinyl District Magazine

Metrogum Host Charlie Dunlop talks  with Neil Schield owner of the famous and probably coolest under the radar record store in Los Angeles, Origami vinyl.    They discuss  how  the store got started, why they sell only vinyl and not digital music and  Neils method for organizing the bins.   This interview was shot back in 2009  just months after the store opened.  Little did we know back then that today, Origami Vinyl would become  one of the main voices and advocates for the Los Angeles music scene and audiophiles.  The store has hosted a wide range of musical talent from  Florence And The Machine and YUCK  to  indie rockers Avi Buffalo.  If you  are not local but would like to see Origami’s in store performances  you can also watch them at ontherecord.tv.

*Side note:  Origami Vinyl was also  the location for the first episode of  the Metrogum Music Scene.

VINTAGE MUSIC FILE

Here at Metrogum Music we were lucky enough one rainy day to get an alert that they were would be playing. We decided to head out through the drizzle and puddles to the Los Angeles based Origami Vinyl where they were performing for a small group of record shoppers. After approaching their manager they gave us the ok videotape their performance. This video is part of that. An extended live version of Avi Buffalo’s new single What’s It In For.

ARTIST BIO

LexiconDon is Alex Koons from Seattle, WA, transplanted to LA. He comes from a hip-hop background, but his recent transformation into synth pop hookmaster was too much for us to ignore. He got to LA and just flipped his whole style up. He’s got plenty of that LA swagger, but his voice is straight Cure. It’s pretty hard to keep these songs out of your head. Binary artists Fabian and On Off On are behind the production on his songs.” [via aural sastisfaction

Lexicondon – Boy Vs Girl Pt1

Lexicondon – SWMG

Lexiconddon – Student Body

BONUS

you can view  a rare video of  Keenhouse performing with  artist  The Kids Are Radioactive on the saxophone.

Keenhouse With The Kids Are Radioactive

Vintage  Music Files

While checking out the Eagle Rock Music Festival a few years back we happened to walk by  just in time to see the band ” The Happy Hallows”  starting their set!  At the time we did not know who the indie Los Angeles band was but, since then we have come to love their sound.  We were also impressed at the time that even just playing in front of a tire warehouse store they were able to attract a large crowd.  We shot the above footage from that night.

Enjoy this performance from when they were just starting out.

BAND BIO BELOW

[VIA Jambase]

The Happy Hollows is, put simply, transformative. That is, the young Los Angeles trio’s infectious and amorphous sound is one that immediately sticks upon first listen, evoking hints of bands that listeners remember not for the scene that launched them nor the trends of the era, but for the moment at which they first heard its music. Vocalist/guitarist Sarah Negahdari wields ominous riffs and finger-tapped arpeggios with skill reminiscent of Mary Timony of Helium while simultaneously singing and wailing like a hyper hybrid of Debbie Harry, Kim Deal and Karen O. Meanwhile, the agile rhythm section of Charles Mahoney (bass/vocals) and Chris Hernandez (drums) vault and lunge with precision.

The Happy Hollows’ raucous and irreverent noisy-pop sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90’s college rock, Broadway show-tunes, garage punk, and 80’s pop. The band combines innovative song structures, surreal lyrics, and fiercely adept instrumentation to recreate reality into a jagged panorama of vibrant, kaleidoscopic collage. Listening to their music, one cannot help but see visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious. Among other things, the subjects of their tunes include labyrinths, counterfactual history, palindromes, the colors of the rainbow, time travel, mythical animals, and Tarot cards. On the group’s 2008 EP, Imaginary, Negahdari’s cherubic propensity for quizzical, playful lyrics and signature finger-tapping/finger picking guitar technique are readily apparent as the band quirkily straddles the fence between dissonant rock and art-pop.

Having born and bred their band in the Silverlake and downtown L.A. music scenes, The Happy Hollows played their first shows in Japanese restaurants, laundromats, and small local clubs. In 2006, they snuck into a studio at night and, in two sessions, recorded Bunnies and Bombs, an EP that attracted the attention of the L.A.’s underground music scene. Following its release, the band began playing at larger venues such as the Troubadour, Spaceland, and The Echo. After seeing them play a show at the Silverlake Lounge, established L.A. heroes Silversun Pickups asked The Happy Hollows to open for them at The Wiltern and The Fillmore. In 2008, fellow art-rock outfit Deerhoof invited the Hollows to open for them on their album release shows at The Avalon and The Great American Music Hall.

It is no surprise that The Happy Hollows’ run should meet with such support from their peers since their ethos centers on originality and their beginnings are rooted in friendship. In the summer of 2005, old Washington, DC acquaintances Mahoney and Hernandez ran into each other in Los Angeles and decided to start a band. Negahdari, a SF bay area native, moved to L.A. around the same time and, after gigging solo for awhile, answered Mahoney and Hernandez’s CraigsList ad seeking a guitarist. Upon meeting, the chemistry between the three was undeniable.

Three years into its existence, The Happy Hollows have put forth Imaginary, an EP that is an amalgamation of contemporary alt-rock, distorted atonality, and exuberant yelp. Produced by David Newton (founding member of C-86 legends The Mighty Lemon Drops and producer of The Little Ones), Imaginary articulates the band’s inherent magic. EP opener, “Lieutenant” (MP3) invites comparisons to “Bohemian Rhapsody” if the song had been composed after drinking too much coffee and while high on helium. Track two, “Labyrinth,” is ambiance-d by rolling-and-crashing drum bursts and covered with shouts. Simultaneously, songs like mid-disc highlight, “Tambourine,” (MP3) exhibit The Happy Hollows’ ability to write in the conventional pop form.

In and of itself, a track like “Tambourine” is definitive of the sonic boom comprised on Imaginary; an inimitable brand of innovative genius and gusto. Drums kick in, bass tenses up, guitars sky rocket, and then it all plunges towards the oncoming chorus; a buoyant, liberating celebration of anti-lyricism and the destruction of pop. The sound is defiant, familiar, intelligent, and strong.

Flutterbies – How I Get Over You

Short Circuit – Let Go

Short Circuit -  Bonus Performance