Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Joss Stone, Atari Teenage Riot, The BoDeans, and Jamey Jasta

July 26, 2011 - 8:27 pm

Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta goes solo with a self-titled debut…The BoDeans?! Didn’t know they were still around…doesn’t look like much has changed…speaking of ‘still around’, Atari Teenage Riot gets Hyperreal…Nuclear Blast Records superstars All Shall Perish drop This is Where it Ends, no doubt a further step to becoming the new metal kings…other than that, not much to go on…see ya next time….

Eric Church – Chief

The BoDeans – Indigo Dreams

Atari Teenage Riot – Is This Hyperreal?

Joss Stone – LP1

Kindred The Family Soul – Love Has No Recession

Vanessa Carlton – Rabbits on the Run

Falling in Reverse – The Drug in Me is You

America - Back Pages

Vanessa Carlton - Rabbits on the Run

Heartsounds - Drifter

Jamey Jasta – Jasta

All Shall Perish – This is Where it Ends

End of level Boss – Eklectric

Gallery Music Trouncing The Troubadour: Alkaline Trio

July 26, 2011 - 11:32 am

Without spelling out the fact that Los Angeles concert audiences can be smug, which I might have just accidentally done, I’ll admit that we can be a tough crowd. In our defense, we’re spoiled; there is just so much good music around that it can be tricky to impress us enough to uncross our arms and let loose at a show.

Every now and then, a band will roll through town, however, that makes us throw all inhibitions out the window and rock out; that makes us show off our best dance moves, throw out energetic fist pumps, and convinces us that we will lose face if we go home without participating in the mosh pit or attempting to crowd surf. For many, this band is Alkaline Trio.

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Fashion Gallery Comic Book Vixens = Every Fanboy’s Wet Dream

July 25, 2011 - 10:49 am

Despite missing Comic-Con this year, I have experienced in an hour what many lifelong attendees won’t. Ever. For instance, if I were to tell you that at this year’s convention, every hot chick dressed as a comic book character will be doused with a Smylex-like pheromone gas that will make them instantaneously peel off their clothes, chances are you’d kill/pillage/etc. to get tickets.

Or you could have done something even better, and gone to Comic Book Vixens — the new show by the burlesque troop Devil’s Playground. Which did all that, and more. This thing couldn’t have been more perfectly tailored to any comic (especially DC!) aficionado. Naked Harley Quinn. Naked Poison Ivy. You get the picture — if not, have some…

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Film Fridays The Whitewashing of ‘Akira’ Comes in a Time of Corporate Greed

July 22, 2011 - 7:26 pm

"Must...kill...evil CEOs..."

It’s arguably the most beloved film in the entire canon of anime. It’s well-regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese animation; above Ghost in the Shell and Battle Angel Alita and even Black Butler or whatever is the latest trend in the anime world now. And Warner Brothers, the studio behind it all, has made it their mission to get it made as an American, live-action version, come hell or high water.

The problem seems obvious. As George Takai and several other Japanese Americans have pointed out, there aren’t any Japanese actors portraying the central roles in this adaptation. Which takes place in Tokyo, has 99.9% Japanese characters, and whose identity and icon-status rests on these factors. But the guys at Warners need more of a  beating from lots of loyal fans, especially those pissed over the whitewashing of what is considered an Asian cultural landmark.

Warner-Murdoch

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Music Lit Goes Live

July 22, 2011 - 10:59 am

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After a 7 year absence, Orange County’s Multi-Platinum recording artists LIT have returned to the studio with producer Matt Wallace (Faith No More, OAR, The Replacements, Maroon 5). Lit plans to release new music by the end of the year, but in the meantime, have posted a brand new demo with exclusive video footage for the song “You Tonight” on www.LitBand.com.

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