Results tagged “newwave”

You can thank Terence McFarland, the executive director of the Los Angeles Stage Alliance, for that fantastic quote about Sweaty Sundays (and Wet Wednesdays), a popular updated Richard Simmons dance exercise class " to a soundtrack of indie rock, techno, and 1980s new wave hits new wave" in Silver Lake. The New York Times takes an interest--"Silver Lake, a hipster neighborhood in Los Angeles"--while Gawker ponders if Williamsburg hipsters in Brooklyn can step up to the challenge.

In the 80s, I kind of felt like I was living in the Twilight Zone. Particularly the episode where everyone thinks people with pig faces are beautiful. Back then, people were wearing asymmetrical everything, giant hair, giant shoulderpads, giant polkadots, and dayglo colors to complement the ultrathick, bushy eyebrows. My mother would try to force these horrible clothes on me in the dressing room, and it was as if they were burning my skin. Why were punkers the only ones who could see how ridiculous it was? I felt so grateful and validated when people finally started making fun of the 80s mainstream fashion and insipid new wave. Thank God they could finally see what I saw.

After having seen The Polyphonic Spree this week at the El Rey, I fear I am spoiled for seeing live bands from now on. I've been a fan of the Spree since their debut album, The Beginning Stages Of... was released to critical accalim in 2002, but confess that at times I found the album perplexingly unlistenable in its entirety, but in turn felt that to listen to individual tracks--or Sections, as they call...

Van Morrison - Best Of Vol.3 (Manhattan/EMI)

Tonight - Tuesday "NBA Basketball" (PRIME, 5:00 p.m.) Pacers @ Lakers "College Basketball (PRIME, 7:30 p.m.) Cal State Fullerton @ UCLA "NBA Basketball" (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.) Heat @ Clippers "The 400 Blows" (IFC, 7:35 p.m.) Truffaut's 1959 French New Wave classic about neglected schoolboy who runs away from home and turns to petty crime, kinda like what the TV Junkie is doing on LAist. "Friday Night Lights" (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) When did this...