Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Last weekend I drove down out of the canyon and went to Filter magazine’s annual Culture Collide festival in Silverlake. The concept of the event and the line-up is to bring indie bands from all countries and cultures together for an intimate, LA style sound-clash.
A couple days later, I woke up buzzing to carry on with an international “indie” sound-clash of my “Idelic” own. I started with my collection of Brazilian singles and fingered through more crates to cover as many zip codes, new artists, and classics as I could muster.
Looking at my playlist, the backdrop of this radio session is definitely my upcoming trip to New York City for CMJ.
As I write this, my eyes keep wandering toward an old Frank Kozick poster on my wall. I’m proud to say my band shared this bill with The Blues Explosion, Monster Magnet, Neuroses, and the memorable Laughing Hyenas—who took the cake as the most doped out band I’ve ever shared a stage with. Hazy, but good times being in a indie band in NYC twenty years ago.
What kind of musical journey will CMJ offer your Idelic host twenty years down the road? “Indie rock,” previously known as “college rock” is now coming up on a quarter century old. The indie styles and its artists drift like 19th century hobos, town to town and now country to country.
Bands that are currently carrying on with this tradition: Hanni El Khatib, Fool’s Gold, Yacht, Portugal The Man, Blackfeet Braves, Iceage, Jirapah, Is Tropical, Zola Jesus, and King Krule. Dig on the new breed of vagrants
The Idelic Hit of the Week: King Krule – The Noose of Jah City
