'Joshua Tree' producer cancels gig as a result of the crash

Band pretend they're called 'Venison' for intimate show

A couple of months ago here, I raved some about a self-titled album on Woodsist by White Fence, who turned out to be a guy from LA called Tim Presley with some kind of connection to The Strange Boys. I neglected to mention, however, that Presley was also the leader of another band, Darker My Love, who I’d never really heard, to be honest. I suspect the gothic implications of the name put me off.

Business as usual today after yesterday’s somewhat neurotic post. Many thanks to Dave C for hooking us up with a killer Endless Boogie jam from Primavera, which I’m in the thick of as I type.

Funny how some records take a while to bed in, no matter how much you play them, nor how often people you trust tell you how good they are. I’ve had something of an uncharacteristic writer’s block for the past week or so (hence the shortage of blogs; sorry about that), but when we had another go at the Avi Buffalo album yesterday, a few thoughts crystallised.

Unsettling lust-noir, with serious bodycount...

Midlife crisis! Ben Stiller breaks new ground in droll comedy-drama set in the LA suburbs...

Reunited with his ’70s musical Mr Fixit, Browne delivers a great career-spanning live set – his best album in years...

An astonishing rebirth for the psychedelic cowboy...

From post-punk psych to ‘fairground hair metal’, via a lot of ’80s pop – this LA freak’s full-band debut is wild and free...