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Recently Announced Recommended Shows.

Bootleg Theater
2/11: Alec Ounsworth
2/21: Mirah
2/28: Real Vocal String Quartet
3/5: Mike Watt
3/25: The Low Anthem

El Rey Theatre
1/28: Broken Lizard Live
3/20 & 3/21: Gomez

Music Box at The Fonda
2/9: Nouvelle Vague
4/27: Dr. Dog with Deer Tick

Troubadour
2/16: Dios – Record Release Party with DJ Jimi Hey spinning between sets (Free)
3/5: Rocky Votolato
3/25: The Morning Benders

John McCauley III of Deer Tick

Broken Lizard – Super Troopers – “Mustache Ride”

Nouvelle Vague – Too Drunk to Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
Dr. Dog – Ain’t It Strange
The Morning Benders – Nothin’ In This World Can Stop Me Worryin’ Bout That Girl (Kinks)
Deer Tick – Houston, TX
Rocky Votolato – Postcard From Kentucky
Dios – Starting Five
Mirah – Education
Real Vocal String Quartet – Talking String Talking Drum
Broken Lizard – Beerfest – “I Doubt That Playboy”

Tragic news. Jay Reatard is dead at the age of 29. He reportedly died in his sleep and was found at home at 3:30am this morning.

Statement from Goner Records: “It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard. We will pass along information about funeral arrangements when they are made public.”

Statement from Matador Records: “We are devastated by the death of Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., aka Jay Reatard. Jay was as full of life as anyone we’ve ever met, and responsible for so many memorable moments as a person and artist. We’re honored to have known and worked with him, and we will miss him terribly.”

The Souljazz Orchestra, is Afro-jazz at it’s best. Drawing on the rough, raw grooves of the ‘60s and ‘70s and effortlessly fusing soul, jazz, Afro and Latin rhythms within their music, they have moved forward the blueprint of Fela, Fania and the funk in entirely new ways, whilst keeping the vital analog grit intact. Great stuff.

For fans of Antibalas, Budos Band, Apples

The Souljazz Orchestra (Myspace)

Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Album: Rising Sun (info)
Label: Strut Records
MP3: The Souljazz Orchestra – Mamaya
MP3: The Souljazz Orchestra – People, People

We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to see The Builders and The Butchers at Spaceland this Thursday, January 14th. Please email us at rollogrady@gmail.com to claim the tickets. For further show info (click here).

MP3: The Builders And The Butchers – Black Dresses

Rollo & Grady, KCRW and When You Awake are proud to present The Low Anthem live at the Bootleg Theatre on Thursday, March 25th.

Their album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, was one of our favorite albums of 2009. Other publications felt the same about the record: Magnet’s #1 Album of 2009, UNCUT’s “Americana Album of the Year,” Boston Music Awards’ “Album of the Year,” Aquarium Drunkard’s Best of ’09. It was also a New York Times Critic’s Pick, Rough Trade Records Top 10 albums of ’09, and NPR’s Bob Boilen coined the song “Charlie Darwin” one of the best of the year. The band is currently supporting The Avett Brothers on their Midwest tour.

We will have some tickets to giveaway to the show sometime in March.

Bootleg Theatre
2220 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

MP3: The Low Anthem – To Ohio
MP3: The Low Anthem – As the Flame Burns Down

Download:
The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Buy)
The Low Anthem – What the Crow Brings (Buy)

New Joanna Newsom album coming out February, 23rd via Drag City. Her first single “81” is streaming now on Drag City’s site (on the right, under “Free Music”).

MP3: Joanna Newsom – The Book Of Right On (Pocketknife Mix)

Broken Bells

Album: Self-Titled (Due Out March 8th)
Label: Columbia Records

Galactic

Album: Ya-Ka-May (Due Out February 9th)
Label: Anti-Records
MP3: Galactic ft. Irma Thomas – Heart Of Steel

Eels

Album: End Times (Due Out January 19th)
Label: Vagrant Records
MP3: Eels – Little Bird
MP3: Eels – In My Younger Days