Capital Cities Archives

Brian Fest At The Fonda Theater, Monday March 31st 2015

Alyson Camus / April 3, 2015

the Beach Boys’ iconic catalog was brushed (in not the right order) by Norah Jones and Gingger Shankar, Heart’s Ann Wilson, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steve Drozd, Devendra Banhart, Monters of Folk’s M. Ward, Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin, Boz Scaggs, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, Local Natives, Capital Cities’ Sebu Simonian, Wilson Philips, Karen Elson, ex Magnetic Zeros’ Jade Castrinos, Adam Busch and Danny Masterson, Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, Doyle Bramhall II, Punch Brothers, Civil Wars’ Joy Williams, Kesha….

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10 Songs, Friday, March 14th, 2014

Iman Lababedi / March 14, 2014

Fantastic Planet Of Love – Marshall Crenshaw – This is the most Crenshaw-y song he has ever written, the sink of “just this morning I felt like troubles plaything” is lost and the joy just overwhelms you -he steps back to the problems of life and then takes us out of. One of the greatest songs ever – A+

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10 Songs, Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Iman Lababedi / March 13, 2014

Mushroom Gods – Scraps – More spacey than acidic, it might be a relation to Lorde only the world of sound has less attiude and more roominess. I got a call in the midle of tnight and I feel that spacey disjointed tiredness thing going and and this is the sound my head is making – B+

Be Here Now, Slideshow

Be Here Now: Snapshot Reviews Of New Albums March 11th, 2014

Iman Lababedi / March 11, 2014

As a long time Elbow sneerer please allow me to eat my words as this superbly melancholic and astune album of love’s labors losts will undoubtedly repay close listening with a crying jag. Imagine the National meets Radiohead, now subtract the whimsy – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-