RUMBLE WEEK #1 CLOSES OUT IN LAS VEGAS @ THE ARUBA TONIGHT

Week #1 of THE RUMBLE closes out in Sin City as the Las Vegas version features a finely-tuned CHASING KINGS and two great Vegas acts, plus a $2 PBR draft special! Spread the word, and bring all your friends!

CHASING KINGS have been an incredible Rumble band, bringing their 'A' game every single night in towns they've never played before, only to have the locals responding and asking to book them again and again. They've played Las Vegas a number of times with our partners, NEON REVERB, so it should feel almost like home court this time around.

Now for the locals.....

DEVILCAR
Known for their live show, DEVILCAR are a local act indie rock act garner buzz for their pop ladden full length debut "Happy Go Darkness." Combining their love of vintage pop and raw post punk edge, DEVILCAR are a must see.

"Devilcar is tearing down the fast lane of the music scene with their brooding, well' heeled pop."- The Las Vegas Review Journal


CLOSE TO MODERN
Las Vegas City Life's favorite "neu-gloom" band, CLOSE TO MODERN are a throwback to the days of The Smiths and Joy Division with modern elements in the vein of Editors. After steady touring of the West Coast, CLOSE TO MODERN is bringing their dark melodramatic sound back home.

"Close to Modern mixes it up on the Smiths-meets-Interpol jangle of 'Sedentary Lessons,' which fuses a driving dance rhythm against a sinister and decadent European club vibe." - Las Vegas City Life

The FREE monthly music party is brought to you by Future Sounds, Neon Reverb, and Las Vegas CityLife!

BAR PINK HOSTS THE RUMBLE SAN DIEGO TONIGHT

THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO roars into North Park tonight for the June edition @ Bar Pink with three amazing acts, a guest DJ, Trumer Pils beer specials all night and free admission - if you can get in.

Headlining the bill is the lovely, MAREN PARUSEL. Formerly of the all-girl punk band, Wild Weekend, Parusel's new keyboard based pop sound has gotten her attention. She received a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2009 San Diego Music Awards and during her recent stint at SXSW, she caught the ear of the infamous, Kim Fowley (producer of The Runaways). Check out her song "Dear Love" available on 7" via Single Screen Records.

Rolling in for night #5 of their 6 night run of Rumbles it's LA's CHASING KINGS. They've been debuting a number of new songs all week long and these new directions are all impressive. They even have a new Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers sounding track and a new whale tattoo that they picked up in Portland. Their LA set was commanding, definitely a band in full tour mode with their chops as tight as possible.

Opening the night are DRUG WARS. Called "the best kind of post-hardcore-punk-rock to listen to" by 7 Inches blog, this four piece are gathering buzz even across the pond with Collective Zine UK taking notice of their 7 inch 9846 (Grizzly Records).

Plus, a DJ set by METH COMBZ (pka Seth Combs of SD City Beat).

The Rumble: San Diego is in partnership with FUTURE SOUNDS, INDIGENOUS, M THEORY MUSIC, SDDIALED IN, TRUMER PILS and THE OWL AND BEAR.

Bar Pink is located on 30th in North Park

THE RUMBLE LOS ANGELES TONIGHT @ 3 CLUBS

The June edition of THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES takes place this evening at 3 Clubs in Hollywood and features 3 local bands with bright futures, a special guest DJ and free admission.

CHASING KINGS are bringing it home tonight and we can't wait to see them tear up the backroom of 3 Clubs. Sincere key-laden indie pop at its finest, CHASING KINGS excel in crafting classic melodies coupled with memorable hooks. From what we've been hearing their gathering new fans along the tour this week and must be caught before they blow up at the Also I Like to Rock summer series at The Hammer Museum next month.This quartet are now bondafide members of the FS family and we wouldn't have it any other way.


"Chasing Kings sound like a younger Kings Of Leon....really good songwriters. And they’re bloody talented." -Me And All My Friends

Filling the middle slot, we're stoked to have GAMBLE HOUSE, Grizzly Bear esque rockers that have been attracted major attention in LA, even nabbing a spot at Aquarium Drunkard's Waved Out Fest earlier this Spring. This LA based band has delivered an album so deep and rich it feels like an old friend. Check out the gorgeous track, "Bonny Doon!"


"Full of haunting melodies, and magical surrealism, Gamble House incorporates meticulous instrumentation and complex arrangements, creating large, dynamic shifts, with intricate vocal harmonies, and a mixture of electronics, woodwinds, and acoustic and electric elements." - Beatcrave

Rounding out the bill, we have Inland Empire based trio, FRANCISCO THE MAN! Fresh off their spot at The Silverlake Jubilee and the release of their their new five-song EP, "With Friends Like You," they are a must see! We can't get enough of their newest track,"Do You Remember."

"The five-song collection’s guitar squalls and big grooves take the band’s garagey psych-folk to a bigger place, where youthful yearning blares across the landscape." - Buzz Bands LA


On the turntables is a man with some golden ears - DJ GOLDEN SUGAR BEAR. He's tipped us off on more great bands than anyone over the years and he'll be holding things down on the decks as well as broadcasting live on his pirate radio station. Stay tuned for a tweet on what frequency you can pick it up on sometime before the show starts.

The Rumble: Los Angeles is brought to you by a collective that believes in helping young bands become bands that can sustain themselves and start a career and consists of Future Sounds, BMI, Buzzbands.LA and The Planetary Group. The Rumble is FREE.

3 CLUBS is located at 1123 Vine Street (x Santa Monica Blvd)

SAN FRANCISCO RUMBLES @ MILK TONIGHT ON HAIGHT STREET

THE RUMBLE: SAN FRANCISCO happens tonight @ Milk on Haight Street, across from Amoeba Music, and once again we're serving up three up-and-comers, DJ's, Trumer Pils beer specials and even a happy hour show.

Headlining the evening will be a band with a name that reflects the artistic past of San Francisco Beats and beyond - CITY LIGHT. City Light are Postal Service and Aqueduct-esque electro rockers and Noise Pop favorites. Their release Burned Out Bright (Banter Media) is full of bright yet distorted electronic soundscapes like "Someday Maybe" and has already caught the attention of out friends over at The Bay Bridged.

In the middle slot of the evening is the SF act that we owe a huge thanks to THE DOWNER PARTY for stepping in last minute. The four piece have been buzzing in the bay area for a while, with classic uptempo rock combined with sugary lead vocals courtesy of Sierra Frost. THE DOWNER PARTY are snotty punk rock with sharp lyrics and guitar hooks.

"Sierra Frost now kicks it awesome-style with the Downer Party, making wonderfully pure, energetic rock full of sharp hooks and off-kilter tempos." - Stranger Dance

Opening up is a band I urge you to see. Seattle and Portland are still chattering about their performances on Monday and Tuesday, but LA's CHASING KINGS are the kind of band you see once, and you'll make a point of seeing them every time they are in town. Some compare the vocal stylings to everyone from Elvis Costello to Squeeze but we strongly recommend you getting there early enough to see this band, so you can say you say them way back when playing Milk.



Resident DJ, BAGEL TED (Bagel Radio) will be there spinning throughout the night and there will be TRUMER PILS beer specials all night long as well. Be sure to get to Milk early that night for the Milk Happy Hour show that is being headlined by another up-and-comer > CASH PONY.

The party is FREE if you RSVP before 5pm today - to do so go here

http://sonicliving.com/rumble30 If you don't, it's $5 at the door.

The Rumble: San Francisco is a monthly indie rock night brought to you by SF minded friends like Future Sounds, The Owl Mag, Bagel Radio, Noise Pop, The SF Bay Guardian, Amoeba Music, The Bay Bridged and Trumer Pils.

MILK is located across the street from Amoeba Music on Haight Street

IT'S PORTLAND'S TURN TONIGHT - THE RUMBLE @ HOLOCENE

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND pulls into Holocene this evening for this month's edition featuring two locals and the touring band - Chasing Kings. Our Portland friends - Pampelmoose, Music Millennium and Cravedog are the local hosts and the party is FREE.

Headlining the party is BLOOD BEACH, a haunting shoegazy lo-fi outfit originally from Texas, calling Portland home and recently opened for Smith Westerns at Backspace. Velvet Underground combined with heavy distortion.

"Blood Beach is the weirdest. It is the new band from Tex Winters. It is folk music with psychedelic freak outs." - Crappy Indie Music

Speaking of creepy and weird (in the best possible way), check out this video....


Rolling in for night #2 of their 6 night run of Rumbles it's LA's CHASING KINGS. Without offending dozens of other 'nice' bands I've known over the years, these guys could actually be the nicest crew we've met. Singer Matt Schwartz posses that something extra, the kind of spark and God-given talent that only comes around once in awhile, and he could evolve into someone on the Chris Martin level - he's that good. Portland, support your locals but this is one out-of-towner we urge you to see.

Opening up are guys that we've quickly called 'friends' - PRIORY - a PDX four-piece calling themselves spacious folk rockers with touches of classic rock and soul with their debut scheduled to come out in June. Track “Devil vs. Heater” is sprawling number peppered with three part a cappella harmonies. Few bands have worked as hard as spreading the word, so if you already knew about tonight's party, you probably heard it from these boys. They have an EP that's just released and should be sitting on the counter of MUSIC MILLENNIUM for an easy pick-up (thanks Terry!).

Not only is the party FREE, but with TRUMER PILS beer specials all night, THE RUMBLE PDX easily trumps Taco Tuesday.

Holocene is located at 1001 Southeast Morrison Street

NEW LINE UP FOR THE RUMBLE: SAN FRANCISCO ON WEDNESDAY

With only days to go until THE RUMBLE: SAN FRANCISCO @ Milk, we had a line-up change that we wanted all of you that have RSVP'd to know and those still on the fence - THE DOWNER PARTY will now be playing in place of Leopold & His Fiction, along with headliners CITY LIGHT and LA's CHASING KINGS + DJ BAGEL TED (Bagel Radio). The rest is still the same - Free if your RSVP here:

http://sonicliving.com/rumble30

A huge thanks goes out to The Downer Party for stepping in last minute, we've been enjoying their release, "Ego-Driven Lust Creatures" for some time now and the Rumble SF collective of partners have had them on our 'we need to get them to play The Rumble list' for months.

THE RUMBLE: SEATTLE TONIGHT @ HAVANA SOCIAL CLUB

Start your week off with some music tonight as THE RUMBLE: SEATTLE returns to the comfy confines of the Havana Social Club in Capitol Hill.

This monthly indie rock night is FREE and highlights up-and-coming bands and is backed by the dream team of Seattle music supporters > The Stranger, Line Out, The Wig, Easy Street Records, Sound On The Sound and Trumer Pils.

This month we have a great 1-2 punch for you: MOTOPONY & CHASING KINGS.

Headlining the party is a band from Tacoma known as Motopony. Led by Daniel Blue, MOTOPONY are being compared to Broken Social Scene and Wilco. KEXP’s Richard Johnson has already jumped on this one, featuring “Seer” in his Song of the Day Podcast and recording a live session with the band back in January. We first heard them on John Richard's morning show and quickly became fans.

If you’ve been reading the Future Sounds blog at all over the past 6 months, you’re more than aware of our devotion to CHASING KINGS, so much so that we’ve tapped them to headline the West Coast leg of THE RUMBLE JUNE. Named one of the Top 20 Indie Bands in LA by The Deli Magazine, they’ve already shared the stage with Sea Wolf and conquered SXSW, where they played our parties as well as the Levi’s/Fader Fort. Comprised of four childhood friends, Matt Schwartz, Drew Beck, Mike Goldman and Nick Sandler, CHASING KINGS ooze a genuine enthusiasm for playing and crafting memorable melodies and harmonies that transcend whatever musical trend is penetrating the industry with The Pop Stereo calling them a “soaring breath of fresh air.” Schwartz continues to draw comparisons to Elvis Costello and Britt Daniel with vocal and key skills well beyond his years, especially on “Dark Sunglasses.”

Not only is the party FREE, there are TRUMER PILS beer specials all night!

THE RUMBLE: LAS VEGAS LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR JUNE

Just confirmed for THE RUMBLE: LAS VEGAS on June 13th @ The Thunderbird Lounge at The Aruba Hotel > CHASING KINGS + DEVILCAR + CLOSE TO MODERN. DJ AURAJIN will handle the turntables, the party is FREE, and there are $2 PBR drafts all night!

THE RUMBLE WEST COAST BANDS ANNOUNCED!

LA’S CHASING KINGS TO HOLD COURT ON JUNE RUMBLE TOUR

If you’ve been reading this blog at all over the past 6 months, you’re more than aware of our devotion to CHASING KINGS, so much so that we’ve tapped them to headline the West Coast leg of THE RUMBLE JUNE.

Named one of the Top 20 Indie Bands in LA by The Deli Magazine, they’ve already shared the stage with Sea Wolf, conquered SXSW, where they played our parties as well as the Levi’s/Fader Fort and have already snagged a spot up at the upcoming Also I Like To Rock summer series at The Hammer Museum. Comprised of four childhood friends, Matt Schwartz, Drew Beck, Mike Goldman and Nick Sandler, CHASING KINGS ooze a genuine enthusiasm for playing and crafting memorable melodies and harmonies that transcend whatever musical trend is penetrating the industry with The Pop Stereo calling them a “soaring breath of fresh air.”

Schwartz continues to draw comparisons to Elvis Costello and Britt Daniel with vocal and key skills well beyond his years, especially on “Dark Sunglasses.” Attracting the attention of bloggers and industry heavyweights including Tony Berg, who produced their six-song debut EP The Current State of Our Future last summer, Chasing Kings are on to something with their infectious piano laden indie pop. We can’t say it enough, they are a must see.

Kicking it off at THE RUMBLE SEATTLE at Havana Social Club on Monday June 7th, CHASING KINGS will be joined by Tacoma’s MOTOPONY. Led by Daniel Blue MOTOPONY are being compared to Broken Social Scene and Wilco. KEXP’s Richard Johnson has already jumped on this one, featuring “Seer” in his Song of the Day Podcast and recording a live session with the band back in January. TRUMER PILS specials all night!

Tuesday June 8th, CHASING KINGS will head down to Holocene for THE RUMBLE PORTLAND to play with PRIORY and BLOOD BEACH. PRIORY is a PDX four-piece calling themselves spacious folk rockers with touches of classic rock and soul with their debut scheduled to come out in June. Track “Devil vs. Heater” is sprawling number peppered with three part acappella harmonies.
BLOOD BEACH is a haunting shoegazy lo-fi outfit originally from Texas, calling Portland home and recently opened for Smith Westerns at Backspace. Velvet Underground combined with heavy distortion, BLOOD BEACH are right on point with lo-fi psych rock trend. With TRUMER PILS specials all night, THE RUMBLE PDX easily trumps Taco Tuesday.

On Wednesday June 9th we’ll head down to Milk for THE RUMBLE SF, where LEOPOLD & HIS FICTION and CITY LIGHT will share the bill with CHASING KINGS. Local trio Leopold & His Fiction, an act that’s long been on our radar with their southern infused rock folk meets fuzzy blues. Led by Detroit native, Daniel James, Leopold & His Fiction are the Black Keys meets The White Stripes, but better. Their recently released single, “Golden Friends” is a piece of looming 70’s freak folk goodness. With their release, Ain’t No Surprise touted as one of the Thirty-Two Greatest San Francisco Bay Area Albums of 2009 by our friends at The Bay Bridged, LAHF are Rumble ready.

CITY LIGHT, another Bay area band are Postal Service and Aqueduct esque electro rockers and Noise Pop fav. Their release Burned Out Bright (Banter Media) is full of bright yet distorted electronic soundscapes like “Someday Maybe” and has already caught the attention of out friends over at The Bay Bridged. Resident DJ, BAGEL TED will be there spinning throughout the night. RSVP at Sonic Living.

Thursday June 10th we’ll venture to 3 Clubs for THE RUMBLE LOS ANGELES where CHASING KINGS are likely to pack the house on their home turf. Also joining us are YAWN, an experimental indie pop act from Chicago. Think shades of Animal Collective with afro beat percussion and vocals in the vein of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koening. “Toys” is a danceworthy tribal jam off their Pitchfork certified self-released EP.

Rounding out the night are FOSTER THE PEOPLE, an LA based act being called the next MGMT (pre Congratulations). The brainchild of TV composer Mark Foster, Foster the People, are garnering major attention from NylonTV to London’s The Guardian. Their track “Pumped Up Kicks” has been branded the song of the summer by Black Book Mag and with a whistling hook that rivals Peter Bjorn & John’s “Young Folks” and The Drums “Let’s Go Surfing” it’s easy to agree. We’re already anticipating the dance party that’s about to occur in the backroom, so Foster the People are most definitely that band you’ll be glad you caught before they blow up…so don’t miss out.

Then Saturday June 12th were back in San Diego at Bar Pink, for what’s fast becoming one of the most best nights of The Rumble tour, with a constant stream of SD bands that never disappoint and June’s no different with MAREN PARUSEL and DRUG WARS sharing the bill with CHASING KINGS.

German songstress, MAREN PARUSEL’s reflective indie pop is melodic and beautifully orchestrated, especially “Dear Love” off their Dear Love/Days in Universe 7 inch (Single Screen Records). Formerly of Wild Weeked, an all female punk band, Parusel’s new keyboard based sound has been getting attention with a San Diego Music Award nomination for Best New Artist last summer and capturing the attention of Kim Fowley at SXSW this year.

Dirty, loud garage rock from SD best describe, DRUG WARS round out the night. Called “the best kind of post-hardcore-punk-rock to listen to” by 7 Inches, this four piece are gathering buzz even across the pond with Collective Zine UK taking notice of their 7 inch 9846 (Grizzly Records).

We'll be announcing line-ups for The Rumbles in Las Vegas, Austin and New York soon.

LIVE REVIEW FROM THE SILVERLAKE LOUNGE

Silverlake Lounge never disappoints and Tuesday night was no different, as two mainstays in the FS musical family, CHASING KINGS and ALL WRONG & THE PLANS CHANGE engaged the crowd with staggering performances, once again proving to us just why we’re fans to begin with.

We really can’t get enough of Chasing Kings, considering they blew up 3 Clubs for The Rumble in January and went with us to SXSW last month. Classic indie pop coupled with blues and 60’s and 70’s rock influences, demonstrate their deep respect for music of all genres. Matt Schwartz’s vocals and skills on the keys venture into Costello territory in the best way possible. With tracks like “Dark Sunglasses” and “Empathy,” their music is a pleasant and a fortifying change from the lo-fi world currently enveloping the industry.

Echoing the title of their EP and track, “The Current State of Our Future,” Chasing Kings are on the cusp of something bigger. A few new tracks worked their way into the set, and if these are any indication of what’s to come on their full length debut, those who’ve had the chance to catch this act at smaller venues will be saying “we knew them when.”

Next up was songstress, Morgan Nagler of celebrated indie quartet, WHISPERTOWN 2000. Accompanied by well known session player, Blake Mills on guitar ad Nick White on keys; Nagler wowed with an intimate set of solo songs about peaches, almonds and the like; each showcasing her rural voice. Closing with a soul wrenching solo version of Gillian Welch’s (Whispertown 2000 were the first signees to Welch’s Acony Records) “Look at Miss Ohio,” it’s easy to see that Nagler’s twang is rootsy indie folk personified. Watching Nagler was like taking a trip back to 2006 when I first caught The Whispertown 2000 (check out Livin’ In a Dream, a must listen); and it’s just as apparent as it was back then, that she is by far one of the emotive singers out there. Nagler excels in the lyrical storytelling department; personable, funny and never failing to create a level of intimacy with the audience that allows you to feel as if you’ve stumbled upon something special.


The evening closed with a group we at FS absolutely adore, All Wrong and the Plans Change. In the wake of 90’s alt resurgence, ala Hole, All Wrong and the Plans Change are a refreshing surprise in the mist of other imitators and most definitely the new faces of girl rock for 2010. Lead by the enigmatic Kassia Conway, with the spectacular Amy Wood on drums, this LA based group has been gaining steam for quite some time and we were fortunate enough to feature them on the Future Sounds 33 Compilation last summer.

Lush vocals, skillful guitar and some seriously amazing drums courtesy of Amy; All Wrong and the Plans Change are even better live. Their raucous, yet ethereal set was populated with personal favs like “Whiskey Birds, “Hey, Hey” and “Lately". All Wrong and the Plans Change’s recently released and sonically stunning, I’m Like Whatever EP is merely just a slice of what this quartet’s performances are like.
“I Get Down” is an infectious piece of alt pop rock genius, so it’s no wonder it caught the attention of uber music supervisor, Alex Pastsavas, meriting a spot on an episode of Gossip Girl last fall. Chrissie Hynde references be damned, Kassia’s voice is a serious force that transcends any Pretender’s comparisons.

Post by Veronica Pulcini

TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES: CHASING KINGS + ALL WRONG & THE PLANS CHANGE

Tonight @ The Silverlake Lounge it's a 4-band line-up of local talent that has a couple of our favorite bands sharing the 'Salvation' stage > CHASING KINGS and ALL WRONG & THE PLANS CHANGE. The place should be stuffed, as WHISPERTOWN 2000's Morgan Nagler plays a solo show, but they've gotten ink in everyone from Mojo, Q, Spin, NME, Uncut, Paste and Rolling Stone. Show starts at 9pm, cost is $8.

PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS & FUTURE SOUNDS SXSW TEASER

Here's just a little teaser of some of the video PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS and Future Sounds were able to capture while at SXSW at our parties, from LISSIE to KINGS GO FORTH to CHASING KINGS, just to name a few. They'll be rolling out the full-length videos along with intimate interview segments so what this space for more.....

FRIDAY @ SXSW - HERE'S ONE WAY TO SPEND YOUR ENTIRE DAY

Hopefully this early AM hazy mist will burn off and we'll have another scorcher like yesterday, but you should start your day off with us at Shangri-La for Day 3 of 4 of THE RUMBLE @ SXSW. Today's line up is about diversity, ranging from Seattle's HEY MARSEILLES to a 12 piece soul band from Milawaukee (KINGS GO FORTH) to the piano driven CHASING KINGS to the perfect party band, CASXIO. LA's THE TENDER BOX and PEPPER RABBIT round things out. Free.

Run back to your hotel/crash pad and switch into night mode quickly then meet us at EMO'S ANNEX for the WOXY Official SXSW showcase. The line up is listed above but you see a bunch of FS/WOXY favorites in the mix!

Finally, if you're feet are falling off, it's late night party time and THE MUSIC GYM give you a free party with free Trumer Pils beer with another line up of some of our favorites around FS including JAGUAR LOVE and RAINBOW ARABIA. The party is over on East 6th (815 E 6th).

TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES: ZOMBIE PROM @ THE ROXY

Love is in the air tonight @ The Roxy in Los Angeles when four bands we love around FS HQ put together a Zombie Prom Night for Valentine's Day. SAINT MOTEL has put together a dream bill of local talent making waves, as they have YOUNG THE GIANT (formerly known as THE JAKES) + CHASING KINGS + LINKS. All of these bands have graced our Rumbles but KROQ has jumped on board of this one and it's worth your $10.

VIDEO: INDIE NATION TV CAPTURES THE RUMBLE LOS ANGELES

Our friends over at INDIE NATION TV delivered this cool video from last week's RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES party @ 3 Clubs, featuring interviews and live shots from AUSHUA and CHASING KINGS.

TONIGHT - THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES @ 3 CLUBS

It's here - THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES burns tonight at 3 Clubs with 3 bands we love on a silver platter for FREE. AUSHUA, CHASING KINGS & CAT PARTY with DJ's S.i.S. will handle all the entertaining. Watch the National Championship game at the bar before the party kicks off with John and the Longhorn fans.

For once, don't be sooooo LA tonight and get there early for a change and catch a band whose 7"'s and EP's have owned me, and look for their track, "Tar & Feathers" to appear on Future Sound 34 (due out hopefully by the end of January) - CAT PARTY.

"Once upon a summer we were desperate to be younger still..."

The lyrics pulled straight from the title track of the CHASING KINGS EP, "The Current State Of Our Future", these youngsters have old souls. See the interview below for more on these guys.

Headlining the party is the band from Santa Ana known as AUSHUA, who are showing off their latest EP, "Limbo" at shows all over Southern California recently, and tonight we get the treat. We meant to do a nice interview with them and hear more about this new output of tracks but time kept on slipping, slipping, slipping...into the future....

The party is FREE and brought to you by Future Sounds, RM64, BMI, Buzzbands.LA, Stranded In Stereo, WOXY, The Owl Mag and Spin Earth.

KEEPING UP WITH THE CHASING KINGS - RUMBLE LA PREVIEW

This afternoon we had the chance to sit down with one of the bands featured on tomorrow night's RUMBLE: LA bill at 3 Clubs - CHASING KINGS - and have a talk with them to find out more about this young act whose EP, 'The Current State of Our Future", has become a favorite on the FS radio show and around the HQ.

Chasing Kings are an LA based band that originally started back in Lake Arrowhead as kids and grew into the four piece that it currently is. We were immediately struck by the lack of pretension and downright sincerity of this young band, whose members have just hit the legal drinking age (wink wink). We tried our best to get them to dish the dirt on scenes or other bands or even boast of ambitions, but what we got were four guys that love '60's music and music history for that matter, a few with jazz backgrounds, that were humble yet driven but with realistic expectations on what has become the "music business" and their definitions of success. Refreshing in our current climate of band entitlement at times because of "overnight buzz bands" happening after the blog bandwagon revs it's engine and taps someone the next Deerhunter/Animal Collective/U Name it.

The band is made up of Draw Beck, Mic Gold, Knick Sandler and Matte Schwartz and they initially got together around a shared love for The Who, and the record, "Tommy" in particular. They raided their parent's record collections and discovered that people once wrote songs that had hooks and that 30 and 4o years later, people could remember the lyrics and the basslines and purchase them over and over again, every time the medium changed. I sometimes wonder if we will look back in 20 years and collectively sing lyrics by WAAVES. Just saying.

Cruise over to the band's Myspace page HERE, and listen to "This Town". You'll hear some big swirling vocals that do not lack ambition, they are full throttled blasts of a band that believes in their craft. They just returned from their first nationwide tour, self-booked, that had them playing places like Boston, universities around New York City, and a secret house party in Montreal. What we're hoping to get a taste of tomorrow night when they hit the stage around 10:15pm is the chops they've developed from playing night after night to those indifferent and those that meet them at the merch table later to pick up their self-released EP.

They are writing new material for a full length, that early on was set for unveiling by SXSW (the band is heading to Austin in March) but now is going to be patiently developed on the schedule that is reality. They look to bands like GRIZZLY BEAR as a role model "in just the fact that they went from making records that they do all themselves into touring constantly and continuing to do it all themselves". Sustainability is their goal, and success is touring with acts they admire and building their footprint.

No Future Sounds interview is complete without us asking the up-in-coming bands we love to tell us about bands that they love that we may not know of yet, and the foursome all agreed that the one we should all put on our radar is CHERRY CHAPSTICK. The main guy in Cherry Chapstick played guitar with them in Boston, but is from Montreal, and they are an electronic indie band with 2 EP's released. Check out this picture of them above, it's already interesting (check out your boy to the left).

Others bands that they mentioned that they would recommend are Portland's MIMICKING BIRDS or two bands from CALARTS out in Valencia: MAGIC MOUNTAIN and WHITE HORSES IN TECHNOCOLOR EVERYWHERE. The final act that they met out on the east coast but that have recently moved to Los Angeles is VERB THE ADJECTIVE NOUN.

THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES goes down tomorrow night at 3 Clubs. It's Free.

THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES THIS THURSDAY @ 3 CLUBS

Happy New Year!

If you are like us, you've had your fill of down time, Mom's pies, bad television, and it's time to shake off the holidays and get back on the street and see some live music. This Thursday, THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES returns to 3 Clubs with a line up that will force you back into the game.

AUSHUA, a local band we fell for back when we had "Sister Saves" grace Future Sounds 30 back in October '07. They've only gotten stronger and are out showing off their new material.

CHASING KINGS - A trusted source first turned us onto their new material, and songs like "This Town" have earned a regular spot on the weekly Future Sounds playlist on WOXY. Can't wait to see this band live.

CAT PARTY- We basically started stalking this band soon after hearing early demos and 7" vinyl only releases, then just got their EP. Look for them to appear on upcoming Future Sounds releases, be sure to get to the show early so you don't miss this potential break out act of 2010.

The lovely ladies that are DJ S.i.S. spin everything without pretension as our resident DJ's.

The party is FREE and brought to you by Future Sounds, RM64, BMI, Buzzbands.LA, Stranded In Stereo, WOXY, The Owl Mag and Spin Earth.

3 CLUBS is located on the corner of Vine and Santa Monica Blvd.

FUTURE SOUNDS RADIO DEBUTS 11.02.09

Here is more information on artists that were debuts on this week's Future Sounds radio show on WOXY.....

BODY LANGUAGE
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, NY
TRACK: Huffy Ten Speed

This one came from reliable sources that are always right, and with no let down, here's BODY LANGUAGE. They are a part of the PASSION PIT camp and are playing our Rumble: Brooklyn event now thanks to this amazing EP. Unsigned

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Wellington, New Zealand
TRACK: They Don't Want

Giving credit where it's due, we got this one from one of our favorite blogs, YOURS TRULY, and fell instantly for this Kiwi act that sounds like you'd find it in Dusty Grooves. Unsigned

TRUE WIDOW
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Dallas, TX
TRACK: Duelist

This Dallas trio sound HUGE, and mix lush, mesmerizing vocals with Nirvana like alternative rock. This is one band I'm going to track down to see live. Unsigned

THE CROOKES
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: London
TRACK: Chorus Of Fools

Mixing THE SMITHS with THE HOUSEMARTINS and VAMPIRE WEEKEND and you get a cocktail that is THE CROOKES, a band that had a buzz at ITC and lived up to it with their "take-it-to-the-streets" approach, complete with a closer in the crowd. Unsigned

THE MOLOTOVS
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: London
TRACK: One Up On Me

Those Fierce Panda cats know how to throw a party and their ITC showcase at Cellar Vie highlighted some incredible bands we didn't know in the UK. THE MOLOTOVS were one of the highlights of this year's ITC.

GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: London
TRACK: Hope Hung High

I was lucky enough to catch these guys in Manchester at In The City - fantastic live act that has just signed with Fierce Panda. The song speaks for itself, but it's one of five great ones I've heard initially. The real deal.

STREET HERO
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Brooklyn
TRACK: Brooklyn Boys

Despite this band photo, I think this one has some serious potential as a bonafide radio hit - "Brooklyn Boys" should pop out of obscurity to mainstream quickly enough. Unsigned

EMEEN ZAROOKIAN
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Cambridge, MA
TRACK: Flytrap

Call him Emeen Z, call him SPIRIT KID, I call him the one man machine of talent from Harvard. Every track passed along to us has something extra, look out for Emeen once he gets rolling. Unsigned

MARIAH MCMANUS
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Whittier, CA
TRACK: Standing At The Scene

Returning pride back to the musical name of MARIAH, it's 17 year old (yep, that's right, I said 17) Mariah McManus who has recently gone solo from her previous projects and dropped this stunning track with touches of BJORK and IMOGEN HEAP. Unsigned

CHASING KINGS
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Los Angeles
TRACK: This Town

How did this one slip past us in our own backyard for so long?? I just received a batch of songs from their new release and every track is strong. Unsigned

HOLIDAY SHORES
MYSPACE
HOMETOWN: Tallahassee, Florida
Track: Reruns

About to tour with The Evangelicals throughout the US, it's yet another Florida on the rise! I can tell at first listen that this band has quite a bit to back this up with - stay tuned.....TwoSyllable Records

LISTEN TO FUTURE SOUNDS ON WOXY 11.02.09

Future Sounds #44 – 11/02/2009

MillionYoung – Hammock – Sunndreamm EP – Unsigned
Body Language – Huffy Ten Speed – Body Language – Unsigned
Electric Wire Hustle – They Don’t Want – Electric Wire Hustle – Unsigned
True Widow – Duelist – True Window – End.Sounds
Woven Bones – If You’re Gold, I’m Gone – Minus Touch – Unsigned

BREAK

Cashier No. 9 – 42 West Avenue – Demos – Unsigned
The Crookes – Chorus Of Fools – Demos - Unsigned
The Molotovs – One Up On Me – And the Heads Did Roll – Fierce Panda
Tigers That Talked – 23 Fears – The Merchant – Unsigned
Chapel Club – Surfacing – Chapel Club – Unsigned

BREAK

Goldheart Assembly – Hope Hung High – Demos – Fierce Panda
Treetop Flyers – Mountain Song – EP – Unsigned
Leader Cheetah – Straight To The Bone – The Sunspot Letters – Spunk! Records
Brazos – Day Glow – Bed OF Roses – Unsigned
O Emperor – Po – Hither Thither – Unsigned

BREAK

Hotels – Kite Fight – Where Hearts Go Broke – Hidden Shoals Recordings
Cat Party – Rhapsody In Black – Bionic Ear Sessions – Unsigned
AWOLNation – Guilty Filthy Souls – Demos – Unsigned
Mack Winston & The Reflections – Mean To Be Cold – Night & Day – Candor Music
Street Hero – Brooklyn Boys – Dim Ho EP – Unsigned

BREAK

Emeen Zarookian – Flytrap – Demos – Unsigned
Whale Tooth – Hibernation Song – Whale Tooth EP – Unsigned
Mariah McManus – Standing At The Scene – EP – Unsigned

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SPECIAL FUTURE SOUNDS RECORDS SINGLE RELEASE
Apes Of Wrath – Deathtrain – Deathtrain Single – Future Sounds Records

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THE HOT 5
Prayer – Bobby – New Demos – Feudal Records
Chasing Kings – This Town – The Current State Of Our Future – Unsigned
Holiday Shores – Reruns – Columbus’d The Whim – Twosyllable Records
Them: Youth – Stardust – Demos – Unsigned
Twin Tigers – Passive Idol – Gray Waves – Old Flame Records

END OF PROGRAM

* Bold denotes FS radio show debut artist