Eat Skull- Wild and Inside

To kick off the new Bandwidth Blog, here's a few tracks from lo-fi sorta garage punk band.  It's simple but catchy.  They had a short set at Fuck Yeah Fest.  If you missed them, here's a few tracks to get you started: Stick To The Formula   Heaven's Stranger Be sure to check em' out at their myspace or better yet, buy some of their stuff here! Disclaimer: If the band does not wish to have their songs posted here, please email us at publications@kscr.org and we'll take it down immediately.

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Bandwidth Reloaded

Now that school is officially back in session and programing has started, it's time to start blogging again! Expect more posts in the future... and keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming fall issue of Bandwidth.  We'll also be including some free downloands and what-not.    

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Electro? LA Halloween Options 2008

So Halloween is this Friday. Still don't have plans? Like electronic music? We can help.  The good thing is that this Halloween there are plenty of choices of events to go to. You have an opportunity to go to not one, not two, but three places in the same night.  First off, the most recently announced event is an Ed Banger Halloween Party. 

Sponsored by Nike, the french Ed Bangers DJs will be hosting a Halloween Kick-Off party at the Montalban Theater in Hollywood. This is the same theater that Soulwax will be screening their Part of the Weekend Never Dies on the 28th. The new Busy P AirForces will be unveiled at the event, and you will have an opportunity to meet the members of the Ed Rec Crue, while still outfitted in your Daft Punk knock-off Halloween costume. There's no RSVP, so just show up. The event starts at 5PM at the Montalban.

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What to do next? Well, of course there's Hard Haunted Mansion, but if you don't have tickets to it, or if you intend on showing up late, you could always check out an event sponsored by LA Metromix.

The people who brought you the weekly DanceRight event at La Cita bring you Drop-Dead Gorgeous Halloween at the Natural History Museum directly South of USC. Here you can catch DJ Sets from Treasure Fingers, Classixx, and my pick Holy Ghost. The best part of this event is that it is absolutely free for admission. Don't want to fork out $60 for a Hard Ticket? This is your best bet. There is a catch, though, to admission: you simply need to RSVP. Easy, right? Open up your favorite email program or webmail site and send your confirmation over to metromix@danceright.com. If you're going to this event and staying there, enjoy yourself. But if not, you always have the option of walking over to Hard Fest going on within walking distance. A safe bet would be to pay couple bucks and parking over at the University of Southern California Parking Structure X on Figueroa. This parking structure is located right in between, and is walking distance, both the Metromix and Hard events. That being said, you can head north on Figueroa and find yourself at one of the most epic electronic events that Los Angeles has ever hosted. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet Hard Haunted Mansion. 

With a line-up featuring the biggest names in electronic music, I have no doubt that this event will be the highlight of the night. You will have an opportunity to catch the likes of Justice, Soulwax, SMD, Boys Noize, Crystal Castles, Crookers, and a few others...... all in the same night! If you haven't bought your tickets for this yet, you should because they may sell out and/or reach capacity early. So get your costume, get your ass to the Shrine on Halloween night, and prepare for one of the biggest nights of electronic music ever to take place in the western hemisphere.  ------------------------------------------------------------------ But wait.... there's more. Still not satisfied? Halloween is not just a night... it's the whole weekend.

By the time you wake up the following morning hungover from Hard Fest, you have just enough time to get yourself and a few close companions in a car, and head east to the northbound Interstate 15. Follow the road for a couple hundred miles, and you will end up in Las Vegas where the party never ends. The Fabulous Festival is the biggest electronic show in Las Vegas history, where you can catch sets from  MSTRKRFT, Crystal Castles (again), DEADMAU5, HeartsRevolution, and [once again] the Ed Banger Crew featuring Busy P, DJ Mehdi, SebastiAn, SoMe and Mr Flash. Since Las Vegas is lenient with ordinances, curfews and whatnot, expect this event to go on until the wee hours. And if these don't satisfy you... I don't know what else to say.

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Musiholic's Anonymous

Myself: Hello My name is Karl Nickenig (anonymous group): Hi Karl Myself:  I'm a musiholic and I love every minute of it! This is the dialogue that runs through my head everytime I think about my love for music.  It's unquenchable.  It's like an addiction to crack-cocaine. It's like the bottomless pit that swallowed up Boba Fett in Return of the Jedi.  If I could, I would marry music and make it my baby's momma.  My headphones are my light and my iPod is my Bible.  I devour music in all formats: LP, CD, Cassette, 8-track, MP3, Radio airwaves, Grocery stores and Live, all as the good Lord intended.  Lo-fi, Hi-fi, Mid-fi and No-fi I love em all baby.  I don't just have one poison of choice either; I listen to everything from rap, to gypsy jazz, to punk, to pop, to classical.  Its an Obsession (trademark of Calvin Klein).  However I would like to shift the focus off of me for a moment (I know my prose is so intriguing, enticing and titillating [haha tit]) and I would like to focus on those of you who enjoy the fine blogications of Bandwidth.  Start getting addicting to music!!  I know this may sound like a blunt statement, but believe me once you get hooked on music you just can't quit (and won't regret it).  Now you may be saying to yourself "but I'm just a young, supple 18 to 25 year old manchild/womengirl,  how am I supposed to start getting into new awesome music?".  Well mister/miss Debbie Downer what I got are three simple tips that will help you on your musical journey. 1.  Keep an open mind - just try to see whats out there and judge the music for whats its worth.  I've heard too many people say "I like all music...except classical and country" and thats the wrong frame of mind.  Don't let your preconceived notions about a genre or artist get in the way of actually listening to the music and judging it on its own terms. 2.  Actively seek out different music media- Now there is nothing wrong with listening to the big corporate radio stations every once in a while, but you can't find interesting music outside the pop mainstream without (wait for it this is the shocker) GETTING OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM EVERY ONCE AND A WHILE!!!  There are alot of cool radio stations out there that play interesting music not played on the big radio stations (*Cough KSCR Cough*).  There are also good podcasts and sites where you can find the music you want and maybe something you didn't expect.  Some other good places to check out (besides our lovely radio station) are NPR's All Songs Considered, Pandora.com, Finetune.com, and the indiefeed podcast (all are free which is also a plus for us poor college folk). 3.Don't Give Up - at some point along the line for some reason you may feel discouraged because you can't seem to find the music that you like.  Well all I gotta say is don't give up!  Finding new (good) music is totally worth the blood, sweat and tears you put into it and you'll feel good about finding something new that you like on your own terms. 4.  Bake a Pumpkin Pie- It's October and they're delicious . With all these steps in mind you should be on your way to becoming a Musiholic!

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