If the stars would have aligned, Castledoor would be touring on its second album about now, building on the momentum they had back in 2007. Instead the band bade farewell early last year, its members scattering and its songs echoing (still lovingly, it should be pointed out) in the iPods of veteran Silver Lakers. As [...]

The best recommendation services in the world can’t top the human recommendation model. It’s perfect. Someone knows a few bands you like, they calculate it in their heads, and BLAM, the next new love of your musical life is waiting for you to hit play on. Many companies go out and try to analyze what we [...]

Well, there really isn’t much to say here, aside from how great this song is. “Flashlight” comes from LA’s Castledoor, an act I think I heard a couple years back but just recently took the time to seek out (which makes me fairly upset, as they’ve been going at it for five years now). What [...]

photography by Benjamin Hoste On Princeton’s final night of their Spaceland residency, Castledoor played their last show with their current line up. Their performance was noticeably emotional especially for singer Nate Cole who flung himself about at times while at times slightly shifting a song’s lyrics.

Well, this week was more of an emotional roller coaster then we anticipated: Two Castledoor members said goodbye, Club Ding-a-ling celebrated 3 years of being the best Tuesday weekly of the last 3 years (pictured above), Mary Lynn Rajskub performed one of the most unconformable comedy routines we've ever seen, and Lionheart">Ferraby Lionheart capped off his month-long residency at the Bootleg by

*Castledoor* (http://www.myspace.com/castledoormusic) have broken (http://castledoor.blogspot.com/2010/02/best-is-yet-to-come.html) up. Submitted by thehereaway

Today's 'News In Brief' is sponsored by really awful alarm clocks. ILL FIT have added The Last Dinosaur to their roster. Which is very exciting news because they're damn good. Their debut album, Hooray! For Happiness , comes out on the 19th of April (Dearstereofan Records). Midlake will be celebrating the release of “The Courage Of Others” this Monday with an exclusive in-store performance at Rough Trade East. The first 250 people to purchase the album from Rough Trade will receive a wristband for the event that evening, Monday 1 February – LONDON – Rough Trade East (Instore – 7pm) Upcoming UK ...

Thanksgiving is officially behind us and now it's full force til Christmas.The entire music industry shuts down after Dec 10th which means far less tours but more holiday parties stocked with Egg Nog! Some scene gossip: Local Natives have just signed to French Kiss Records and will be putting out their debut LP Gorilla Manor on Feb. 17th. Congrats gents! I have known Local Natives a very long time and I'm excited they've found such a good home. Indie darlings Cold Cave will return to Southern California this week with two shows. I missed them at ...

This Saturday night in Hollywood, we're presenting a beer festival at the gorgeous MUSIC BOX @ FONDA where for the $45 ticket price, you can drink unlimited tastings of over 35 breweries while watching bands on two stages and dancing to DJ's on the rooftop. You've been to some beer festivals, you know what I'm talking about, the kind where people have their hat backwards, in some field with white tents, and if they happen to have music playing, it isn't the kind you wanna hear. We're looking to flip that experience, deliver cool sounds ...

FUTURE SOUNDS #45 - November 9, 2009 The Molotovs – One Up On Me – And The Heads Did Roll – Fierce Panda MillionYoung – Youthless – Sunndreamm EP – Unsigned Holiday Shores – Reruns – Columbus’d The Whim – TwoSyllable Records The Crookes – Chorus Of Fools – Demos - Unsigned Them: Youth – Stardust – Demos – Unsigned BREAK Kids Of 88 – Sugar Pills – Demos – Unsigned The Rentals – Traces Of Our Tears – Songs About Time – Unsigned Qu’est-ce Que C-est – The Get Away!! – Demos – Unsigned Body Language – Huffy Ten Speed – Body Language – Unsigned Prayer – Bobby – Demos – Feudal Records BREAK HOLLYWOOD BREWFEST PREVIEW Great Northern – Story – Remind Me Where The Light Is - Eenie Meenie ...

Exciting week of activities leads us to the beginning of a week-long (or is it a long week?) parade of Halloween-related events around town so let's get to it...Tonight, listen up for Spirit Fangs on Demolisten. Castledoor, We Barbarians, and others at the Bootleg. Spindrift, Xu Xu Fang, and others at Viper. Jeremy Jay and others at The Smell. Jon Brion at g'net. White Arrows opens for Kurt Vile

The first ever HOLLYWOOD BREWFEST @ The Music Box @ Fonda is now on November 14th . Prepare yourselves for an entire day of music, food and most importantly, BEER. With over 35 breweries showing up we're going to put them everywhere, on the Fonda rooftop, in a beer garden outside, and on every level on the venue itself and in the Blue Palms Brewhouse. The line up has been confirmed and GREAT NORTHERN are headlining, with DUM DUM GIRLS and THE DEADLY SYNDROME coming on before them, as well as NICO STAI, CASTLEDOOR, THE TENDER BOX, THE DIAMOND LIGHT, THE FEROCIOUS ...

Not surprisingly, Michael Jackson covers have been coming fast and furious these past few days. Whatever you thought of the man, you can’t deny the music. CoverLayDown’s got a good round-up of what’s already been done, so we’re going to try something a little different. Michael passed on Thursday afternoon. By concert time that evening, artists were already beginning to bust out Jackson songs in tribute, a trend that only intensified over the weekend. So here are some of those live covers, recordings of tributes performed since Jackson’s death. They’re in turns emotional, joyous ...

Went to the last Castledoor residency show last night and was bummed that Fool’s Gold had pulled off the bill. I was ready for some more dance party! Ok, maybe not… I was tired and fading fast. But hopefully I’ll be ready when they play Sunset Junction in August. They’ve now signed with IAMSOUND (who also [...]

Thursday: Papercuts, Port O’Brien, Still Flyin’ @ The Independent Papercuts – “You Can Have What You Want” Friday: Sugar & Gold, Music for Animals, Castledoor @ Rickshaw Stop Sugar & Gold – “Slice Me Nice” Friday: Magic Bullets, Shannon and the Clams, Bridez @ Bottom of the Hill Magic Bullets – “The Book is Closed” Saturday: Citay, Tune-Yards, The Dry Spells, [...]