Tasty tidbits for Saturday

"Cavalry of Light," the EP from L.A.'s Lavender Diamond, will be re-released by

Matador Records on Jan. 30 as the psych-pop quartet gears up for the release of its

full-length in May. The album, to be titled "Imagine Our Love," was undergoing

some remastering this week, as multi-talented dude Ron Rege Jr. (drummer/cartoonist)

finished up the artwork. "I'm just to the moment of listening to it and thinking

'Oh my God,'" singer Becky Starks says.

||| The quartet has a gig Jan. 25 at Safari Sam's.

||| Still available: a download of "Yo

u Broke My Heart."

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The husband-and-wife team of Sean and Juliette Beavan, who as 8mm released the lovely, languorous "Songs to

Love and Die By" last year, have put up a video for their song

"Stunning." It's a D.I.Y. affair, shot by Juliette on a Samsung cellphone and

edited in iMovie.

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Fast forward:  Ex-Something Corporate guitarist William Tell's hook-happy, power-poppy

"You Can't hold Me Down" will be out  March 6 on Universal imprint 

New Door Records. . . . The One Am Radio, the name under which Hrishikesh Hirway (just

call him "rishie") makes poignant bedroom pop, releases "This Too Will

Pass" Feb. 20 on Dangerbird Records; he's offering a download of "In the Time

We've Got" of his MySpace page

and a handful of older songs here. . .

. Youthful rockers the Willowz, the

newest addition to the roster of Dim Mak, release their third album,

"Chautauqua," on March 20; the play Jan. 26 at the House of Blues Anaheim

with  Moving Units.

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Tonight's touts: Mash-up madman Girl Talk whips folks into a frenzy tonight at the

Echo; the Plug Independent Music Awards show at

the Little Radio warehouse features a couple of L.A.'s best unsigned acts, Foreign Born

and the Gray Kid, along with Great Northern (debut out May 20); metal from Neurosis at

the El Rey; and, well, if anybody sees this please satisfy my morbid curiosity and

report back to me -- Lucy

Lawless (that's Xena) at the Roxy. Tonight's show is sold out; there's another

Sunday.

Comments

[The Riverboat Captain]

Well, here's a taster for Lucy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n74btuvwbA

Ahem.