On Thursday August 5th, three bands played a free show in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival.
Holly Miranda, Joan as Policewoman, and Metric took the stage — Holly Miranda and Metric were definitely the best bands of the evening.
Highlights were Holly Miranda playing “Waves” and “I’d Rather Go Blind,” with Kaki King joining in on guitar, and Metric playing an acoustic version of “Combat Baby” as the last song of the encore.
This week, check out LA band Love Darling on MySpace.
You can listen to several Love Darling songs, and sign up for their newsletter for a free download of “Hazy.”
Watch 2 videos of The Morning Benders cover “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac. The first video is a duet of “Dreams” with Holly Miranda:
Torry Castellano has officially retired as the drummer of The Donnas due to prolonged wrist & shoulder injuries.
She will be attending Stanford in the fall. For more info, click here.
Tough Crowd was a side-project featuring Mickey Madden (bassist of Maroon 5) and Harley Viera-Newton.
Click here for their MySpace and listen to their great cover of “Forbidden City” by Electronic, yesterday’s Song of the Day.
Scroll down to discover the answers and see who the mystery kids grew up to be.
1. Child #1 is Robert Schwartzman, frontman of Rooney:
2. Child #2 is Jeff Conrad, drummer of Phantom Planet:
3. Child #3 is Sherri Dupree of Eisley:
4. Child #4 is Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan:
5. Child #5 is Taylor Locke of Rooney and The Roughs:
6. Child #6 is Sam Farrar, bassist of Phantom Planet:
7. Person #7 is Gene Simmons of KISS:
8 and 9. Children #8 and #9 are Weston and Stacy Dupree of Eisley:
10. Child #10 is Tennessee Thomas, drummer of The Like:
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