Low Flying Owls are back – even if, in reality, only the name went away. As a Sacramento-based quartet, LFO emerged as a band to watch upon releasing the album “Elixir Vitae” on Stinky Records in 2003. Its dark, biting take on psychedelic rock bode greater things, but the follow-up album “was rejected for being […]
[Happy birthday to silky smooth soul singer Anthony Hamilton, the pride of Charlotte, N.C. …] Speaking of Charlotte, another one of that city’s native sons, Benji Hughes [pictured], is back in L.A., where he’s on a first-name basis with many fans of his sprawling, genre-hopping album “A Love Extreme.” (“Gonna go see Benji tomorrow?” somebody […]
[Notes from the Interweb …] ”¢ The first songs from L.A. shoegaze trio Gliss’ forthcoming album, “Devotion Implosion,” hit iTunes today. “Sad Eye” and “Anybody Inside” reveal Gliss at its damaged, Jesus and Mary Chain-meets-Raveonettes finest. The full-length will be out in April on Cordless Recordings, and the threesome recently debuted some of the album’s […]
Local quintet Eagle Winged Palace has signed to Park the Van Records, the label home of Dr. Dog and the Spinto Band. The project started by Eric “Cashew” Harding, formerly a principal in the Prix, Eagle Winged Palace will release its debut EP “Hand of Doom” on March 17. The fivesome is currently recording a […]
[Happy birthday to Mike Patton — who’s apparently performing at Coachella in April not with Faith No More but with beatboxer Rahzel. … No Coachella lineup announcement this morning, by the way. Stay tuned.] Big goings-on at the Echo, where the Voyeurs and Go West Young Man celebrate their album releases, and the Echoplex, where […]
I suspect that by tomorrow we will have a lineup for Coachella 2009, or the bulk of one, and like the populace on the message boards, the overlord of the Who Will Play Coachella 2009 blog and the young man who creates these wishful posters (he’s in high school and he has skills), I’m anxious. […]
The way they bond, Jonathan Hylander and Sean Johnson may as well be twin drummers of different mothers. The pair, the driving force behind the Voyeurs, were pounding the skins for different South Bay bands when they met. They went on to play in the formidable but ill-fated (and hard to type) quartet E>K>U>K before […]
Dispatch from the Midwest: Casey Meehan [left], the Chicago-based artist who launched the online music distributor that offered free downloads of Jay Bennett’s album last year, today releases the album by his new project, Jitney. The album, “86-300,” is available for free at Rock Proper. Jitney’s album – which is quite a tour de force […]
[Birthday greetings today go out to Lucinda Williams …] Pop Levi performs tonight at the Echoplex to benefit the very fine 826LA as part of Tiny Vaudeville, a night of music, comedy, short films, novelty acts, lectures and slide shows. The night promises an appearance by “an actor so famous we can’t mention the name” […]
Wild Light’s reach might have exceeded its grasp on Saturday night at the El Rey Theatre, but the New Hampshire quartet still displayed a keen sense of songcraft that marks them as future contenders. The foursome writes big anthems that remind you of Arcade Fire, the Killers and U2, and while the material isn’t exactly […]
