London’s Mystery Jets are the kind of band that leave you talking about what they were wearing rather than what they were playing. Not that they were bad on Wednesday at Club NME at Spaceland – after all, most any second-tier band from the U.K. can come across the pond and rock the socks off […]
Here’s a fun little DIY video from L.A. singer-songwriter Sara Lov’s cover series. Lov, whose debut album “Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming” comes out March 17, covers Silversun Pickups’ “Kissing Families,” with sideman/producer Zac Rae playing a small piano. And, yes, that’s SSPU frontman Brian Aubert joining in on tambourine. Speaking of the Pickups, their sophomore […]
[Happy birthday to Yoko Ono, 76 years young. Not that she isn’t getting birthday greetings from all over …] Mystery Jets, the Syd Barrett-worshiping, 1980s-channeling quintet from London, are newly aligned with Rough Trade Records. Their “Twenty One” was No. 8 on NME’s top albums of 2008, though it was barely a blip on anybody’s […]
Henry Rollins is going to have watch his language again. The songwriter/spoken-word artist/author and former Black Flag frontman returns to the FM airwaves with a weekly show from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday nights on KCRW-FM. Rollins hosted a show on the late, great Indie 103.1 until the station changed formats in January. He […]
Ears are still buzzing and text messages twittering over Jane’s Addiction’s not-quite-an-hour set on Monday night at the Echoplex (along with the news that JA will tour with Nine Inch Nails). I was otherwise engaged, but one of the messages I received from a trusty source went something like this: “Jane’s is (bleeping) destroying. Totally […]
Fol Chen, “Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made” (today, Asthmatic Kitty) – As with his previous project Bedroom Walls and its self-christened genre appellation “romanticore,” Adam Goldman remains just as much about creating mythos as music. Oh, he’s still twee as heck, and every bit the art-schooler, only cleverer now. He goes by Samuel […]
Visiting Alain Whyte’s MySpace page makes you want to dash out some lyrics, grab a microphone and start singing. There, he has posted a half-dozen rock ‘n’ roll tracks that are stereo-ready – except for the absence of vocals. That’s the way the L.A.- based songwriter and producer works, and has for years with his […]
[Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong turns 37 today, and you ought to be hearing new stuff from him on the radio soon, with the band’s new album “21st Century Breakdown” coming in May …] Charlie Wadhams had quite a warm-up for tonight’s Hotel Cafe show. On Monday he was scheduled to do a short set […]
There will be no general admission tickets available for the Jane’s Addiction show tonight at the Echoplex, honchos at the venue said this afternoon. If you were not one of the 500 who signed up on the band’s website and received confirmation e-mails, you’re out of luck. Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer’s new band, Dot Hacker, will […]
The sweaty, sold-out show by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on Nov. 13 at the Echo was a hit with longtime fans of the Texas trio. Spaceland Recordings will release a live album recorded at the gig later this spring – for now, however, they are offering a free download […]
