[Once around the weekend, quickly and briefly, as we work toward Perry Farrell’s big 50th birthday on Sunday …] Tonight: Hard-touring Cold War Kids have just set off on a monthlong U.S. jaunt that brings them to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A., with support from fellow Long Beachers Crystal Antlers. (Side note: On April […]
Little Radio’s fine staff is a bit under the weather, post-South by Southwest, so the Buzz Bands show will take this morning off. You can still stream LR’s fine pre-programmed selections, and hopefully by early this afternoon, I will have a podcast posted for your listening pleasure.
Jonneine Zapata casts herself as something of a mystery woman, and it’s not just the icy, inhabited-by-the-music glare she projects onstage. The L.A.-singer will have you believe that with little more music training than the exposure to Mom’s record collection (heavy on the Motown) and childhood sing-alongs she has arrived where she is today, fronting […]
[Birthday cheers to Steve Tyler, even if Blender magazine won’t be celebrating any more …] I’ll start with a couple of fun-sounding under-the-radar things: Canadian genre-hoppers Hot Panda [pictured] plays the early set at the Silverlake Lounge. Then there is the electro-cool Alaska in Winter at Bordello. [Sample both below]. … Rosemary’s Garden, the new […]
[The Henry Clay People continue their tour diary, getting all sweaty about last week’s frolicking at the South by Southwest Music Festival.” Joey Siara reports:] So we officially survived our second SXSW. It’s kind of like running a marathon, not that I would know, but I imagine the exhaustion is comparable, except instead of drinking […]
[Aretha Franklin, Elton John and Nick Lowe all celebrate birthdays today. Party on …] The waves of post-South by Southwest shows continue to lap on L.A.’s shores, and tonight NYC duo Black Gold [pictured], fresh from a half-dozen gigs in Austin, rocks Club NME at Spaceland along with Vancouver’s No Kids. … There are three […]
The music of Australian duo An Horse is made of the simplest ingredients: guitar, drums, vocals and honesty. None of the first three is going make any jaws drop – drummer Damon Cox is suitably thrashy and energetic, while his Brisbane cohort Kate Cooper sings plaintively, even flatly, over her scratchy chord progressions. So raw […]
[Happy birthday to Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers, and here are some shows you might want to drive by …] I dare you to see An Horse [pictured] and not be completely won over. The Aussie duo is at the Echoplex with Nova Scotia’s Wintersleep. … Then again, you could be won over by […]
Australian quartet the Temper Trap caused quite a stir last week at South by Southwest, attracting music industry scouts from far and wide to gigs that stamped them as, possibly, a Very Big Band – or at least one approaching their arena-sized sound.” Monday night’s show at Spaceland, then, was kind of a test to […]
Kenan Bell is a schoolteacher by day, an MC by night and a man who sees the world in verse, writing material that he constantly commits to his Sidekick and e-mails to himself for use in his music. The debut album of his indie-rock-oriented hip-hop won’t be out until later this year, but the pride […]
