What’s in the suitcase? Lemon Sun frontman Rob Kolar finds out in the video for the L.A. quintet’s new single “Touch the Lightning.” The stop-motion film is the brainchild of Emily Wilder (night job: fronting the L.A. trio Wet & Reckless), who stitched together hundreds of photographs to create the piece. ||| Live: Lemon Sun […]
[Birthday greetings to out today to Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon. Meanwhile, here’s what’s up tonight …] A U.K.-oriented club night called This Feeling – which has proven successful in London – dips its toes into Los Angeles waters tonight, kicking off at the Silverlake Lounge with a program hosted and headlined by KAV [pictured]. The […]
Join me at 11 this morning for the Buzz Bands LA show in Indie1031.com as I bid farewell to April and some of the fine bands I witnessed this month, look ahead to the resident bands you will from in May and try to find some appropriate way to celebrate Isobel Campbell’s birthday. If there’s […]
The tremulous nasal falsetto of Roger Hodgson haunts me even now, in dreams. Awakening from a nightmare world in which Supertramp top the charts once again (raking in the moolah from sold-out tours worldwide, basking in the adulation of a billion shiny happy people), I heard a song from the Devendra Banhart-endorsed Arizona quintet What […]
Dr. Dog [pictured], supported by Deer Tick and Pepi Ginsberg, headlines the Fonda Theatre behind its new album “Shame, Shame.” … Chasing Kings rock the Silverlake Lounge in support of a solo gig by Morgan Nagler of the Whispertown 2000. All Wrong and the Plans Change and WT2K member Tod Wisenbaker also play. … And there’s […]
[Disclosures: Linus of Hollywood is the answer to the trivia question “Who is the first artist to appear in the Buzz Bands column?” (October 2002, for his collaboration with Tim Burgess). Kay Hanley is a notorious Boston Red Sox fan whom I admire despite my lingering bitterness over the 2004 World Series, possibly because she […]
“Let Go,” the first single off Los Angeles quintet Everest’s new album, is a shimmering little slice of optimism driven by relentless percussion, Jason Soda’s guitar riff and and a bass line that tickles the back of your neck. If it feels as if the flannel-shirted local heroes are going for a grander sound than […]
The Stagecoach festival brought some twang to the desert this past weekend – the lineup for the country and roots music version of Coachella mixed commercial favorites with some Western legends and more cutting-edge fare. Photographer Scott Dudelson sends along this gallery and a short list of his personal highlights: ‣ Merle Haggard: For no […]
[Happy birthday to Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor, who hits the big five-oh today. It’s just a number, y’know …] Aqualung, the nom de tune of British singer-songwriter Matt Hales, last week released its sixth album, “Magnetic North.” It sounds a bit like Beck-as-a-piano-man in places, Chris Martin-as-Beck in others and Mark Everett-as-Chris Martin in others; […]
On assignment for SPIN.com, I reviewed the unsinkable Shelby Lynne and British crooner Findlay Brown at the Roxy on Thursday night. Lynne played her new album front to back – for me, the highlights were “Alibi,” “Home Sweet Home” and “Old Dog.” Here’s the link to the whole review.
