[I have a copious amount of new music to share this week – so much that I’m starting on a holiday. Enjoy yours.] Shane Alexander has been crafting beautiful songs around these parts for better than a decade now, first as a member of the L.A. band Damone* and for the past four albums as […]
[Hello, hello … Anybody out there on a Monday holiday? No? Yes?] Add the Young Veins to the latest batch of groups diving into the Swell Sounds of the Sixties. Or Something Similar. The L.A.-based quintet, spearheaded by ex-Panic at the Disco dudes Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, conjoin a little British Invasion with a […]
||| Source: Mumford & Sons, “Little Lion Man” ||| Live: Mumford & Sons play Thursday and Friday at the Fonda Theatre. More: Stolen Lyric artist: mumford & sons
If only the world were a pop place. Hunter Curra looks like a guy who’s spent long hours wrestling with that notion, and no matter how he tries to whitewash it, or what melody it’s set to, the vagaries of day-to-day life are fraught with noxious subtext. “All those sweet and saccharine songs – that’s […]
[Buzz Bands contributor Rich Thomas reports from Thursday night’s show at the Fonda: By Rich Thomas Because of all the sonic minutiae and rhythmic detail that goes into their programming, as well as the distinctly more expansive and song-based approach to their last full-length, it wouldn’t be wrong to quantify Booka Shade as headphone trippers. […]
“Oh, Samuel Stewart, you are so grounded. No allowance, and no ‘Guitar Hero’ privileges for a week!” “Awww, mom …” OK, so I imagined that exchange after seeing the light-hearted DIY video for “How Long Will It Take,” a cover of the 1969 reggae hit by Pat Kelly that later was famously covered by Jeff […]
L.A. trio Pollyn’s languid, atmospheric electropop sounds as if it were made on slow simmer – not even the disco beats on its debut album “This Little Night” seem to faze singer Genevieve Artadi, whose sultry vocals recall the David Arnold-composed “James Bond” soundtracks. The soundscapes laid down by guitarist Anthony Cava and beats/effects guy […]
[Birthday shout-out today to Colbie Caillat, all of 25. Enjoy your weekend, everybody.] Top 6 things asterisked on my concert calendar this weekend: ‣ Flight of the Conchords swoop into the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday to tickle your funny and musical bones. ‣ Also Sunday, Miike Snow plays the first of 2,721 sold-shows in and […]
Hot Hot Heat, whose new album “Future Breeds” is coming out June 8 (on Dangerbird Records), is returning to its roots as the indie-rock band that frontman Steve Bays now wishes it would have been all along. “Future Breeds” is more like HHH’s breakout album “Make Up the Breakdown” than the two-major label albums that […]
Teenage wunderkinds Moses Campbell – it’s a six-piece band, not some grizzled folk singer that the name might conjure up – seem to have bottled up the exuberance of youth and the dreariness of aging on one calamitous album. “Who Are You? Who Is Anyone?” (just out on the Smell’s olFactory Records) embraces the present […]
