[Raising a glass to Siouxsie Sioux on her birthday …] Top 5 musical entanglements this evening: ‣ Berlin techno/house duo Booka Shade visit the Fonda Theatre behind their recently released fifth album, “More!” (which includes the single “Bad Love,” featuring vocalist Chelonis R. Jones). ‣ Onetime indie darlings Voxtrot say goodbye to L.A. – their […]
Photos and review by Laurie Scavo Long-running indie outfit Clem Snide opened their show at Spaceland on Saturday night with “Walmart Parking Lot,” the opening track from the new album “The Meat of Life” – seemingly out of nowhere, frontman Eef Barzelay burst into the first haunting verse in characteristic quaver, “Punched in the heart, […]
International Tennis Champions slipped me a cassette of their music after I happened upon their very first show last fall, which reminded me that my car has a cassette player, which reminded me of bygone days when I delivered newspapers out of my car in the wee hours and wore out tape after tape, which […]
Top 5 places to get an earful tonight in our little town: ‣ Midweek electro dance party? Sure, why not. Toronto’s Dragonette headlines the Echo, frontwoman Martina Sorbara still playing disco queen after last fall’s release of “Fixin’ to Thrill.” Download: “Pick Up the Phone (Disko Dali Remix)” ‣ Baths continues its residency at Low […]
For a newbie, the Silverlake Jubilee looked pretty grown-up this past weekend. The inaugural two-day music and arts festival, a benefit for the Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance, went off with barely a hitch Saturday and Sunday, drawing robust crowds who came to take in an excellent lineup of mostly local indie-rock bands, sample […]
Join me at 11 on Indie1031.com for the Buzz Bands LA show – I’ve got plenty of new flavors from in and around Los Angeles, some stuff by bands doing upcoming residencies and my usual non sequitur chatter. After the jump, the playlist:
[Happy birthday, Paul Weller. What I wouldn’t give for a little Jam this morning:] Top 5 ways to make merry musically in Los Angeles tonight: ‣ Watch enchanting Australian brother-and-sister folkies Angus & Julia Stone – their new album “Down the Way” is awfully sweet – on the first of their two sold-out nights at […]
Matt Berninger has always taken a more professorial approach to his role as ascendant poet laureate of rock noir. Suit-coated and intense, he lets the gravitas of his baritone – rising as if imperiled by claustrophobia above the National’s clattering orchestrations – speak to the tragic foibles and life-changing moments in his song’s characters. ||| […]
It was evident from the preponderance of fans wearing horizontal stripes that there were a lot of Shout Out Louds lifers at the El Rey Theatre on Thursday night for the first of two sold-out shows by the Swedish quintet. Such brightly colored shirts were standard uniform for the band, and then their fans, in […]
Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield’s solo album “Fly Yellow Moon” wavers between the romantic musings of a guy who’s rethinking his place in universe and the slightly unhinged psych-pop of a writer who can’t wait to get to the next hook. Good stuff, so good that you arch your eyebrows at the press release saying it […]
