[Birthday greetings go out today to Paul Oakenfold …] Top 4 Monday night hangs: ‣ Physical Forms – a new five-piece featuring the Mae Shi’s Jeff Byron and Marcus Savino, Busdriver, Kevin Lenhart (Division Day) and Marty Sataman (Silver Daggers) – debut at Pehrspace. Got the lowdown from Byron himself. ‣ Strong finish to this […]
The Sunset Strip Music Festival busted loose Thursday with a tribute to Slash and rocks in earnest tonight with show in five of the neighborhood clubs. Earlier I tabbed six bands I’ll be trying to see in the clubs on Saturday, but in the interests of introducing another young band, I give you Delta Rose, […]
It’d be a compliment to call the Fling derivative, and it’d have nothing to do with the Long Beach band’s ’60s-flavored folk rock. The band – brothers Dustin and Graham Lovelis, along with Justin Ivey and Justin Roeland – derives its name from an early-’80s SoCal band called the Fling. It was founded by the […]
[Sunday would have marked Michael Jackson’s 52nd birthday. Observe accordingly.] Top 5 stops on my personal tour this weekend, if there were a personal tour: ‣ I’m not sure there will be any Mexican wrestlers involved, but the Smashing Pumpkins headline Saturday’s street portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, which features the likes of […]
The Little Ones have been laying low, dealing with what singer-guitarist Ed Reyes refers to as “trials and tribulations.” But although recently separated from their second label, Chop Shop (which released their debut “Morning Tide” in 2008), the L.A. quintet continues continues to churn out its sunny pop. They are announcing the first installment of […]
Anybody feeling sentimental for the big, hooky guitars we loved so much in the ’90s should look out for “Sugar,” the new album (out this week) from Dead Confederate. After touring both nationally and overseas with Dinosaur Jr., the Athens, Ga.-based quintet hooked up with producer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, the Hold Steady) […]
Regrets & Brunettes poured some pretty nifty indie rock into our ears with 2009’s “At Night You Love Me,” but now comes word from frontman Richard Bivens that the quartet has parted ways amicably. This week, however, they’re releasing one final single, posthumously and free. It’s a muscular, soulful number, reminiscent of Spoon, and ordinarily […]
By Liam Gowing What do you get when you combine a funk-folk journeyman and an indie rock singer-songwriter with the son of a rock music icon? A hell of a lot of secrecy, apparently. At least that was the case Tuesday night when KCRW music director Jason Bentley welcomed a star-studded audience to The Village […]
The easy way to find Buzz Bands tonight: ‣ Radars to the Sky celebrate the release of their new album “Supra/Infra” at Spaceland, supported by Death to Anders and Smokers in Love – and, playing the late set, the Henry Clay People. I had a sneak peek of the album last week. [And on a […]
File under first (and strong) impressions: That small group of people you might have seen pinching themselves on Tuesday night in Silver Lake were the invitees to an intimate listening party for Neil Young’s new album, “Le Noise” (due Sept. 28). The party was at the lakeview manse of Daniel Lanois, and both the host […]
