New York-born Jenny O has been a familiar face on the L.A. scene for a while, having played aside enough local artists to fill a week’s worth of bills in Silver Lake. Although there’s an unreleased album she recorded last year, Jenny O is finally unveiling her first batch of solo material, the self-produced “Home” […]
[From your humble blogger: The crush of music I receive each day, digitally and physically, is overwhelming. In the past I’ve pretty much only posted tracks for which I have time to write a full capsule. Now, in the interests of simply sharing more music, I’m going to start “quick posts” of tracks with brief […]
You won’t find the slightest trace of indie tricks – no fuzzy reverb, glitchy beats or laptop wizardry – on “I Want Us to Be Remembered,” the first EP from Los Angeles quartet A House for Lions. “That’s not who we are,” singer-songwriter Daniel Norman says. “It would come off as false.” Instead, Norman’s partnership […]
Three sold-out deals tonight: ‣ Grinderman at the Music Box. That’s the video for “Heathen Child,” above, and if that’s unsettling there was a great piece in the Guardian recently that will soothe your troubled sensibilities. ‣ Faith No More, the first of two nights at the Palladium, as its reunion tour nears the end. […]
L.A. singer-songwriter Nik Freitas has probably had very few moments to himself since he released his fourth album, “Sun Down,” in 2008 for Conor Oberst’s Team Love imprint. He’s toured as part of Oberst’s Mystic Valley Band, and most recently he’s joined the touring juggernaut of the Danger Mouse/James Mercer project Broken Bells. “Recorded on […]
Weezer fans got a couple of shows for the ages over the weekend. At the Gibson Amphitheatre, the quartet triumphantly revisited “The Blue Album” on Friday and “Pinkerton” on Saturday, with each night featuring an opening 10-song set of favorites. I didn’t get one of he high-fives Rivers Cuomo dished out on his frantic forays […]
The first EP from Riverside-based Summer Twins is sibling revelry indeed. Sisters Chelsea and Justine Brown make scratchy/sparkly cherub pop that’s sweet and guileless, and if the vocals on “The Good Things” (released in August) are still a work in progress, well, we could name-check a lot indie songstresses who started this way. Bassist Danny […]
[Happy Monday. For all you Daft Punk fans, Jason Bentley will be debuting tracks from the “Tron: Legacy” soundtrack at 10 this morning on your friendly neighborhood public radio station …] Top 2 audio/visual spectacles this evening: ‣ Roger Waters performs “The Wall” live at Staples Center. ‣ Sonic experimentalists the Books, joined by Temporary […]
Quinn Marston is an enigmatic 20-year-old singer-songwriter from New York City. She has a voice that ranges from shy slur to sexy shout, recalling both Karen O. and ’50s troubadour Connie Converse, as well as “Guyville”-era Liz Phair. Her lyrics are witty and wise beyond their years, set to grungy melodies that encapsulate a youthful […]
I’m severely in arrears in posting about this, but I’d like to thank everybody who turned out for last Saturday’s “A Night With Buzz Bands LA” at Spaceland. In only their second live show, headliner White Sea, the solo project of M83 singer-keyboardist Morgan Kibby, turned in a sparkling set of disco-tinged dreampop – imagine […]
