The Whigs satiated plenty of rockist appetites when the Athens, Ga., trio released their third album “In the Dark” early last year. If they haven’t shown up on the radar lately, it’s because they’ve been busy promoting and touring behind the European release of the album. So if you’ll pardon the interruption, here’s some midday […]
Back in November, L.A. quartet Hands teased us with the single “Brave Motion,” and now the Philadelphia ex-pats have sent along another song off their forthcoming EP. The music made by Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff is two-sided tropical pop – face up, you get frisky beats and skittering guitar lines; […]
Top show options on a busy Monday: ‣ Wanda Jackson, backed by Jack White and the Third Man House Band, plays a second night at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ On the eve of the release of their third album, “Mine Is Yours,” Cold War Kids play the Bootleg Theater. ‣ White Lies, their new […]
The most startling revelation about Thursday night’s show at the Autry Museum was how apparently few of the hip kids know where the Autry Museum is. For the record, the house that “The Singing Cowboy” built is right across the parking lot from the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. And although none of the bands […]
The nature of “Let England Shake,” the new album from PJ Harvey due Feb. 15, is slowly taking shape via the release of two of the 12 videos that will accompany each song on the album. They are the work of Seamus Murphy, a photographer who stitched together images and video from a 5,000-mile trip […]
Join me on MoheakRadio for the Buzz Bands LA show, today and every Friday at 3 p.m. It’s random selection day, and I’ll have the playlist on this post as the show progresses. (New development: My show will be rebroadcast every Sunday at 8 p.m.) After the jump, what’s in your ears:
When we last checked in with L.A. quartet Robotanists, Sarah Ellquist, Daniel de Blanke, Keith Boyarsky and Preston Scott Phillips were dazzling us with a covers EP. They have not been idle. Their second full-length, “Plans in Progress” – the foursome’s first new material since 2008’s “Close Down the Woods” – comes out Feb. 25. […]
There might be a long story to be written that involves lawyers, managers, musicians and label reps spitting venom at each other, but the bottom line is this: Hellogoodbye is back, four-plus years after its debut album “Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!” was released. When they emerged in the middle of last decade, the Huntington Beach […]
[Birthday greetings today to Cat Power … Now on to the weekend:] Five very different shows that pique my interest: ‣ Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson, the 73-year-old Queen of Rockabilly whose new album “The Party Ain’t Over” (out next week) was produced by Jack White, starts a two-night stand Sunday night […]
Unless you’ve heard his songs in the background of “Grey’s Anatomy” or “One Tree Hill,” chances are you’re not yet familiar with James Vincent McMorrow. The honey-voiced singer-songwriter has been gaining acclaim in his native Ireland since releasing his debut full-length, “Early in the Morning” in Europe this past summer. After releasing a teaser EP […]
