This is either a publicity stunt or a stroke of genius, but we’ll bite: Robotanists, the L.A. quartet doing this month’s residency at the Silverlake Lounge, have covered Radiohead’s “King of Limbs” and released it digitally. Well, that was quick. Robotanists’ take on the latest from Thom Yorke and gang simplifies the arrangements – no […]
[Writer Charlie Amter – whose Europopped blog is one-stop shopping for whatever’s moving bodies across the pond – expands our dance music horizons: ] By Charlie Amter America is often late to the game when it comes to dance music, but better late than never. DJs in L.A. only started dropping Martin Solveig’s positive and […]
Best stuff from tonight’s embarrassment of show riches: ‣ The legendary Gang of Four wind up a 13-date U.S. tour tonight at the Music Box behind their new album “C O N T E N T.” Opening are energetic Canadian pop-rockers Hollerado – their one-take video for “Americanarama,” above, has gotten them a bunch of […]
[Playing a little weekend catch-up …] For a band that hasn’t yet released a full-length album, Red Cortez has a pretty formidable catalog of songs. That much is evident in the sets the L.A. quartet has played the first to weeks of their Satellite residency, and in the free, four-song EPs Harley Prechtel-Cortez (pictured) and […]
Tonight’s show picks if you weren’t among the 100 folks who got into Surfer Blood’s house party: ‣ No new music in 10 years, but nerdy Alabama surf-rockers Man or Astro-man? have reunited and are touring – tonight they visit the Echo. ‣ Ted Leo’s solo show at the Center for the Arts in Eagle […]
Top choices for what looks to be a wet Saturday night: ‣ Tonight’s show at the Satellite could be the last we hear from Admiral Radley for a while. The quartet – the union of Jason Lytle (pictured during last year’s Also I Like to Rock performance at the Hammer Museum) and Aaron Burtch from […]
It’s that time of the week again: Join me on MoheakRadio from 3 to 5 p.m. Pacific time for the Buzz Bands LA show. I’ll be playing a lot of recent arrivals, from L.A. bands and others, as well as previewing Tuesday’s show at the Satellite. (Hope that’s on your calendar.) Who knows, I might […]
San Diego fuzz merchants Tape Deck Mountain may get lumped into the lo-fi surf rock genre, but messages behind the shoegaze duo’s songs are anything but sunny. The title of their “Secret Serf” EP is a cheeky nod to the beach trend in SoCal’s indie rock scene; Travis Trevisan, though, wrestles with issues such as […]
Debate Team makes the kind of hook-filled rock that mobilizes power-pop armies, and they’d probably do more of it if it weren’t for their day jobs. The L.A.-based quintet counts among it members guitarist Drew Brown of OneRepublic, bassist Bob Morris of the Hush Sound and drummer Dan Konopka of OK Go, who, with singer […]
Thankfully, NME is here to explain the dance moves.
