Your fabulous Friday fare … ‣ Eastern Conference Champions’ new album “Speak-Ahh,” its first full-length of new material in four years, is due out on Tuesday, and the L.A. trio celebrates with a show tonight at the Echo with Hands and Hot As Sun supporting. ‣ The Railroad Revival Tour – which features three bands […]
Milo Greene was actually born several years back at UC Irvine, where Robbie Arnett, Andrew Heringer and Marlana Sheetz were students. “He was a fictional character who used to send out promotional e-mails on our behalf,” Arnett says with a laugh. Later, when a new musical project gelled between the trio, along with Curtis Marrero […]
Ever since Dawes planted the seed with its album “North Hills” in 2009, the music of the L.A. quartet has flowered. The band was picked up by ATO; the foursome became in demand for its harmony-laden Americana; and, even during frontman Taylor Goldsmith’s detour to work with Matt Vasquez and John McCauley on Middle Brother, […]
Tonight’s touts: ‣ We’ll just mention the three shows from the Legends Dept. tonight all at once – Prince plays the Forum; Paul Simon performs the Pantages Theatre; and Emmylou Harris holds forth at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Phildelphia’s Kurt Vile and the Violators play the Echo behind their very good new album “Smoke […]
Gerard Smith, the bass player for indie-rock standouts TV on the Radio, has died of lung cancer. He was 36. The band, which just released its new album “Nine Types of Light,” had revealed Smith’s diagnosis in March. A statement on the band’s website today said: “We are very sad to announce the death of […]
There seems to be some footage from Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ video series in the clip for Alexander’s “A Million Years” – what is it about the desert, anyway? – but that’s not to detract from the song, or Zeros frontman Alex Ebert’s solo effort. Alexander’s DIY album is a loose and engaging […]
Shoegazer music has shifted in and out of fashion for better than two decades now, with the style’s true believers caring not a whit that Average Joe couldn’t sort My Bloody Valentine from a Place to Bury Strangers. Plenty of the bands who carry on so do with aplomb, including the contrarily named New York […]
You can almost smell the perfume and sweat from the dancefloor in the electro-pop of L.A. quartet Tic Tic Boom, whose swirling synths and disco sheen recall the days of Club MTV more than the cut-and-paste indie electronica that followed. The brainchild of singer-keyboardist Leilani Francisco and guitarist-vocalist Mike DeLay (who expand to a four-piece […]
A couple of Coachella standouts and a swarm of nice local shows on tonight’s slate: ‣ Fresh off a buzz-making performance at Coachella, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding had a big day in L.A.: She does a quick bit at the Grove at 6 p.m. as part of the Nike-sponsored She Runs LA, then runs off […]
For three albums – two if you exclude a European release, four if you include last fall’s DIY “Last Day of Summer” (still available free here) – the work of Austin quartet White Denim has been unapologetically all over the spectrum. They’re great for short attention spans live shows that never bore and those who […]
