Have a good weekend? Extend it by one hour – join me at midnight for the L.A. Buzz Bands show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). Tonight I’m premiering new music by White Arrows, Butch Walker & the Black Widows and Just An Animal (more on them later), and mixing in some indie-, power- […]
We’re taking a badly needed day off – until tonight’s show on KCSN. For info about tonight’s Yuck, Bear Hands and Les Blanks shows (and more) visit You Set the Scene.
[Happy Saturday, and happy birthday Kate Bush. The Yuck video for “Shook Down,” below, is NSFW, so you’ve been warned, but it’s so well done it should be shared …] Your Saturday fare: ‣ L.A. Rising roars away a the L.A. Coliseum with a lineup of Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Ms. Lauryn […]
Join me on Moheak Radio at 3 p.m. Pacific time for a special installment of the Buzz Bands LA show. Members of Mariachi El Bronx will join me to talk about their new album – out next week – and their upcoming activities, which include an in-store at Amoeba on Tuesday, album-release shows on Tuesday […]
Mariachi .. really. When the Bronx – one of the most deliciously uncompromising hardcore punk bands to emerge in the last decade – first donned their charro suits and morphed into Mariachi El Bronx, it felt like they were kidding. They weren’t, embarking on a foray into south-of-the-border flavors that turned out to be both […]
You’d think the hills of Silver Lake and Echo Park were Appalachia judging from the amount of big-hearted folk music coming from the scene. The tunes of Count Fleet are exemplary – earnest and winsome, they feel like a hedge against high-tech city life, illusory social media friendships and button-pushing marketing campaigns. The duo of […]
Roaring into the weekend: ‣ Thurston Moore and Kurt Vile do their second sold-out night at the Troubadour. ‣ Nashville indie-blues quartet the Features (pictured) – their new album “Wilderness” cementing a place in our playlists – headline the Satellite, with Oh Darling opening. ‣ Speaking of darlings, Those Darlins play the Echo, with White […]
When they began, Michael Garner, Dan Chang and Matthew Frankel – the three college buddies who make up Lady Danville – pretty much couldn’t “play” anything. Except their weapons of choice, of course, their voices. And those are three pristine instruments that, wielded individually or as one, have quickly earned the Los Angeles trio comparisons […]
There are a trunk full of layers in Ladytron’s video for “White Elephant,” the first single off the U.K. quartet’s suprisingly dreamy fifth album “Gravity the Seducer.” What’s the burden here, and whose burden is it? Where we can get the number of their costume designer? And how did we not get an invite to […]
[The weekend is just around the corner. Prepare yourselves with some new remixes below…] M83, “Midnight City (Christian Strobe Remix)” – The new single from Anthony Gonzalez has been getting M83 fans in a tizzy with anticipation for the upcoming album, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” The original track boasts the French artist’s fine skills of […]
