What a crazy, mixed-up week it’s been. Today’s Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio will be programmed accordingly, if you please. I’ll have new music from Incan Abraham, Holloys, Emperor X, the New Division, Gothic Tropic, Sea of Cortez and Fonda, along with some jams from Jonathan Wilson, Hanni El Khatib and Taylor Locke. […]
Jonathan Wilson titled his new album “Gentle Spirit,” but you suspect it’s only because “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” was already taken. Wilson, the North Carolina-bred singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and keeper of the Laurel Canyon flame, has birthed a 78-minute opus that takes deep, long breaths, its lush orchestration and serpentine arrangements rewarding patient […]
Like Fool’s Gold and Vampire Weekend, the new L.A. trio Gothic Tropic finds inspiration in world beats and exuberant guitars. The brainchild of Cecilia Della Peruti, who for the past two years has played with Rumspringa, Gothic Tropic takes a playful, lo-fi approach to the psych-pop on its four-song “Awesome Problems” EP, with guitar lines […]
Friday fun: ‣ Tinariwen visits the El Rey Theatre as part of the Ooh LA L.A. Festival, abetted by TV on the Radio. The Malian band recorded their new album “Tassili” (which came out in August) in the Algerian desert with contributions from TVOTR’s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone (as well as Nels Cline and […]
[Covers that have recently come across our radar…] Tokyo Police Club, “Kim & Jessie” ft. Jamie Jackson (of Hot As Sun) (M83 cover) – Tokyo Police Club recently partnered up with Polaroid for a project titled “10 Songs, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 years” where they cover a single from the last 10 years in […]
The Polyamorous Affair’s sultry, subversive electro was made for dark places. And the Berlin-based duo of Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie, who not so long ago called L.A. home, go there in the video for “Fantasy,” which transfers the notion of appetite to someplace a little bit grisly. The single comes from 2010’s synth-laden “Strange […]
SecondTuesday – Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe – takes a turn for the eclectic in October. On the agenda: sibling rivalry, a birthday celebration, a beer crawl and plenty of good tunes for a good cause. Headlining on Oct. 11 will be Joey and Andy Siara of the Henry Clay […]
Hot As Sun’s blissed-out music exists only in small quantities so far – their four-song EP released last November – but the electro-popgazers anchored by Jamie Jackson and Deborah Stoll have more songs in the works. And their recent trip to New York to perform amid glitter and go-go dancers at artist Peter Tunney’s gallery […]
Some may know Marchelle Bradanini as the “Pony” half of international DJ duo Pony vs. Tiger (with the other half being Natasha “Tiger” Noramly), who spins everything from Hot Chip to Os Mutantes to Orange Juice. However, Bradanini’s solo moniker Pony Boy zooms in on a sound that she considers “junkyard country music.” With smokey […]
Quite a Thursday night ahead: ‣ A.A. Bondy headlines the Bootleg Theater behind his new album “Believers.” [See why we believed.] Nik Freitas, whose new album “Saturday Night Underwater” came out this summer, opens. ‣ Gillian Welch (pictured) headlines the Music Box behind the new album she made with Dave Rawlings, “The Harrow & the […]
