Tonight’s fare our for fair city: ‣ The monthly Rumble show hits the Echo tonight, with a couple of rising L.A. bands, White Arrows and Milo Greene, joined by Seattle duo My Goodness. It’s free with an RSVP. [The latest on White Arrows here; introducing Milo Greene here.] ‣ Australian duo An Horse – a […]
Australian two-piece An Horse blasted its way onto our Top 20 list in 2009 with “Rearrange Beds,” a collection of rockers that were part punk, part pop and all exposed nerves. Kate Cooper and Damon Cox are back with “Walls,” just out on Mom & Pop Records, showing no signs of dialing down the volume […]
[Happy birthday, Paul Weller. What I wouldn’t give for a little Jam this morning:] Top 5 ways to make merry musically in Los Angeles tonight: ‣ Watch enchanting Australian brother-and-sister folkies Angus & Julia Stone – their new album “Down the Way” is awfully sweet – on the first of their two sold-out nights at […]
One of my happier accidents at SXSW in March was running across a set by Australian duo An Horse, who’d instantly won me over the spring before with their unvarnished pop and unblinking honesty, both of which were unabashedly displayed on their 2009 debut “Rearrange Beds.” They played some new songs in Austin, but for […]
I have only to glance at Stereogum’s post on the most anticipated albums of 2010 to be assured that next year will be better than 2009, when my most-visited album was the Stone Roses’ reissue. [Heartfelt thanks again to the person who gifted me that; you know who you are.] That said, ’09 had some […]
The music of Australian duo An Horse is made of the simplest ingredients: guitar, drums, vocals and honesty. None of the first three is going make any jaws drop – drummer Damon Cox is suitably thrashy and energetic, while his Brisbane cohort Kate Cooper sings plaintively, even flatly, over her scratchy chord progressions. So raw […]
[Happy birthday to Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers, and here are some shows you might want to drive by …] I dare you to see An Horse [pictured] and not be completely won over. The Aussie duo is at the Echoplex with Nova Scotia’s Wintersleep. … Then again, you could be won over by […]
I thought the album “Rearrange Beds” by Australian duo An Horse was out in February, but it turns out March 17 is the physical release date. Whichever, the music of Damon Cox and Kate Cooper is crackling-good indie pop. Their North American tour starts this week at Noise Pop in Francisco, but skips L.A., for […]
Fol Chen, “Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made” (today, Asthmatic Kitty) – As with his previous project Bedroom Walls and its self-christened genre appellation “romanticore,” Adam Goldman remains just as much about creating mythos as music. Oh, he’s still twee as heck, and every bit the art-schooler, only cleverer now. He goes by Samuel […]
There was a smattering of “Club Rockville” signs around the Echoplex last night, left over from the daytime filming of the forthcoming Internet series “Rockville, CA.” Josh Schwartz’s fictional look at the Echo Park music scene promises to be intriguing, at the very least, but it ain’t the real thing, baby. And last night would […]
