Stream: Bikos, ‘Hear Theory’ and ‘Who Izz Is’
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Bikos’ weird, challenging, playful and did-we-mention-weird fourth album came out last week. It’s titled “Herein: Time’s Own Wyoming” … so en garde, avant garde.
This Week’s Shows: Aug. 20-26
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Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Pop Noir, Erasure, Jens Lekman, X, Julia Holter, Prism Tats, AJJ, Queen Latifa, Regina Spektor, Mac DeMarco, Kishi Bashi, Alec Benjamin, the Delirians, Emerson Star, Joey Dosik, Mura Masa, J. Cole, T.I., No Parents, Thievery Corporation, Lady Antebellum, Ariana Grande, Sam Smith, Rodriguez, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Ra Ra Riot, Yelawolf, Happy Sundays Festival
Tonight in L.A.: Tom Petty, the Olms, Grizfolk, Lenka/Holly Conlan, KING, Summer Twins, KG Bird, Hindu Pirates, Queen Caveat
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Happy Monday: ‣ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers play six shows in L.A. this week and they kick it all off at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Pete Yorn and J.D. King are the Olms and they headline the Troubadour in support of a debut album together. We are the West open. That’s the Olms’ video for […]
Tonight in L.A.: Chief, Bikos, Black Party Politics
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A light schedule for Boxing Day: ‣ Chief plays a free show at Harvard & Stone. ‣ That Noise plays tonight’s installment of Club Noscow at Boardner’s joined by Black Party Politics and Socadia. That Noise’s video for “Love Remains,” came out in September. ‣ And Bikos throws a party at Lo1 Cafe, supported by […]
Tonight in L.A.: Haroula Rose, Com Truise, Mind the Gap, Tennis System, Lana Del Rey, more
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Tips for your Tuesday: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter series continues at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park, topped by Chicago-bred, L.A.-based songstress Haroula Rose (pictured), freshly returned from Athens, Ga., where she was working on recording her next album. Rose figures to have some new songs, and she’ll be joined by Geronimo Getty, […]
Tonight in L.A.: Bikos, Olin & the Moon, Touché
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Tuesdays shouldn’t be this much fun: ‣ L.A. sextet Bikos, who busted out last year with their exuberant album of spiky art-punk “Make Your Sound Sound,” play the Bootleg Bar as part of a great local bill that includes Lovers Drugs and Son Ark. [Get Bikos’ “You Want It” right here. And, for today only, […]
Tonight in L.A.: Nick Waterhouse, Allen Stone, Priscilla Ahn, Lord Huron, Peter Case, Warpaint, Hammell on Trial, Girl in a Coma, Saint Motel
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Fantastic Friday things: ‣ Old-school R&B adventurer Nick Waterhouse, at work on a debut album coming out in the spring, brings his edgy, vintage sounds to the Bootleg Theater. [Refresher: See the video for “I Can Only Give You Everything.”] The Allah Las and Anna Egge support. ‣ At the Echo, it’s soul phenom Allen […]
Tonight in L.A.: Robotanists/Shadow Shadow Shade, Soft Metals, Sam Phillips/Van Dyke Parks, Sunken Ships/Wires in the Walls, Bikos
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Your Sunday variety: ‣ Robotanists and Shadow Shadow Shade headline a worthy lineup at the Airliner including acts such as Death to Anders, Two Guns, and more to kick off a new weekly series called Traffic Ctrl. This just in (3:30 p.m.): Robotanists, Shadow Shadow Shade and Two Guns will not be performing. A note […]
Tonight in L.A.: Electric Flower, Bikos, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Cinderella Motel
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Thursday touts [updated at 2 p.m.]: ‣ Electric Flower, the new duo that pairs guitarist Imaad Wasif with Secret Machines drummer Josh Garza, makes its live debut at Harvard & Stone. Their debut EP is just out on Narnack Records. [Check out “Four16” here.] ‣ Dance-pop en francais is on the menu when Yelle kick […]
Ears Wide Open: Bikos
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Bikos sounds like the most fun you can have without getting sponsored at happy hour, or without selling your soul to the synth devil. The Los Angeles art-punks new album “Make Your Sound Sound” binges on the pummeling rhythms and ecstatic licks of the B-52’s, Talking Heads and other bands who made the clamorous glamorous. […]
