Stream: Greatest Hits … This Week (Vol. 21)
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Music from Death Valley Girls, T.O.L.D., Torches, Local Natives, Swerve, Blank Blue, Hanni El Khatib, Brightener, Pollyn and more on Buzz Bands LA’s mixtape.
Photos: Melody’s Echo Chamber and Blank Blue at the Roxy
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In French or in English, Melody’s Echo Chamber’s Coachella add-on show at the Roxy on Saturday night was a magic kiss for psych-pop fans.
Premiere: Blank Blue, ‘Grey’
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Blank Blue is back after a five-year hiatus. For your listening and head-nodding pleasure, here’s the first track from their forthcoming EP, “Invisible Threads.”
Tonight in L.A.: Dirty Projectors, U-N-I, Army Navy
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[Folks, today is 07/08/09, and maybe a numerologist could explain it to me, but I remember have a distinctly crappy 06/07/08 and 05/06/07. So I might not get out of bed today, even to wish Beck a happy 39th birthday.] The acclaimed Brooklyn avant-pop group Dirty Projectors hit town tonight behind their new release “Bitte […]
Videos: Busdriver, War Tapes
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[New videos from L.A. artists …] LA Weekly cover guy Busdriver will have to dumb it down a few dozen IQ points if he ever wants to be a hip-hop star, but thankfully we have guys like him to skip stones across the mainstream. The veteran underground rapper shows no signs of being more accessible […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Decemberists, Youth Group
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Some great reasons to get out of the house tonight: The big shows have the Decemberists (supported by very talented Oklahomans Other Lives) at the Palladium, and a lot of people my age heading to see the brother acts – the Allmans and the Doobies – at the Greek Theatre. … Ex-rapper Hesta Prynn (Northern […]
Tonight in L.A.: Thao, Oliver Future, Ceci Bastida
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[Serving up birthday greetings today to Master P. Now for a busy night on the club circuit …] She won me as a fan as South by Southwest, and now Thao Nguyen – that’s Thao With the Get Down Stay Down to the uninitiated – hits the Hotel Cafe for a big show with Samantha […]
This weekend in L.A.: Leonard Cohen, Travis
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[Birthday cheers go out to Art Alexakis (on Sunday) and to brother of Buzz Bands, Aaron (today). Have some fun, guys …] Tonight: It’s another busy Friday for shows big (Leonard Cohen, first of two nights at the Nokia Theatre) and small (Seasons celebrating the release of its “Spring” EP at the Echo, along with […]
Tonight in L.A.: Blank Blue, Spirit Animal, more
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[Joel and Benji Madden celebrate their birthday today, on what apparently is a popular day to be born, judging from the number of reminders on my pesky my social networks. Can we just automate the huzzahs?] It’s not his birthday until Saturday, but tonight’s installment of Low End Theory at the Airliner is being called […]
Tonight in L.A.: Orenda Fink, the Newno2, Sweethead
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[It was 45 years ago today … that the Beatles played their first American concert, in Washington D.C.] Orenda Fink [pictured] was just in town in late November, for a one-off reunion show with Maria Taylor as Azure Ray. Now she’s back (playing Bordello, with Whispertown 2000 and others) and has some new material in […]
