Echo Park Rising started off in a big way, and by big we mean massive. Either we need to give a big thumbs up to the festival’s marketing team, or people were eager to devour a free Friday night of music. Perhaps it was also the fact that the fourth annual neighborhood festival started a […]
Raw Geronimo’s debut album “Dream Fever” sounds like the sum of many dreams, only some of them feverish. The band surfaced two years ago as the vehicle for the songwriting of multi-instrumentalist and sonic adventurer Laena Geronimo, whose exploits in myriad L.A. bands of both the pop and experimental variety inform the cerebral and visceral […]
Saturday night is most definitely all right: ‣ Legendary pop singer Tom Jones headlines the Troubadour behind his new album “Spirit in the Room.” ‣ Marina and the Diamonds [that’s Marina, pictured] and Charli XCX team up for a big show at the Shrine Auditorium – they teamed up in the studio, too, before the […]
Hey, it’s Friday: ‣ Garage rockers King Tuff bring the fun stuff to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. Get your 3D glasses on to check out their video for “Keep On Movin’.” ‣ Devotchka performs with a chamber orchestra at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever. The Denver gypsy folk band just […]
When it comes to suspending your brain somewhere between stoner oblivion and psychedelic bliss, JUJU has mojo. The trance-y rock is the new venture of singer-guitarist Phil Pirrone (Jeffertiti’s Nile, A Static Lullaby, Casket Salesman) and Incan Abraham drummer Andrew Clinco. Over the drummer’s thunderous rhythms, Pirrone loops guitar and bass, building an almost primordial […]
Happy Friday, we’re full up with good shows: ‣ With their sophomore album “Here” due at the end of the month, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros take on the Greek Theatre. Early arrival recommended for opener Aaron Embry. ‣ Lindsey Buckingham does a one-man show at the Wiltern, performing songs from his recent solo […]
So many nice shows tonight, and we’ll selfishly start with our own: ‣ It’s a jam-packed night for Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter excursion at Lot 1 Cafe, headed up by singer-songwriter Ethan Gold (that’s the video for “Why Don’t You Sleep?,” off last year’s album “Songs from a Toxic Apartment”). Boys School kicks off […]
Brass Tax is the musical (ad)venture of Jada Wagensomer, who also plays in Dante Vs Zombies and Jail Weddings. For her song “Man With the Tooth,” she enlisted filmmaker Burke Roberts to make a video – and it’s pointed and startling and a little bit deranged. Apparently it was too risqué for MTV. Buddyhead premiered […]
Dante Vs Zombies have inspired a graveyard full of descriptors in their delirious three-year lifespan – “spaghetti Western jungle music” and “ghetto pop” among them. “Bongload of fun” came to mind when the L.A. collective’s first single “Yes, I”m Stalking You” hit a couple years back, and it still applies to DVZ’s first full-length “BUH,” […]
Your jam-packed Thursday itinerary: ‣ Its new album “Blues Funeral” just out, the Mark Lanegan Band [praises sung earlier this week] headlines the Echoplex. ‣ Brooklyn electro-pop outfit Class Actress – the brainchild of producers Mark Richardson and Scott Rosenthal and singer Elizabeth Harper, headline the Echo behind their recent release “Rapprocher.” That’s Harper and […]
