L.A. folk-pop ensemble Eagle Winged Palace is finishing up work on its debut album “Where We’re Coming From,” and the first taste of the new music is available on their label’s fall sampler. “Timber” is constructed of acoustic guitar and fragile, haunting harmonies. The rest of the Park the Van Records sampler includes tracks from […]
Dr. Dog has moved on – the Philadelphia popsters announced yesterday that they’d signed with Anti- Records – but Park the Van Records still has a roster full of eclectic distinction, and a couple newbies are hitting the L.A. area in the next few days. Dr. Dog-endorsed Floating Action [left photo], the nom tune of […]
[Let’s start Thursday by wishing Kate Bush a happy birthday …] And let’s continue it with with a song off the Sounds’ new album, “Crossing the Rubicon”: ||| Download: “Dorchester Hotel” The Swedish quintet’s Blondie-indebted rock has cast quite a spell on SoCal audiences the past couple of years. Their new album, recorded in L.A., […]
Kazoos, face-painting, gorgeous vocal harmonies, the sweet lilt of country music and a handful of bands with really long names – the album-release party for Leslie & the Badgers’ “Roomful of Smoke” on Tuesday at Spaceland had a little bit of everything. The evening featured harmony-laden opening sets from Eagle Winged Palace and the Chapin […]
That rock cliché about smoky vocals took on a whole new meaning when Leslie Stevens and her band were recording their new album. It was 2008, and “the wildfires were raging,” Stevens says. “You could see on the hills, there were chunks of ash in the air, and you could smell it in the room.” […]
[A quick happy 70th birthday to Judy Collins, and a happy May Day to you. Other responsibilities are going to force me to be very brief with this update – see Duke for a bigger rundown.] Tonight: If I’m still standing by this evening, it will be Wolfmother and the Ruby Sons at First Fridays […]
Somebody has deep pockets. The teenage L.A. rock band Acidic won an eBay auction to play a main-stage slot at Sunday’s second day of the Bamboozle Left Festival at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – with a bid of more than $13,000. The money benefits the One Love for Chi Foundation, the charity that is helping Deftones […]
It’s been too long since I posted a podcast, so this is Step 1 in catching up. This fourth edition of the Buzzsicle features songs from 17 L.A. artists whose names I heard in the aftermath of last month’s South by Southwest Music Festival. In my Austin wanderings, I mostly avoided L.A. bands, figuring I […]
[Happy birthday to Duff McKagan, rock star, online columnist and … mountain climber.] My, what a diverse music menu you have tonight, Los Angeles. Let’s start with a couple intriguing small shows, like at the Silverlake Lounge, where Andy Friedman & the Other Failures are in from Brooklyn. Friedman is a New Yorker cartoonist-turned-poet-turned-folk singer […]
Local quintet Eagle Winged Palace has signed to Park the Van Records, the label home of Dr. Dog and the Spinto Band. The project started by Eric “Cashew” Harding, formerly a principal in the Prix, Eagle Winged Palace will release its debut EP “Hand of Doom” on March 17. The fivesome is currently recording a […]
