Former Hot Hot Heat frontman Steve Bays teams up with Jeremy Ruzumna (Fitz & the Tantrums) and Erik Janson (Wildling) in the group Left Field Messiah. The trio’s danceble new single “Fuzz Machine” embodies their genre-fluid chaos.
In June, Hot Hot Heat will release its fifth album and first in six years, a self-titled affair. It will also be the band’s swan song.
Fresh off a three-day gig at the World Expo tour in Shanghai, Newfoundland rockers Hey Rosetta are preparing for a U.S. tour supporting fellow Canadians Hot Hot Heat. Featuring brooding lyrics behind soaring instrumentation, the band uses violin and cello along with traditional rock guitars, piano and drums. Their first proper album “Into Your Lungs” […]
Rock fans know Luke Paquin as the left-handed riff-slinger in the band Hot Hot Heat, but the Street & Babe Shadow, his side project with girlfriend Paige Stark, displays the guitarist’s country side. The band’s self-titled, self-released album (a digital/vinyl release) – made in Dan Horne’s Lone Palm Studio – is a slice of slacker […]
[Happy birthday, Patrick Wolf.] Top 3 ways to send June packing: ‣ Damien Jurado plays Spaceland behind his excellent new release “Saint Bartlett,” and he’ll be backed by an orchestra composed of members of the Seattle band Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground. That’s Jurado’s video for “Arkansas,” above. [Download the track here.] ‣ With […]
[Tip of the cap to Jason Mraz on his birthday …] Top 5 reasons to delay angsting over that “Twilight” premiere: ‣ Did I mention Tuesday how much I liked Stars’ new album “The Five Ghosts?” There’s not a flavor-of-the-moment whiff to the Canadian indie-poppers’ fifth album – just exuberant, well-executed boy-girl pop that has […]
[Happy birthday to Ben Kweller, who inches ever-so-closer to the Big Three-Oh today, which is hard to believe if you knew him back in the Radish days …] My top 3 reasons tonight to postpone obsessing over Game 7: ‣ Eastern Conference Champions, all fired up from scoring the song “A Million Miles an Hour” […]
[Birthday shout-out to Muse’s Matthew Bellamy. Here’s your daily Top 5:] ‣ Karen Elson, the supermodel wife of the White Stripes’ Jack White, brings her pipes to Spaceland to perform behind her debut album “The Ghost Who Walks.” ‣ Hot Hot Heat’s residency at the Bootleg Theater continues – also on the menu tonight are […]
[Why, it’s Prince’s birthday. Apparently they celebrated in his hometown over the weekend …] Top 5 ways to start the week that doesn’t involve wearing my Cardinals red to Dodger Stadium tonight: ‣ Thao and Mirah With the Most of All – the teaming of indie-rock songstresses Thao Nguyen and Mirah for tour on which […]
Low-keying it this weekend? With big sold-out shows in abundance, it might be the way to go. Here are a handful of below-the-radar options: Benefits: Red Cortez, the VLA and the Bixby Knolls [pictured] – and art from musician types like Matt Maust (Cold War Kids), Joel Graves (Everest) and Nathan Warkentin (We Barbarians) – […]
