Cooper Gillespie has channeled pedal-to-the-metal rocker grrl (in her old band Bang Sugar Bang) and electronic seductress in the early trip-hop work of Mad Planet. On the Silver Lake quartet’s new album “Ghost Notes” (out today), the singer-bassist is finds a comfy middle ground, her sultry vocals alternately biting on the rockers and sweetly vulnerable […]
Here’s your Tuesday show menu: ‣ Huge night at the Bootleg – Singer-songwriter, author and Throwing Muses co-founder Kristin Hersh [pictured] does an early solo acoustic show in the theater portion of the venue. Later, Josh Haden and Spain headline the Bootleg Bar behind their new album “The Soul of Spain.” Mike Watt + the […]
Happy sunny Sunday: ‣ Rowdy garage rockers FIDLAR, who are preparing for their new “No Waves/No Ass 7-inch, headline the Echo tonight. [See their video “Oh” here.] Pangea, the Lovely Bad Things and Anus Kings also round out the boisterous lineup. ‣ Mad Planet brings their electro-rock over to the Central S.AP.C. where the Open […]
If tonight’s show list were any longer, it’d be a Phish song: ‣ New York’s Penguin Prison brings his dancey electro-pop to the Echo, supported by American Royalty. That’s Penguin Prison’s Occupy Wall Street-inspired video for “Don’t F*ck With My Money,” above. ‣ M83 and Big Black Delta do a second sold-out night at Club […]
It’s a good day to get off to an early start: ‣ The Gourmet Music Carnival – part food fair, part flea market and part music festival – goes off at Los Angeles State Historic part from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Walking Sleep, Francisco the Man and Mad […]
Mad Planet’s first album, 2010’s “All Elephants,” was more about the beats and textures than the shreddy guitars of principals’ previous bands, Bang Sugar Bang in singer-bassist Cooper Gillespie’s case and the Nervous Return in drummer Greg Gordon’s. But the beguiling trip-hop of that first record is almost nowhere to be found in “Pieces of […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Queens of the Stone Age/Sweethead guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen … Now for tonight’s goodies:] Top 3 midweek outings: ‣ It’s the album-release show for noisy L.A. duo Alpine Decline, who are joined by Polls and Blonde Summer at the Silverlake Lounge. ‣ One of our fair city’s finest purveyors […]
Top 5 local shows on a night of interesting local shows: ‣ Frank Fairfield and Simon Stokes – along with members of Spindrift performing as Boy Scout Jamboree, Triple Chicken Foot, Vaud & the Villains, Amanda Jo Williams and Olentangy John (that’s his video of “O! Be Joyful,” above) – perform tonight at the Echoplex […]
[Raising a glass to Siouxsie Sioux on her birthday …] Top 5 musical entanglements this evening: ‣ Berlin techno/house duo Booka Shade visit the Fonda Theatre behind their recently released fifth album, “More!” (which includes the single “Bad Love,” featuring vocalist Chelonis R. Jones). ‣ Onetime indie darlings Voxtrot say goodbye to L.A. – their […]
The music of L.A. duo Mad Planet represent a made change of direction for the parties involved: Greg Gordon was the drummer in the agit-punk band the Nervous Return; Cooper Gillespie sang in the pop-punk outfit Bang Sugar Bang. Now they’re exploring jazz- and soul-flavored electro, and their sultry stylings have more in common with […]
