Ears Wide Open: Earth Is a Death Star
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Earth Is a Death Star (EiaDS) has grown from experimental electronic musings to a fully realized band. Their new EP “TDH” leads you in with shoegazey indie rock then melts your face down.
Tonight in L.A.: Mellowdrone, Christine & the Queens, the Red Pears
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Also on Saturday: Seu Jorge, Dreamers, KCRW Masquerade, KROQ Halloween Ball, Dia De Los Muertos, Ice Cube, Surf City Blitz, Bruno Mars, LANY, Josh Groban, Paul Oakenfold, Sergio Mendes, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Midnight Sister, Howie Day
This Week’s Shows: Oct. 22-28
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Incoming: KT Tunstall, Miya Folick, Motopony, Victoria Williams, Jessie Reyez, Bruno Mars, Zhu, Edie Brickell, Carl Broemel, Saintseneca, Luke Top, Welshly Arms, BØRNS, Simple Minds, Gruff Rhys, Years & Years, Cypress Hill, Lisa Stansfield, Kitten, Tauk, the Alarm, Thomas Rhett, LANY, Christina Aguilera, Black Moth Super Rainbow, KCRW Masquerade, Mellowdrone, Surf City Blitz, Seu Jorge, Christine & the Queens, the Red Pears, Dreamers, Phil Collins, Y La Bamba, the Ocean Blue
Mellowdrone’s Jonathan Bates, on the trio’s reunion, battling his demons and (the myth of) coming full circle
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Mellowdrone today released a new EP, “3,” the latest step in the L.A. trio’s surprising comeback. In a Buzz Bands LA interview, singer-guitarist Jonathan Bates talk about the reunion, and cleaning up his own act.
Premiere: Mellowdrone, ‘Let It Out’
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Resurgent L.A. trio Mellowdrone will release a new EP on Sept. 26. The heady new single “Let It Out” is a life lesson about what it means to be a man.
Tonight in L.A.: Steely Dan, EELS, Mellowdrone, JoJo
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Also on Wednesday: Rivers Cuomo, Low Hum, Japandroids, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Styx, the Struts, Dear Nora, Moxi, Singer & the Scientist, Cosmic Kitten, Astronomyy, Subhumans, Dana Williams
This Week’s Shows: May 28-June 3
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Incoming: Paul Simon, EELS, Hinds, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Japandroids, the Struts, Steely Dan, JoJo, Mellowdrone, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, James Taylor, Okkervil River, Curtis Harding, Mating Ritual, Liz Phair, Buckcherry, Pink, the Dead Milkmen, Poolside, Tuxedo, Dr. Dog, Lord Huron, GZA, Calexico, Greg Laswell, Ray Lamontagne, Jonah Matranga
Video: Polinski, ‘Stitches’
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Guitar rockers making mind-bending electro – “Stitches,” the first single from the Polinski album “Labyrinths,” features two of them. Polinski is the nom de tune of Paul Wolinski of U.K. math-rockers 65daysofstatic, and the phased vocals on the track belong to Jonathan Bates, the Mellowdrone main man whose own foray into electro, as Big Black […]
Premiere: War Widow, ‘No Means Yes’
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Band bios are full of lore, much of which should be enjoyed for entertainment value only. But even if the story behind War Widow is only partially true, it’s one of my favorites: Jon Peloso and Eric Blackwell met in a bar fight in which they were both defending a drag queen, a brawl that […]
Ears Wide Open: Mellowdrone
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[One in a series on new music from L.A. environs:] Mellowdrone has spent the past couple of years picking up the pieces – after its promising 2006 debut “Box,” the band was dropped by Columbia and a couple of members fell by the wayside, leaving the core duo of Jonathan Bates [pictured] and Tony DeMatteo […]
