The backgrounder for “Dance in Your Blood,” the latest single from Omniflux, notes that songwriter Mahsa Zargaran derived inspiration from “long walks listening to Dead Can Dance and Massive Attack.” Sound like a line from a profile on a dating site, right? Awright, we’ll send a wink. “Dance in Your Blood” does indeed conjure up […]
Before Omniflux seduced us in 2011, we met Mahsa Zargaran as part of rock outfit Sabrosa Purr and then later on as one of two drummers in Big Black Delta’s woozy space-electronica. The L.A.-based singer-songwriter was was always a fan of Dead Can Dance and Massive Attack, but in her childhood she was weened on […]
A super Saturday again: ‣ Rhye performs a sold-out show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in support of their album “Woman.” ‣ Danish electric music producer Trentemøller headlines the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Southern rockers Widespread Panic stops by the Orpheum Theatre. ‣ Crosby, Stills & Nash, John Mayer, Don Felder, Brandi Carlile and Chris Stills […]
Incoming: Zella Day, the Strypes, Moses Sumney, James Supercave, Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Moons of Mars, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Church, Tall Tales & Silver Lining, Issues, Cut Copy, Neil Young, Kelela, the Futures League, Aaron Embry, the Cerny Brothers, Betty Who, Lacuna Coil, Zucherro, Neil Finn, Willy Nelson, Incan Abraham, Barcelona, Schoolboy Q, John Legend, […]
Here’s your Tuesday: ‣ L.A. garage-rockers Froth [pictured] celebrates the release of their “Patterns” LP at the Echo, supported by Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel, Corners and Gangrene Gang. ‣ Stellar local lineup at the Satellite, headed up by Omniflux and featuring Tic Tic Boom! and Pr0files. ‣ Tall Tales & the Silver Lining […]
Your very busy and very steamy Friday night: ‣ Milo Greene returns to L.A. for a sold-out hometown show at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ‣ It’s a free night of music downtown at the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, with Allah Las, Brooklyn’s Prince Rama and Gothic Tropic. ‣ Baths headline the El Rey […]
Lots of choices for your Friday fun: ‣ San Francisco’s the Fresh & Onlys [see their video for “Presence of Mind”] team up with Terry Malts for a show at the Echo. ‣ The Heavy [see their video for “What Makes a Good Man?] play the El Rey Theatre with the Silent Comedy as support. […]
Omniflux arrived on our radar with a bang in October with the brooding “Boy Caught in a Dress,” and the solo incarnation of Mahsa Zargaran figures to stay there if she keeps churning out singles like her new “She and Him.” Zargaran, a classically trained pianist known in local rock circles as the drummer for […]
Before I get all giddy about tonight’s LA Buzz Bands show on KCSN (88.5 FM) – and I am giddy – some thank-yous are in order. First, thanks to everybody who contributed to KCSN’s “Pump the Power” pledge drive (you can still donate here). And second, tip of the cap to Mark Sovel, aka Mr. […]
Mahsa Zargaran can be all sticks and fury when she’s banging the skins for L.A. rockers Sabrosa Purr and Big Black Delta, but the Iranian-born multi-instrumentalist is not just a little drummer girl. Zargaran is classically trained pianist – and, in her solo project Omniflux, a sculptor of brooding art-rock that fans of PJ Harvey […]
