Also on Friday: The Besnard Lakes, Turquoise Noise, Gary Clark Jr., Gill Landry, Eric Bellinger, Rising Appalachia, Mr. Carmack, Vanic, Snow Tha Product, Tribute to Daft Punk, Lydia, Pulley
Long-running Montreal shoegazers the Besnard Lakes visit the Echo on Friday night in support of their fifth album, “A Coliseum Complex Museum.”
Incoming: Aurora, the Naked & Famous, YG, Two Door Cinema Club, Nick Murphy, Daughter, Dragonette, Cory Hanson, Mount Kimbie, Honus Honus, Mr. Little Jeans, Gary Clark Jr., Lee Fields & the Expressions, Hunny, James Vincent McMorrow, Doyle Bramhall II, the Besnard Lakes, Islands, Rüfüs du Sol, Turquoise Noise, Kristin Hersh, Body Language
Saturday stuff: ‣ Chelsea Wolfe plays UCLA’s Royce Hall behind her latest release “Pain Is Beauty, with Anna Calvi opening. ‣ Montreal space-rockers the Besnard Lakes, their fourth album “Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO” having been nominated for a Polaris Music Prize, visit the Bootleg Theater, with Elephant Stone and Exploding Flowers supporting. ‣ Singer-songwriter […]
Incoming: Andrew McMahon, Diane Coffee, Sparks, Of Montreal, Blink-182, M.I.A., the Fratellis, Minor Alps, Alison Moyet, Cults, the Cartel, Strange Markings, Quasi, Mad Professor, Only You, Melt Banana, Lupe Fiasco, Mason Jennings, Cass McCombs, Big Freedia, the Vim Dicta, Jonathan Wilson, Steve Aoki, Iggy Azalea, Waka Flocka Flame, Beats Antique, Mayday Parade, the Record Company, Vienna […]
Your midweek options: ‣ Athens’ purveyors of Southern Gothic twang Futurebirds (pictured) headline the Satellite on a buzzy night that also features Van Pierszalowski’s post-Port O’Brien project Waters and Portland chamber-pop sextet Loch Lomond. ‣ The Quebec in Hollywood festivities at the El Rey Theatre offer four bands seemingly only connected by geography – Patrick […]
So the Barr Brothers’ story goes that guitarist Brad Barr heard a neighbor, Sarah Page, practicing her harp, learned the melody, knocked on her door and played it for her. Which makes for a nice warm-and-fuzzy – not unlike the Montreal quartet’s self-titled debut album (out next week on Secret City Records). It’s bluesy, tool-shed […]
[My overall Top 20 albums in a year informed by a mountain of good music and an avalanche of trying times, based purely on how much they resonated with me. I was lucky this year to have seen all but 4 of these artists live. With my 4-word reviews:] 1. Arcade Fire, “The Suburbs.” Sonically […]
[John Lennon would have turned 70 tomorrow. Go to Google and press play.] Top 8 artists I’d be excited about seeing this weekend at the Culture Collide festival [background, schedule] if I could be everywhere at once: ‣ The Besnard Lakes, Land of Talk, Klaxons, the Boxer Rebellion [pictured], Amusement Parks on Fire, El Guincho, […]
To label Montreal quartet the Besnard Lakes as shoegaze, or prog-rock, or even post-rock, is almost demeaning. Those terms each have implied deficiencies, very few of which you will find on “The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night,” the third album from the band anchored by husband and wife team Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek. […]
