Ears Wide Open: Racquet Club
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Racquet Club, the new quartet continuing the lineage of the Jealous Sound and Knapsack, have an album en route via Rise Records. They make their live debut Saturday at Resident.
Tonight in L.A.: Poolside/YACHT/Kisses, Living Colour, Lalah Hathaway, the Jealous Sound, Daedelus, KXSC Festival, Paid Dues Festival
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Shows to go with your sunny Saturday: ‣Â It’s a perfect day to head down to Santa Monica Pier, especially when Poolside, YACHT, Kisses and Them Jeans play as part of the summer series “All Bands On Deck” starting at 4:00 P.M. An after-party will follow featuring DJ sets by Poolside, Guns in the Sun and […]
Tonight in L.A.: M. Ward, Solange, ZZ Ward/Delta Rae, Big Search, the Jealous Sound, Parade of Lights
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Your Thursday possibilities: ‣Â M. Ward gives a concert at the Orpheum Theatre – a makeup date for the October show he was forced to postpone because of illness. Karen Elson and Soul-Junk support. That’s Ward’s video for “The First Time I Ran Away,” above; the song is off his seventh solo albu,, “A Wasteland Companion,” […]
Tonight in L.A.: Crystal Castles/HEALTH, The Soft Pack, The Jealous Sound, Dan Deacon, Cold Cave, Ellie Goulding/PSY, Peaches/Big Freedia, more
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Oh, it’s just another massive Saturday: ‣ In support of their forthcoming record “III” (out Nov 3. Fiction Records), Crystal Castles headline the Hollywood Palladium with strong supporting bands HEALTH and Kontravoid. ‣ The Echoplex gets rocked by the Soft Pack, Crocodiles and Heavy Hawaii. ‣ The Jealous Sound, Weatherbox and Cardboard Lamb all team […]
The Week Ahead: Oct. 15-21
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Incoming: Xavier Rudd, Ellie Goulding, Freelance Whales, First Aid Kit, Carrie Underwood, Bombay Bicycle Club, Neil Young, Lupe Fiasco, Don Felder, Stars, Los Campesinos!, the Whigs, Twin Shadow, Woods, ZZ Ward, Leon Russell, Paul Weller, Allen Stone, Frightened Rabbit, the Growlers, Maroon 5, Crocodiles, Crystal Castles, the Soft Pack, the Jealous Sound, Dan Deacon, Peaches, […]
Tonight in L.A.: Soft Swells, the Dead Ships, the Jealous Sound, Terraplane Sun, Mind the Gap, Das Racist, Cate Le Bon, the Record Company
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A bounty of excellent local shows tonight: ‣ Soft Swells celebrate the release of their self-titled album with an early show (8 p.m.) at the Hotel Cafe, where the Ruby Friedman Orchestra plays an even earlier set (7) and King Washington plays later. [See Soft Swells’ “Put It on the Line.”] ‣ The Dead Ships […]
Stream: The Jealous Sound, ‘A Gentle Reminder’ (full album)
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Midway through the Jealous Sound’s comeback album “A Gentle Reminder,” singer-guitarist Blair Shehan sings optimistically, “This is happening.” Fans of the L.A. quartet’s breakthrough “Kill Them With Kindness,” selected one of SPIN’s best albums of 2003, will hardly believe it. After the eight years, the Jealous Sound is back, shedding baggage, embracing the future and […]
BTW (Bands to Watch), 2012: 10 Los Angeles bands we haven’t heard from in a while but should this year
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Color me eager to hear new material from these 10 artists:
Tonight in L.A.: The Kooks, Peter Murphy, Tennis, the Jealous Sound, Lana Del Rey, Shana Halligan, Jeffrey Lewis, Monte Mar, Meiko, Just an Animal
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What a Wednesday night you have in store: ‣ The Kooks play the first of two nights at the Music Box behind their new album “Junk of the Heart.” Yawn opens. ‣ Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge bring their co-headlining tour to Club Nokia. ‣ Resurgent L.A. quartet the Jealous Sound [see “Your Eyes […]
Stream: The Jealous Sound, ‘Your Eyes Were Shining’
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More than eight years after their last proper release, the Jealous Sound is back. There’s probably a novel to be written about what transpired with the L.A. quartet between releasing their 2003 emo-pop masterpiece (yes, it’s that good) “Kill Them With Kindness” and their 2009 reunion to tour with Sunny Day Real Estate. But fast-forward […]
