Our Black Friday show specials: ‣ Crooked Fingers, the long-running project of Archers of Loaf singer Eric Bachmann, headlines the Echo behind their sixth album (and first since 2008) “Breaks in the Armor.” Strand of Oaks and Graham Lindsey support. ‣ L.A. indie-pop quintet Walking Sleep, joined by the Shirley Rolls, play the Satellite in […]
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 […]
‣ Prince continues to take over the Forum. ‣ Shoegaze dream-poppers, Asobi Seksu headline the Satellite tonight with Scattered Trees and Useless Keys opening. ||| Download: Asobi Seksu, “Perfectly Crystal (Beach Fossils/Spirit Animal Remix)” ‣ Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub, featuring drummer extraordinaire Brian Blade and soulful singer Trixie Whitley, plays the Music Box tonight with […]
[April has come quickly, soliciting our ears and filling our concert calendars. On the occasion of a new week and Miranda Lee Richards’ birthday, here’s what’s up:] The best of Monday’s madness: ‣ Big evening at It’s a School Night at Bardot, where Crowded House frontman Neil Finn (who headlines the El Rey on Tuesday) […]
In March, L.A. quintet Walking Sleep unveiled the first of three digital EPs the band has crafted in a tarp factory. The idea was to resist over-finessing their new songs in a studio, and so far, the industrial space has ever-so-subtly rewarded the indie-poppers’ sweet/sharp dynamic. It’s evidenced in “Someone Who Could Be Loved,” the […]
L.A. indie poppers Walking Sleep shed their long name (the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra) in 2010, added Sarah Radle of the Rentals to the lineup, put out their debut album “Measures” and now have come back with new material, less than a year later. Only this time, they’ve opted for more of an acoustic sound to […]
Few community festivals outside of Silver Lake can boast a better music lineup that this weekend’s edition of Lobsterfest at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. Oh, the waterfront affair still has a family-friendly vibe – it’s just that thanks to music curator Mark Sovel, the former music director of the sorely missed […]
[Happy birthday, Geddy Lee … and here’s what’s up on our happy Thursday:] Top 4 shows to not-so-surreptitiously tweet from: ‣ Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic, whose thicket of hypnotic beats, dizzying synths and spry melodies coalesce nicely on their sophomore album “Pigeons,” visits the Troubadour (with Beach Fossils opening). That’s HWGM’s video for “Collector,” […]
This just in: The music lineup for the 2010 Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival – Lobsterfest to everybody who got buttery fingers in past years – is its most impressive yet, featuring John Doe & Exene Cervenka anchoring a roster of some of SoCal’s most promising up-and-comers and genre-diverse indie artists. The three-day shindig […]
You’ve likely heard Sara Radle, if not a few years back in the last incarnation of the Rentals then recently as the distaff vocalist in the L.A. indie-pop outfit Walking Sleep. Her solo career, three releases strong before she moved to L.A. from her native Texas in 2005, displays an affection for folk-flavored power-pop and […]
