Join me this morning on Little Radio for the weekly Buzz Bands show – my guest will be Los Angeles rocker Nico Stai. We’ll talk about his musical adventures, spin some of his selections and discuss the traffic patterns in downtown L.A. Or something like that. The show starts at 10 a.m. – listen in, […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Brian Eno, so let’s have a busy weekend in his honor …] Tonight: I like to think of the Aggrolites’ music as a cocktail of reggae, funk, soul and some elbow grease. They call it “dirty reggae,” and tonight at the El Rey, the L.A. band [pictured] will have […]
[New sounds from L.A. artists:] Genre-mashing L.A. duo Looner is gearing up for the May 26 release of a new single, “I Love My Tamagotchee!” – based on the obsession with the Japanese Tamagotchi toy, the song is streaming on the band’s MySpace page – and, later this year, an EP executive-produced by Ziggy Marley. […]
Looks like a video to me, anyway, but Tori Amos is calling this a “visualette.” The deluxe edition of Amos’ new album, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” (due Tuesday), has a DVD of visualettes videos that, according to the press release, are “interlocking episodic films bring to life the narrative arc of the album.” This episode […]
[A heaping helping of birthday wishes to David Byrne, and now to capsulize a busy night in the city:] Even if you steer clear of the boldfaced names playing the bigger rooms – Mos Def at the House of Blues, Murs and Tech N9ne at the Key Club, the Indigo Girls at the El Rey […]
[Two cool feasts for the eyes and ears from L.A. environs …] Glasser is the nom de tune of L.A. singer-songwriter Cameron Mesirow, whose airy, beat-driven electro-hymns seem to defy gravity. Foreign Born’s Matt Popieluch collaborates in her band, whose three-song 12-inch, including this tune, “Apply,” will be released on True Panther on May 26 […]
[Happy birthday and many more, Stevie Wonder …] What does rock ‘n’ roll, Russian style, sound like? Two parts simmering classic rock, one part fractured pop and … pretty cool, actually. Mumiy Troll, originally scheduled to visit L.A. in March as part of the Russian Winter Festival, plays tonight at the Roxy; it’s a makeup […]
‘Bout time. Correatown – the musical hometown of Angela Correa –will release “Spark. Burn. Fade” in July (digitally, it’s out May 26). It’s basically the same album she originally titled “Echoes” (I got a promo copy sometime in 2008, and I was excited about the music then), chock full of her great storytelling and languid […]
The Faraway Places, “Out of the Rain, the Thunder & the Lightning” (Save It, May 12) – Power pop and summer seem to go together like Dodgers dogs and the crack of the bat … or cool drinks and shade trees … or like the boy-girl vocals delivered by Chris Colthart and Donna Coppola on […]
||| Download: “Buzzsicle 3” I originally created Buzzsicle 3 for a special promotion, and … well, it’s a long story, but I never posted it until now. It’s an hour’s worth of music featuring 15 songs by L.A. artists Red Cortez, Spider Problem, the Yelling, Greyboy, the Gray Kid, Keenhouse, NightWaves, Shiloe, Robotanists, His Orchestra, […]
