As if Kan Wakan needed any more cinematic touches, the Los Angeles experimental orchestral pop collective closed out the Getty Center’s summer series Saturdays Off the 405 with a slew of special guests this weekend. Heavenly harmonies from the Silver Lake Chorus magically cushioned the smokey riffs from new Kan Wakan vocalist Brittany “KP” Mullen […]
Another super Saturday: ‣ Chinatown caps its popular Summer Night series with its Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, and it’s another stacked night. The LA Weekly-sponsored live music stage curated by Buzz Bands LA features Crash Kings [pictured], Dorothy, Mosco Rosco, SD3 (featuring Cary Brothers), the Singles and Run Things at Chinatown Central Plaza. Loads of family activities, a stellar […]
“I feel everything,” sang WATERS frontman Van Pierszalowski on Wednesday night at the Echo. The sentiment (and title of WATERS’ latest single) rang loud and clear as Pierszalowski, clad in tie-dye, wailed the lyric while pogo-ing on stage toward the end of the evening. The energy was welcomed in the packed-to-the-gills room by fans who […]
Jessie Ware, the U.K. soul chanteuse who has made the quiet storm genre hip again (and grabbed our attention with her debut “Devotion” in 2012), returns Oct. 21 with “Tough Love,” which bears the same name of album’s lead single. Ware recently followed it up with the Ed Sheeran-co-written pop ballad “Say You Love Me,” […]
Gardens & Villa won’t be making their way back to Los Angeles for a while, but they’re offering something to tide fans over. The Santa Barbara quintet has put together a collection of demos titled “Televisor,” which includes work from their time with producer Richard Swift (now of the Black Keys) at his National Freedom […]
Cathedrals‘ latest single “Ooo Aaa” may come with an excessively onomatopoeic song title, but its members Brodie Jenkins and Johnny Hwin know how to turn a smokey rock ballad into an electro banger for the dance floor. The San Francisco-based duo has been shooting up the Hype Machine charts with the track along with the […]
L.A. conceptual pop duo of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, aka YACHT, follow up their 2011 album “Shangri-La” with the punny track “Where Does This Disco?” which they say “is about love and compact discs.” That’s not the only news they have though. Since the release of previous single “Plastic Soul,” they’ve signed to Downtown Records, collaborated with […]
There are cookie-cutter female pop stars and then there are those like Kathleen Hanna and Beth Ditto who cut against the grain. Add Toronto’s Elizabeth Lowell – who does business simply as Lowell – to that list of empowering artists. Lowell’s EP “I Killed Sara V” helped her grab touring spots with Flume, Grimes and […]
There’s plenty of falsetto in R&B and pop music these days, but the pure and poignant vocal styling is rarely paired with hard rock or shoegaze anymore. Cymbals Eat Guitars, the NYC quartet who just released the gorgeous “LOSE” in August, takes those floating vocals and drapes them over an ocean of reverb, psychedelic guitars […]
Disco chanteuse (and colorful blur when dancing in her flapper twosies on stage) Gavin Turek offers a new and free track to jump-start your week. Melt the Monday woes with “Pride,” a track produced by fellow Angeleno and electronic artist Mystery Skulls (aka Luis Dubuc). Turek, whose notable talents also include channeling her wild energy […]
