Your post-Valentine’s Day music menu:Â ‣ Spiritualized play their second sold-out show at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. ‣Â Paul Simon and Sting co-headline at the Forum tonight. ‣Â Thao & the Get Down Stay Down visit the El Rey Theatre in support of their latest album “We the Common.” [That’s their video for “The Feeling Kind” […]
L.A. trio Run Things may look and sound familiar. At least the vocals will bring you back if you were a fan of L.A. bands Anglos and Risers. Yes, Josh Thorpe and a couple of his old bandmates have risen from the ashes and have not only formed a new band, but they’ve taken their new […]
Considering her collaborations with big names such as SOHN and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Banks‘ latest Shlohmo-produced track “Brain” isn’t a shocker. However, the first taste from her forthcoming debut (due out on Harvest Records this year) is by no means any less seductive or ghostly. Transforming a typical “woh-oh-oh” pop chorus into the slinkiest […]
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, aka Mirah, is back, and this time she’s got a new label and a record all on her own. Although the 2011 Merril Garbus-produced collaboration album she did with Thao Nguyen was nothing less than excellent, there’s something powerful about the Brooklyn singer all by her lonesome. Balancing fragility and strength, […]
Haven’t seen Together Pangea live yet? Then their video for the appropriately titled “Offer” may entice you. Slightly NSFW but mostly chock-full of drunk dudes falling over and kids making out, it’s a video the band made with their friends for their friends. Basically, it’s the perfect opportunity to vicariously live the life of a […]
We know Gavin Turek can sing and shake it, but we know more importantly that her songwriting chops are what’s gotten her noticed in the first place. Turek’s still at the forefront of producing and collaborating with some of today’s rising electronic stars (Tokimonsta, Com Truise) and lending her voice when she can to other […]
Can’t wait to see Jagwar Ma at Coachella? Watching the Australian psych-dance outfit dance underneath a rainbow-colored sky full of stars in the Californian Mojave dessert might have to do for now. Directed by frontman Jona Ma’s brother David, the clip visually accompanies the Madchester-happy track “Uncertainty.” It’s the very track in which Jagwar May pulled […]
A strong Saturday night:Â ‣Â If you’re up for a night of free music and fun downtown, the Chinese New Year Festival kicks off at Chinatown’s Central Plaza tonight. The LA Weekly Live Music Stage featuring a Buzz Bands LA-curated lineup includes the Happy Hollows, Parade of Lights, Line & Circle, Raw Geronimo, A House for […]
From the moment Yuck released the scrappy “Get Away” off their 2011 self-titled debut, the U.K. indie-rockers earned applause from shoegaze fans around the world, and they kept the momentum going with last year’s sophomore album “Glow & Behold.” It’s funny how much the London band has grown since, though, considering they lost former frontman […]
When Incan Abraham first hopped on our radar back in 2011, we knew they had the psych-pop chops that would resound near and far. So when the L.A. quartet teamed up with Lewis Pesacov (Fool’s Gold, Foreign Born) on last summer’s  “Tuolumne,” we had good reason to believe their forthcoming album would yield even more remarkable […]
