Your spectacular Saturday: ‣ The legendary Beach Boys celebrate their 50th anniversary with a reunion tour and stop by the Hollywood Bowl with their pop-laden harmonies. ‣ Glasgow’s post-rock band Mogwai tear it up at the Fonda Theatre with Chad Van Gaalen as support. ‣ Cass McCombs headlines the El Rey Theatre in support of […]
Sometimes you hear a voice and wonder where it’s been all this time, and why this voice hasn’t been singing all your favorite songs all along. Often such an artist had been writing hit songs for other people, and that’s exactly the case with Scottish soul and R&B singer Emeli Sandé. With tunes like the […]
It took Eyes Lips Eyes over a year to record 2011’s “Blue Red,” but the quartet, who call their sound “disco-punk,” are already hard at work on their follow-up album. Perhaps it’s because Tony Hello, Spencer Petersen, Aaron Hatch and Thomas Carroll all felt the rushing momentum of L.A. as soon as they made the […]
M83 have been busy touring in support of their latest record “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (we’ve witnessed three of those dates since its release), but they also continue to bear gifts in the form of highly cinematic music videos. The story line for the electrifying “Reunion” picks up right where the clip for “Midnight City” […]
@Seraphina_L on Sunday’s Silver Lake Jubilee: The Silver Lake Jubilee continued on Sunday and pulled in even more attendees than it did on Saturday. The weather was warmer and the neighborhood embraced that as a chance to stroll the streets one more day since it was a long weekend. Higher ticket prices didn’t seem to […]
Kimbra Johnson, now mononymously known as Kimbra, brought some life to Hollywood Forever Cemetery when she returned to L.A. for a show in the majestic Masonic Lodge on Thursday night. Touting her outrageous fashion again, the New Zealand-born singer proved she was much more than the female voice in her international hit “Somebody I Used […]
Australia’s brother-sister duo Angus and Julia Stone have crossed all oceans after several EPs and three albums together, but every once in a while they take time apart. Angus released a solo album in 2009, and Julia released “The Memory Machine” in 2010. This time, Julia’s record “By the Horns” (out May 29 on Nettwerk) […]
[A few tunes from L.A. artists who have been hard at work…] FIDLAR, “Got No Money” – Zac Carper and gang, whose acronym stands for F–k It Dog, Life’s a Risk, return with yet another single from their “Don’t Try” EP (out now on Mom + Pop). “Got No Money” has the odd juxtaposition of […]
Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck of Sweden’s I Break Horses may or may not be fans of Smog, but either way, the sonic offerings on their debut album “Hearts” is far from anything one would liken to Bill Callahan. Their shoegaze influences are obvious (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus & Mary Chain), but the electronic […]
[Here are new tunes from a few L.A. bands we’ve written about in the past…] Goldroom, “Fifteen (feat. Chela)” (via Facebook) – The last time we heard from producer Josh Legg, aka Goldroom, his synths had taken on a more festive feel with “Morgan’s Bay,” but Legg – who is also a member of the […]
