Happy Sunday: ‣ West Hollywood gets dibs on the first L.A. street festival this summer. The Hudson Block Party returns with an impressive lineup featuring White Rabbits [that’s the video for “Temporary” above], LP, Saint Motel, Haim, Little Hurricane, the Neighbourhood and more. [Doors open at 11 a.m. – here are your set times.] ‣ […]
Selections for your sunny Saturday: ‣ Making it their second show of the weekend, Dum Dum Girls kick off this summer’s free Saturdays Off the 405 series at the Getty Museum. Neil Schield of Origami Vinyl will be spinning tunes beforehand. More info here. ‣ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah headline the El Rey Theatre […]
Haroula Rose‘s latest record “These Open Roads” offers many of the songstress’ graceful ballads and soothing folk, but she’s been writing with brighter color and faster tempos on her way to her forthcoming album, which is set for a release later this year. Her follow-up “So Easy” (out June 4) foreshadows a sunny retro-pop sound, […]
Summer’s approaching and if you don’t feel it just yet, blast any of of Baby Monster‘s songs and that should do the job. Although they’re mostly known for their remixes of Gorillaz, Ellie Goulding and Foster the People, Daniel Sternbaum and Marty Larson Xu now have new original material to follow up their self-titled 2011 […]
It only took four singles for Saint Motel to finally reveal the release date and title of their forthcoming album. However, with the announcement of their latest, “1997,” – another high-energy, theatrically inclined song with a grand entrance and shiny keyboard riff – we now know that their debut record “Voyeur” is slated for a […]
The Troubadour experienced a Scandinavian invasion on Tuesday, but with Ane Brun at the helm of an intimate night, the venue and its patrons welcomed the event with open arms. Foreshadowing an evening of theatrically sophisticated odes to heartbreak and love, the lights dimmed before Brun, a Grammy-winning artist in her homeland Norway, walked underneath […]
Five-time Grammy Award-winning singer Donna Summer died this morning at the age of 63 after a long battle with both lung cancer and breast cancer. Summer reigned as the disco queen during the 1970s with hits such as “Last Dance” and “Love to Love You Baby.” Follow the L.A. Times for more.
Quirky pop comes and goes, but it’s refreshing for a band to make you actually feel the sugary onomatopoeia the genre gets its name from. If you’re looking for a Shins-lite kind of band with a Paul Simon twist, Cambridge, Mass.,-based duo You Won’t are available to provide your next summer soundtrack. Josh Arnoudse and […]
If you think you’ve never heard of Brooklyn quartet Chappo, you’re probably wrong. Chances are you’ve heard their song “Come Home” in an iPod Touch commercial from two years ago. The track was originally off of their “Plastique Universe” EP, which was followed up by “Plastique Universe II: Pisces Princess” EP. After several short releases, […]
“Four years. Never again!” Meiko says. Yes, it’s taken that much time for her sophomore album, “The Bright Side,” to arrive. The former Hotel Cafe waitress-turned-singing sensation was the first artist signed to then-booming MySpace Records back in the day, shooting up the songwriter charts on iTunes and finding her songs in hit TV shows. […]
