It’s been five years since Greg Dulli released a Twilight Singers album, but the early returns on “Dynamite Steps” (due Feb. 15 on Sub Pop) hint that it was worth the wait. “On the Corner” reveals Dulli at his brooding best, simmering and then exploding on what might be the most radio-ready Twilight Singers song […]
Taylor Locke has all the makings of a pop star. He has the comportment of a rock frontman, the requisite guitar licks and a boyish tenor that sounds oh so earnest when he belts out all those songs about girls. He has apprenticed as guitarist in the L.A. quintet Rooney. And suddenly, about two years […]
[Shows to consider while waiting to hear Jason Bentley interview electro-pop sensation David Lynch this morning on KCRW (10:15 a.m.):] Tonight’s top outings: ‣ Olin & the Moon, their new album “Footsteps” getting them some deserved attention, continue their residency at the Echo with fine support from Wire in the Walls and Family of the […]
[Birthday greetings today go out to Stephin Merritt …] Calling it just another manic Monday: ‣ New Jersey punk rockers Screaming Females (that’s their video for “Wild,” above) bring their riot grrrl-inspired shredding to the Echoplex, supported by La Sera and Lovely Bad Things. ‣ Expect to hear some new songs when Great Northern plays […]
Cold War Kids have logged a lot of miles since the SoCal-bred quartet first arrived six years ago with their spare, bluesy indie-rock. Two albums, “Robbers & Cowards” (2006) and “Loyalty to Loyalty” (2008), established them as deft storytellers, but for their third, “Mine Is Yours” (due Jan. 25 on Downtown), they’ve turned the narratives […]
Considering the adroit manner that Pepper Rabbit shape-shifts its buoyant pop via a web of guitar, banjo, ukulele, horns, clarinet, keys and drums, there’s something perfect about the video for the single “Harvest Moon,” off the L.A. trio’s debut album “Beauregard” (Kanine Records). The piece was directed by Alex Disenhof and David Altobelli, with nifty […]
Dan Horne has played in so many bands we’re starting to lose track – he can list the Lilys, Mezzanine Owls and the Street & Babe Shadow on his resumé, to name a few. So when we get an e-mail that he’s gone “totally Hollywood,” we have to smile. But it’s true, kinda: Fiction Company, […]
Just because you’re not an overnight sensation doesn’t mean you can’t be sensational. So it is with Olin & the Moon, the quintet that has scrapped, scrambled and scraped by in the four years since brothers David and Travis LaBrel and Marshall Vore moved to Los Angeles from Idaho and hooked up with Brian McGinnis […]
Dan Crane has carved out pretty enviable stage personas as Jean-Luc Retard in the cheeky fake-French band Nous Non Plus and as air guitar legend Björn Türoque. But in his newest endeavor, the Quick Hellos, he plays non other than Dan Crane, a guy who writes downright pretty songs. “I felt that maybe it’s time […]
Foster the People emerged seemingly out of thin air last year with the single “Pumped Up Kicks” [previewed here], which pushed the needle on songwriter Mark Foster’s buzzmeter into the red zone and led to a record deal with Columbia. The band has spent the past six months working on recording new music, the first […]
