L.A. quartet the Briggs have been largely off the radar since the latter part of last decade, when you couldn’t go to a sporting event without hearing their pugilistic civic-pride anthem “This Is LA” (part of the Kings’ and the Galaxy’s soundtrack). Their 2008 album “Come All You Madmen,” their fourth, seemed to signal they […]
Your Easter Sunday show: â–º His Name Is Alive, [pictured] who are touring in celebration of the 25th anniversary of “Livonia,” stop by the Echo for an early show (6 pm). The Michigan-based band will be playing songs off the 1990 album (originally released on 4AD) and more. Bell Gardens supports. â–º Later tonight, The […]
Happy Saturday: â–º Tenacious D headlines Kevin & Bean’s April Foolishness at the Shrine Auditorium. Also on the bill: Gabriel Iglesias, Ralphie May, Jay Mohr, Adam Ray, Iliza Shlesinger, Brad Williams and House Music. â–º The Forum’s got Maroon 5, Rozzi Crane and Magic!. That’s Maroon 5’s video for “Sugar” above. â–º The legendary Johnny […]
L.A.-based Jake O’Neal is a transplanted Coloradan who now makes music under the name Drip Lines, having left behind his indie-rock outfit Summa (so named because he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado) in the Rocky Mountain state. Academics aside, you don’t need to sport a 4.0 to feel the emotion in […]
“Make Our Own Way,” the indie-pop nugget that kicks off Little Brutes’ “Desire” EP, is a bright little affirmation that if we stay true to ourselves and embrace the small pleasures, “we’ll have it like we want it,” as singer Rachael Cantu suggests. The song was featured on NBC’s new “One Big Happy,” which stars […]
Connecticut-bred trio Mercies moved to L.A. a year and a half ago — “the great unknown,” they suggest in the song “White Fir” — to build on the creative sparks founding members Josh Rheault and Sammy Dent discovered in making their debut album, 2011’s “Three Thousand Days,” in a old tobacco barn. Joined by Jordan Flower, […]
Ever since Olin & the Moon planted themselves in Los Angeles after taking root in Idaho, the quintet has made some of the most earnest, finely crafted Americana in these (and many other) parts. They’ve become scene staples, and often-overlooked ones at that, but their new album “Every One You Know,” which they are self-releasing […]
Cody Crump is something of a terror. The young singer-guitarist’s bio relays his rocky times in his hometown, the western Colorado outpost of Montrose, where he was kicked out of the high school band and choir and impeached as junior class president after being arrested. He moved to Denver, then to L.A., and in 2013 […]
If you know Maxim Ludwig from his audacious classic rock outfit the Santa Fe Seven or his alt-rock band Drive He Said, you’d think that, given a proper chance, the singer-guitarist could leap tall buildings in a single bound, and maybe shred a solo while doing it. He’s back to making music as Maxim Ludwig […]
More than a year after they first announced they would be collaborating, Scottish post-punk Franz Ferdinand and long-running L.A. provocateurs Sparks have revealed their first song as FFS. It’s titled “Piss Off,” the first song that brothers Ron and Russell Mael and the gang of Glaswegians — Bob Hardy, Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy and Paul […]
