Hunter Hunted, the new indie-pop band masterminded by ex-Lady Danville bandmates Dan Chang and Michael Garner, made its proper debut on Tuesday night at the Troubadour, regaling a sold-out room with two-, three-, four- and even five-part harmonies that made for big sing-alongs. The duo has assembled a live band that includes Alina Cutrono and […]
Ex-Mellowdrone main man Jonathan Bates unveiled his experimental project Big Black Delta two springs ago, wielding a ferocious light saber (well, actually, today’s laptop technology) to transform 1980s influences into music that makes you feel as if you have four ears. His limited-released “BBDLP1” was one of our favorite albums of 2011, although it turns […]
The Record Company’s sweat-’n’-booze blues has found an ardent following in Chris Vos’ adopted home of Los Angeles. The Wisconsin-bred singer guitarist and bandmates Alex Wood and Marc Cazorla have released an EP of originals, an EP of covers and, improbably, induced Silver Lake crowds to dance and sing along to Freddy Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie,” […]
The fusillade of synths and beats on the new EP from Glow Marrow is no reason to duck and cover. On the contrary, it’s best to let them just wash over you, parse their intricacies and accelerate your world. The L.A. duo of Derek Coburn and Darin Green, pals since they were wee lads in […]
All those jangling, rapturously harmonized guitars on the new Fonda album “Sell Your Memories” can make you feel as if you’re flying. Or just twirling slowly, as the languid number “She Is Real” does. Director David Butow sequences cityscapes, cloudscapes and images of personal escapes to accompany the boy/girl musings of David Klotz and Emily […]
If you fell in love with Fitz & the Tantrums in 2009 for their retro charm, your heart might ache a little bit over the L.A. outfit’s new single “Out of My League.” As frontman Michael Sean Fitzpatrick indicated in the interview we published last week, the band’s new music fast-forwards to the 1980s on […]
What? There’s a new Postal Service song, you say? The long-dormant collaboration between Benjamin Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello awakens from its slumber this spring with reunion shows – and the 10-year anniversary re-release (on April 9, via Sub Pop) of their album “Give Up.” On the release, there are two new songs, each featuring jenny […]
Note: Tickets are on sale now – use the access code CWKFOLD. Cold War Kids, their fourth album “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts” en route April 2, are playing the Bootleg Theater on Wednesday. A limited number of tickets will go on sale online here at 10 a.m. today, but the bulk of the tickets will be […]
With the Grammys on the horizon, there certainly wasn’t a shortage of star-studded lineups for any shows on Friday night. But the Converse Rubber Tracks live event put on by Filter at the Satellite was on the top of many people’s list: L.A.’s own Fool’s Gold played an unbelievable set for a house that was […]
The allure of Amy Blaschke’s Americana is in the details – her fragile voice at once exuding strength and vulnerability, lyrical moments that work like weathered photographs, spare arrangements that let her songs breathe. Blaschke, a Seattle native who last released an album in 2007 (under the name Night Canopy), returns this month with “Desert Varnish,” […]
