By Gabriel Jones It’s been a few years since Beck has toured or put out a new album. He’s grown, raised a couple of kids; we’ve grown and perhaps moved on to other artists. And at Thursday’s show at the Santa Barbara Bowl he and his audience seemed like long-lost lovers who’ve found each other […]
It’s good bet that most young music fans don’t know Redd Kross from the Red Cross from Christopher Cross (Hint: One had a hit your parents held hands to called “Sailing,” and this is not about him.) It’s Redd Kross that resurfaced this week with the news that the band, conceived in the late ’70s […]
Family of the Year still sounds happy. No big news there; with last year’s “St. Croix” EP, the Silver Lake quintet solidified its place in the brigade of local bands trading in exuberant California pop. The bulletin is that FOTY, now signed to Nettwerk, has completed its debut album, “Loma Vista,” which will be released […]
Everything that could go wrong Wednesday night at Robert Francis’ record-release show did. And in a strange way, it made everything go right. For the first chunk of the show at the Troubadour – celebrating this week’s release of the singer-songwriter’s third album, “Strangers in the First Place” – the unconscionably chatty crowd who all […]
Jordan Richardson made a name for himself in L.A. with his rhythms – the native Texan is the drummer for Ben Harper, and before that he manned the kit for local indie-rockers Oliver Future. (He was last spotted on this website participating in the stoner-rock project Epic Ruins.) Between tours of duty with Harper, though, […]
[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 […]
Funeral Club’s mesmerizing new single “Waves & Waves” is the latest slice of folk noir from the partners in tune (and life) Joseph and Jenny Andreotti, who explain that the song was inspired by some of their favorite films. You can certainly hear a little Bergman in Jenny’s plantive vocals and the mournful keys and […]
Death to Anders, the L.A. quartet who through five releases largely adhered to the jagged, dissonant ideal of indie-rock in the 1990s, is going not-so-quietly into the night. “We had a good run, but it’s time to close the chapter on Death to Anders,” frontman Rob Danson said in a Facebook post. “Thank you for […]
[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 […]
Around 2007, the Deadly Syndrome were among the brightest lights on L.A.’s indie-rock horizon, four scruffy dudes who performed sweat-soaked shows with cardboard cutouts of ghosts onstage – a reference to one of their best songs and also symbolic of the quartet’s unspoken maxim that what they were doing (and probably whatever we were, too) […]