Long-running indie-rockers Spoon are back. After a four-year layoff – during which Britt Daniel engaged in Divine Fits – Spoon played the Governors Ball over the weekend and did a special gig for NPR on Monday, during which they unveiled “Rent I Pay” from their forthcoming album (their eighth) “They Want My Soul.” the album will […]
Oh, the vagaries of making music around a “day job.” Of course, guitarist Josh Klinghoffer’s day job is making music – only with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, leaving his personal passion project, Dot Hacker, relegated to filling in the cracks in his schedule. Klinghoffer, joined by Clint Walsh, Jonathan Hischke and Eric Gardner, has […]
Like a lot of experimental rockers, new L.A. trio Guides dally in textures and tones, but in their abrasive riffage and pummeling rhythms lay a sense of purpose that make you question your comfortable notion of “pretty.” The music is the work of singer-guitarist Chris Cogswell, bassist Be Hussey and drummer Jayson Larson, who, among […]
Got plans Saturday night? Chinatown Summer Nights kicks off its monthly series in a big way, bringing six bands to the LA Weekly Live Music Stage and KCRW DJs Travis Holcombe and Mario Cotto to the dance stage in the Central Plaza. The festival’s other attractions include artisan displays, “Big Draw LA” (participatory art), food […]
Add San Fernando Valley-based Camcorder to the long, long list of Los Angeles bands with an Anglophile streak a mile wide. The popgazing on Camcorder’s five-song sophomore EP “Presence” echoes with the DNA of bands such as Ride, the Jesus & Mary Chain and Chapterhouse, and some of their SoCal descendents like Medicine and the […]
Moke Hill, the songwriting collaboration between Detroit natives Ben Berry and Drew Phillips, has followed up February’s debut EP with a new single. The duo, abetted in the studio by Chris Reynolds, Tim Hutton and Dash Hutton, have found a sweet spot with their earnest, straight-ahead pop-Americana, and “Future” ponders with the future without going […]
Pop provocateur Andy Clockwise, who has dropped the given name is now just going by Clockwise, continues to make music that goes anywhere and everywhere. The title track of his forthcoming EP “Dancing World” posits that you can stay home and read poetry and mope or join all the lovelies at the club and find […]
Young L.A. quartet Bad Suns made a splash last spring by dropping a stone-cold radio hit that people who don’t listen to the radio could love, “Cardiac Arrest.” Everything the foursome of Christo Bowman, Miles Morris, Gavin Bennett and Ray Libby has done since – including becoming a live force and releasing their debut EP […]
Garage-rockers the Futures League came on the radar last year with self-titled EP full of crisp guitars, sunny melodies and carefree attitude. That EP has now been taken down from Bandcamp and retooled as a new EP, appropriately (considering its tone) titled “Don’t Be a Drag.” The new release, out next week, features three songs […]
Wild Awake is the new band helmed by Brijesh Pandya, the drummer for funk/jazz/R&B revivalists Air Life, among other bands. The EP Pandya has made with mates Sherman Pascoe, Antonio Dangond and Blake Estrada couldn’t be farther from Air Life’s sleek ’80s stylings, and it belies Pandya’s background in jazz studies at Cal State Northridge. […]
