[One sentence or so, over and out …] The roster at Anti- Records gets even more eclectic with today’s news of the signing of Dead Man’s Bones, the project of Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling and fellow actor Zach Shields, whose debut album (produced by Ima Robot’s Tim Anderson) will come out Oct. 6. (Click on image […]
The Buzz Bands show on Little Radio is going on a short summer break – no program this week or next. I’ll be back on the Interwebs on Friday, July 17. Meanwhile, after the jump, last week’s playlist:
The Honorary Title has filled the last open slot in the “Kick Out the Clots: A Benefit for Jennifer Tefft” show at the Echo and Echoplex on Thursday night. I’ve updated the original post with the new set times. ‣ Done, gone: Now that his long-in-the-works deal with Atlantic Records is officially done, Robert Francis […]
Seems like Spaceland talent buyer Jennifer Tefft has been a fixture on Silver Lake scene since before there was a Silver Lake scene. She’s worked with thousands of bands along the way, and now some are rallying to help her raise funds to defray the daunting costs of medication for her ongoing battle with blood […]
Pablo Castelaz, the 6-year-old son of Dangerbird Records founder Jeff Castelaz and Jo Ann Thrailkill, died Saturday after a long battle with bilateral Wilm’s Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer. If you knew Pablo, or rooted and prayed for him as you followed his travails on the family’s PABLOg!, it was impossible not to […]
Michael Jackson, the pop icon who was plotting a major comeback after several years of personal and legal woes, died today at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The reclusive star was 50. The L.A. Times has extensive coverage. Jackson, who arrived in the public conscious in the late 1960s as a kid singer with the […]
Sky Saxon [at right], frontman of the 1960s garage rockers the Seeds, died today in an Austin, Texas, hospital at age 63. Spinner has an obituary.
The beats go on — and gets better — for L.A. dance-pop collective Fool’s Gold. The 12-member ensemble, who rendered audiences fairly giddy during their April residency at the Echo, has signed with L.A.-based indie IAMSOUND Records, home to such artists as Little Boots, Telepathe and Suckers. Fool’s Gold’s self-titled debut will be released Sept. […]
Add another name to the lineup for the Sunset Junction Street Fair – breakout San Diego folk-rockers Delta Spirit [pictured]. The quintet, who supported the Shins on their recent tour and also played Bonnaroo, is still making hay with its twice-released (once by themselves, then last year by Rounder) debut “Ode to Sunshine.” They join […]
The long North American tour recently announced by breakout rockers the Airborne Toxic Event will be an all-Los Angeles affair. Red Cortez, the local quartet [Harley Prechtel-Cortez, pictured] whose soulful blues-rock stamped them as one of SoCal’s most promising up-and-comers when the band emerged under the name the Weather Underground, will join the Henry Clay […]
