[Apologies for the late-arriving daily post. Something about being out late last night …] Andy Clockwise closes out a year of winning over L.A. crowds by headlining Spaceland; Marvelous Toy and Globes on Remote support. … It’s the Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band [pictured] at the Echo, with Spirit Vine among the openers. … Big […]
Music doesn’t feel so much like a business to Evan Slamka these days, and the Los Angeles singer-songwriter likes it just fine. With his new quintet Square on Square, Slamka has emerged from three-plus years of personal reflection and creative regeneration that followed the dissolution of Majorie Fair, which released one excellent album (“Self Help […]
[Happy birthday to Nelly Furtado … Happy club-hopping to all my favorite people:] Gee, where shall I begin tonight’s show rundown? Shamelessly, I will note that tonight is the Decembering With Buzz Bands LA show at the Echo [click on flyer at right for info; RSVP list closes at 3:30], featuring Square on Square (9 […]
Kavin Sandhu’s music might be all volleys and daggers, booze and swagger, but take him out of his native England and station him in Los Angeles for a year, and he’s more than a little bit wonder-struck. “It really does inspire me on a day-to-day basis,” the singer-guitarist and architect of the rock band KAV […]
[Birthday greeting today go out to Mat Kearney … Here’s tonight’s rather light schedule:] Vic Chesnutt, whose new album “Skitter on Take-Off” (produced by Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkin) came out in November [download below], headlines the Echoplex. He’ appearing with Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, as well as members of Godspeed You Black Emperor and Silver […]
Only a couple of years ago, Michael Bauer was making music to feed his twentysomething angst. Now, fronting the L.A. quartet Useless Keys, he’s making music that mirrors our unsettling times. “John Lennon said art should be a reflection of the time period you live in, and I think what we’re doing now does,” Bauer […]
[Holy Thanksgiving leftovers, it’s almost December. And happy birthday, Steve Aoki …] The fun folks at Buddyhead are throwing a party at the Hotel Cafe, and the loaded lineup looks like this: Imaad Wasif, Dios, Olin and the Moon and Mini Mansions, among others. … Seasons, whose song “The Weight” will be somewhere near the […]
Three years ago, weary from touring and wan from the chasm separating their dreams and reality, Jim Evens and his bandmates in L.A. trio Helen Stellar decided to take a little break. They’d just had a song in the Cameron Crowe movie “Elizabethtown” and released “A Prayer to Myself,” a compilation of their first three […]
[Everything digested? Here’s how to burn off the calories this weekend …] Tonight: Julian Casablancas, doing his different-strokes solo project [review 1 and 2], winds up his residency at the Downtown Palace Theatre, with local quintet Haim opening. Danielle Haim plays in Casablancas’ band too. … Vancouver garage rockers Japandroids visit the Echo, with Surfer […]
[Happy birthday to Tim Armstrong. Tonight’s pre-holiday schedule is light but still promising …] You can think of tonight’s shows downtown as a way of working up your appetite for Thursday – Simian Mobile Disco, brings its ear-bending synth-rock and eye-popping light show to the Mayan Theatre. The U.K. duo’s newest album is aptly titled […]
