Incoming: Cibo Matto, Sleeper Agent, Kaiser Chiefs, Kins, Lucinda Williams, Lemon Sun, the Last Internationale, Charlie Greene, Mark Mulcahy, Sharon Corr, Decoded, Early Winters, Dr. Dog, Lord Huron, Restavrant, Kodaline, AC Slater, Xemia Rubinos, the Wailers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Record Company, Capital Cities, Morgan Page, Toni Braxton, the Haden Triplets, Okapi Sun, Com […]
Here’s to a wild Wednesday: ‣ Brooklyn trio New Politics hedlines the Troubadour, supported by Magic Mag and Sleeper Agent. That’s the band’s video for “Tonight You’re Perfect,” above. ‣ L.A. rockers Kiven celebrate the release of their self-titled album with a show at Los Globos, supported by Night Riots and the Epilogues. ‣ London […]
That sweeping intro of “Forever Found” still sends us careening into a contemplative happy place, going on two years after the band then known as Oren Lyons debuted it. The Los Angeles septet now goes by Kan Wakan, of course, and the title track of the debut EP released in November remains deeply resonant in […]
Welcome to February and its first wicked busy Monday: ‣ Baltimore electro-pop band Future Islands, recently signed to 4AD and with the album “Singles” coming in March, plays a sold-out shows at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. That’s the video for “Seasons (Waiting on You),” above. ‣ Moses Sumney heads up a special […]
Bhavana Reddy’s debut EP is titled “Tangled in Emotions,” and its sonic roots are a tangle too, of her Indian heritage and contemporary pop artists such as Fiona Apple and Kimbra. The daughter of renowned Kuchipudi dancers Drs. Raja and Radha Reddy and a dancer herself, Bhavana derives her melodies from the ragas of Indian […]
Get in the spirit: ‣ Bust out your most hideous holiday knitwork, the Christmas Sweater Festival is back. Blues-rock duo Deap Vally [pictured] headlines the benefit for the Pablove Foundation, going off at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Western Lows, Boardwalk, Heaven and Crash. Ugliest Christmas sweater wins. ‣ Instrumental rock marvels El Ten Eleven […]
It’s Black Friday, but not a bleak Friday, at least concert-wise: ‣ How about some dubstep to burn off all those calories you gained Thursday? Sure, why not: Rusko headlines the Palladium. Probably more interesting is an appearance by veteran jungle/drum-and-bass producer Roni Size [pictured] who once upon a time (1997) won the Mercury Music […]
Not to get too redundant here, because we just touted the title track barely two weeks ago, but we’re treating next week’s release of LA Font’s “Diving Man” as a moral imperative transported from most of what we embraced in the 1990s. The full album is streaming over at Noisey, but we twisted an arm […]
A very indie Tuesday: ‣ Indie-rock quartet the Lonely Forest [pictured] play the Bootleg Bar behind their new Chris Walla-produced “Adding Up the Wasted Hours,” with Cumulus supporting. ‣ San Francisco folk-elecronic trio Geographer headlines the Echoplex, supported by Royal Bangs. ‣ Cymbals Eat Guitars bring their ’90s-flavored indie-rock tot he Satellite, with Mrs. Magician […]
There’s running and jumping and skipping and dancing and marching and climbing and parkour and, yes, even some walking in director Warren Kommers’ video for Fitz & the Tantrums’ single “The Walker.” The song, intended as a homage to the legendary “Silver Lake Walker,” Dr. Marc Abrams, who died three years ago, becomes daytime disco […]
