Incoming: Sonny Boy Thorn, Beach Party, Soak, Motopony, Sleep State, Calexico, Indigo Girls, Lianne La Havas, Astronauts Etc., Muna, Two Sheds, Spurs, Russell Howard, the Mowgli’s, Landlady, Max and the Moon, Lukas Rossi, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Son Lux, Jurassic 5, Dopapod, Morris Day, Breakestra, Verite, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Frontier Ruckus, Berner, X, […]
Citing 1960s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators to everything that came from Creation Records in the 1990s as their common ground, Talk In Tongues loves big psychedelic music. Out of respect for those crazy performance videos of the past that evoked kaleidoscopic vision, as if the camera itself were on acid, the Los Angeles […]
New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus on July 28 will release its fourth album, “The Most Lamentable Tragedy,” a 93-minute rock opera on manic depression and its various manifestations that ranks as the most epic work of punk rock since Fucked Up’s “David Comes to Life” in 2011. It’s visceral stuff, musically and thematically, and, says singer-songwriter […]
If you thought it got dark on Chelsea Wolfe’s 2013 album “Pain Is Beauty,” wait until you listen while she peeks into the “Abyss.” That’s the title of the goth-metal sorceress’s new album, due Aug. 7 via Sargent House, and it’s a riveting, if unsettling, collection of soundscapes that see-saw from fragile beauty to brawny […]
If like me you’ve only watched the video for Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” two or three times since it landed Tuesday, we’ve got some work to do. It’s a 7-minute action movie-meets-morality tale with a cast of hundreds that must have cost a fortune to shoot (the L.A. portions caused quite a stir). It’s well worth […]
Has it really been 20 years since a then-teenaged Ben Lee released his first solo album? Seem like a long time — but it’s a drop in the bucket to the subjects of his new video for “Big Love.” They are John and Ann Betar, the longest-married couple in the U.S., celebrating their 82nd anniversary […]
So long, June, you just flew by: ► Rap trio Pac Div joins Chuck Inglish for a show at the Echoplex (note that it has been moved from the Regent Theater). ► Australian indie-rockers the Griswolds visit the Troubadour behind their album “Be Impressive” [see “Beware the Dog,” below]. Urban Cone supports. ► It’s Luke […]
Incoming: Smokey Robinson, Fort Minor, the Ceremonies, Crash Kings, Tennis System, Pac Div, Jacco Gardner, Paper Pilots, Luke James, the Griswolds, Helmet, Ballerina Black, Elle King, Honeyhoney, LEX, Laudlin Strangers, Scott Bartenhagen, Western Lows, Otep, Wale, Blue Blazer, Aaron Gillespie, Infected Mushroom, Smokey Robinson, Television, Toe, David Serby, Buyepongo, King Chip, Slander, Blackstreet, Radio Moscow, […]
Tijuana Panthers have given you a little something to jam while cruising around the city this summer with the car windows open. “Front Window Down” is the breezy first single from “POSTER,” the fourth album from the Long Beach trio of Chad Wachtel, Daniel Michicoff and Phil Shaheen. The album, out Aug. 28 via Innovative […]
Released last month, the “Shift” EP found Toronto producer Deebs (aka Will Diebel) and L.A. crooner Jarell Perry teaming up for an intoxicating handful of songs marrying trip-hop and modern soul. “Shift’s” sleek, minimalist feel comes to life in the video for the lead track, “Driving Blind,” thanks to the surreal graphics created by animator […]
