Running down Thursday’s shows: ► The Gears — who this spring were declared “The Best L.A. Punk Band You Never Heard Of” (quite possibly true) — play the Regent Theater with Legal Weapon on a night that also features a screening of a documentary about the headliner, “Don’t Be Afraid to Pogo.” ► Post-punk-meets-soul rebels […]
If Isaac Rother & the Phantoms aren’t headlining a Halloween party in L.A. this October, somebody’s missing the boat. The Washington state-bred retro-rockers debuted their full-length “The Unspeakable Horror of …” last month, their collection of howling, growling throwback blues imagining the time Screamin’ Jay Hawkins got together with Sam the Sham for a collaboration […]
Pardon us for doing a double-take when we hopped on YouTube to check out the new Girlpool video — the ad leading into the “Magnifying Glass” was almost as long as the clip itself. The exercise in short attention span theater was directed by Craig Scheihing, and it finds the duo of Cleo Tucker and […]
Your Tuesday night agenda: ► San Diego goth/electro/industrial outfit Prayers, whose album “Young Gods” is just out on Travis Barker’s LaSalle Records, celebrate the release with a show at the Roxy, supported by Death March and MXMS. Above, Prayers’ video for the title track. The sold-out show will be webcast here. ► Texas singer-songwriter Robert […]
As part of Grammy-winning Shiny Toy Guns, Jeremy Dawson was at the vanguard of advancing the sleek, synth-fueled sounds of the 1980s into the new millenium, negotiating the turbulent waters of band drama to make three albums of goth-inspired, hyper-emotional electro-rock. The keyboardist’s newest venture with singer Ariel Levitan is MXMS (“me and my shadow”), […]
Starting in April with “Sometimes I Feel So Deserted,” the Chemical Brothers have been teasing “Born in the Echoes” — arriving July 17 — by rolling out a song a month. And today, it’s the anticipated collaboration with St. Vincent, “Neon Light,” which finds singer Annie Clark incantational and rather intoxicating. “Born in the Echoes” is […]
Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Lolipalooza, Until the Ribbons Breaks, Oberhofer, Hunny, Tennis System, the Crash Kings, Tashaki Miyaki, Client Liaison, Prayers, PPL MVR, Little Red Lung, the Vonneguts, the Lonely Wild, Ed Sheeran, Nate Ruess, Bilal, the Very Best, Emily Kinney, the Gears, Bell Biv Devoe, Bad Rabbits, Houndmouth, Vic Mensa, Los Crudos, Algiers, Young […]
Samuel T. Herring and the gang in Future Islands have released your weekend warm-and-fuzzy — it’s a Father’s Day-appropriate video for “A Song For Our Grandfathers,” off the band’s 2014 album “Singles.” Filmed at a family reunion in North Carolina, the video was directed by Jay Buim. And you can send it to pops or […]
In a world that’s so plugged in, it sure is easy to feel disconnected, and the melancholy that springs from a longing for the tactile underpins the debut album from Los Angeles quartet Northern American. “I don’t need to know everything about what you do,” Nate Paul sings on the languid title track. As is […]
“Ooh, how I like the smell of West Coast pheromones,” Noah McBeth sings on the outro to his viral hit (as NoMBe) “California Girls,” which, if nothing else, answers the age-old question “What do pheromones sound like?” (In this case, drunken synths underpinned by pulsing electronic beats.) McBeth, a native of Heidelberg, Germany, and the […]
