With its remote locale and lush greenery, the video for Cayucas’ ebullient single “Moony Eyed Walrus” recalls the L.A. band’s original name, Oregon Bike Trails. Director Nolan Wilson Goff actually filmed the video in Big Sur’s Limekiln State Park, north of Cayucos, the band’s namesake town. It finds twins Zach and Ben Yudin in search […]
Your Tuesday show options: ► The Weepies [more here] play the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Sirens,” with the Silent War supporting. ► Sweden’s Seinabo Sey visits the El Rey Theatre behind her strong debut, “For Madeleine,” with L.A. trio James Davis opening. That’s Sey’s vidieo for “Younger,” above. ► Joseph Arthur’s new album […]
The Weepies’ new album “Sirens” sees the husband-and-wife duo of Deb Talan and Steve Tannen returning with their first release since 2010 — and their first since Talan’s bout with breast cancer, which was pronounced as in remission one year ago this week. Like their first four records, “Sirens” is candlelight-intimate folk-pop, as tender and […]
Gypsy folk band Herbert Bail Orchestra has a go-big-or-go-home attitude. From theatrical live shows, coordinated old-time outfits, and a speakeasy-inspired sound, nothing they do is understated. The band’s new single “You Are Beautiful” has it all. Its train-shuffling rhythm blooms and sprawls into an orchestral landscape pulled to crescendo with horns, accordion, keys, strings, and […]
A very happy Monday to you: ► Resurgent D’Angelo & the Vanguard visit Club Nokia behind their acclaimed 2014 album “Black Messiah.” Meg Mac supports. ► The Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop, whose latest solo album “The Republic” continues his explorations in modular synths, plays the Hotel Café on a night that also features Panabrite, […]
Incoming: Playboy Jazz Festival, LA Pride Festival, D’Angelo, Tennis System, Hunny, Crash Kings, Sam Prekop, Scavenger Hunt, Sheppard, the Noogies, Making Movies, Dustin Kensrue, the Weepies, Seinabo Sey, Whitesnake, Joseph Arthur, Drenge, Wardell, Broken Arrows, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Tyler Lyle, the Kooks, A.R. Rahman, Sam Outlaw, Hexes, Holychild, Cosmonauts, In the Whale, Ray Wylie Hubbard, […]
Choral music can make a person feel wretched. There’s just no way humanity can compete with the wholesome, heavenly, virtuous experience of 25 beautiful harmonizing voices, especially when the singers smile shyly the way the girls do in the Silver Lake Chorus “Hold Up For” music video. Surely it was this precious gooey sensation that […]
It’s Friday, so act like it: ► It’s the Natural History Museum’s final First Fridays of 2015, and Hanni El Khatib, Avid Dancer and Chicano Batman team up for a special show. Above, Hanni El Khatib’s new video for the single “Melt Me.” ► The Rentals’ “Lost in Alphaville” tour comes to the Rel Rey […]
Starting over can test the mettle of any creative, but working from a clean slate with a fresh perspective often yields remarkable results. And so it is with Sun Drug, the L.A. quartet of Steven Wilkin, Collin Desha, Taylor Brown and Cameron Dmytryk. They were four-fifths of Vanaprasta, whose heady 2011 album “Healthy Geometry” and […]
ISLES are a new L.A. outfit using a not-so-new formula for commercial exposure: gleaming pop combined with workaday hip-hop. The band features the vocal talents of singer Olivia May and rapper Casey Bisetti, along with Daniel Braunstein (guitar), Adam Elzarou (bass), Matt Barreca (drums) and AJK (samples). Their first single “Home Again” is a ready-for-radio […]
