Incoming: Spindrift, Conway, Mikky Ekko, the Elovay, Kali Uchis, Theophilus London, Dugas, the Kennedy Administration, The New Peter Gabrielz, The Americans, Heaps N Heaps, Turnstile, Dutch Party, Ben Caplan, Nicholas David, Fruition, Old Man Gloom, Tuxedo, Austin Klobe, Low Cut Connie, Brandi Carlile, R5, Galactic, Broods, Leland, Damsel Trash, Eleanor Friedberger, Dorothy, Appendix, Alexz Johnson, […]
Happy Sunday: â–º It’s an all-pop affair at Club Nokia with Fifth Harmony, Jacob Whitesides, Jasmine V and Mahogany Lox. â–º Part Time Punks hosts a night at the Echo with a lineup featuring No Joy, Nightmare Air and Flaamingos. â–º Noah & the Megafauna, Adam Tressler, Lou Pine and Teddy Pushpin all team up […]
Art-pop duo The Controversy released their second album, “Don’t Count on Me,” this month, and it includes the single “Queen of Chinatown,” a heartrending meditation about the double life of a drag queen. The song makes for compelling cinema, too, in the video directed by the band, Laura Vall and Thomas Hjorth, and filmed by […]
While wearing our best white-and-gold dress, we list tonight’s shows: â–º L.A. psych-poppers White Arrows headline the Roxy Theatre, making up a show that was postponed back in January. Say Say, GRMLN and the Entrance Band support. Above, White Arrows’ video for “Nobody Cares,” off their sophomore album “In Bardo.” â–º Dan Deacon plays the […]
Chelan, the long-running collaboration between Jen Grady and Justin Hosford, work out of Joshua Tree, have a visual collaborator in artist Kime Buzzelli (who does the duo’s album art) and take a slightly experimental approach to indie-pop. Their fourth album, the self-released “Equal Under Pressure,” features deft mix of peripatetic rhythms and layered vocals, both […]
Thursday’s music menu: â–º Singer-songwriter Mali Music visits the El Rey Theatre behind his album “Mali Is …,” with KP opening. â–º Caribou begins a three-night run of sold-out shows at the Fonda Theatre. Koreless supports. â–º San Francisco duo Cathedrals play the Echo, supported by Empires, LANY and Rush Midnight. â–º It’s a big […]
Odessa Jorgensen has taken a circuitous route to “Odessa” — the debut album that, it was announced this week, will come out April 28 via Chop Shop/Republic Records. The L.A.-based singer-songwriter, who counts the violin, guitar and a singing voice from heaven as her weapons, was a member of Americana outfits Bearfoot and the Biscuit […]
Oh, the wonders of a Wednesday night: ► Singer-songwriter Adam Bainbridge — aka Kindness — brings his soulful sound to the El Rey Theatre, supporting his latest album “Otherness.” Pell and Angel Deradoorian open. ► Australian electro duo Flight Facilities brings the party to the Fonda Theatre, supported by Touch Sensitive. Above, Flight Facilities’ funny […]
Dorothy — the L.A. quartet of singer Dorothy Martin, guitarist Mark Jackson, bassist Greg Cash and drummer Zac Morris — are at work in the studio recording their full-length debut, and like the free EP the band released last fall, it’s expected to offer more pedal-to-the-metal blues-rock. Like the weird players in the foursome’s new […]
L.A. native Lena Fayre is not yet out of her teens, but she sings like she’s lived three lifetimes of disquietude, alternately woozy and weary, dreamy and hopeful, piquant and playful. Her 2014 album “Oko” displays substantial production sophistication, with its refracted pop, R&B and balladry, and it also suggests Fayre is beyond her years […]
