Not sure how comforting the barren interior of a skydiving plane would be with Jack Black as your coach, especially with a tab of acid on your tongue, but OFF!‘s new music video for “Over Our Heads” offers a pretty accurate indication. As the blood, gore and wilderness adventure ensues, the punk track thrashes along […]
As we noted earlier this week in introducing the first two songs from Lady Low, the L.A. trio’s string-drenched cover of the Vibrators’ 1977 single “Baby Baby” managed to take an old song and make it sound even more retro. The new video from animator Scott Shelden works as well as the song’s arrangement. Inspired […]
Quite a Wednesday we have in store for you: ‣ Stellar lineup of L.A. bands at the Troubadour – indie-soul outfit Caught a Ghost is joined by In the Valley Below, Paper Pilots and Decorator. ‣ British singer-songerwiter Jamie T – back after about five years off the grid – headlines the Roxy Theatre behind his new […]
Utah ex-pats Spencer Petersen and Thomas Carroll have a wealth of musical ideas, and as the core duo of L.A.-based quartet Sego they have packaged them smartly in their debut EP, “Wicket Youth.” Art-punk, dream-pop, lo-fi indie – they’re all wedged into a thrill-a-minute five songs. If the agit-rock guitars don’t get you, the slacker vocals […]
New month, new week … here’s Monday: ‣ Ben Watt, the longtime electronic music provocateur and one-half of the duo Everything But Girl, headlines the Troubadour behind his new solo album “Hendra” – which 31 years after his first solo album returns to his folk roots. Get there early for Itasca. ‣ His second album […]
Incoming: Alex Clare, Ben Watt, Michael Franti, Kissing Cousins, Girlpool, the Black & the White, the Sunset Drifters, Mereki, Cass McCombs, Gateway Drugs, Joomanji, Dance Gavin Dance, Caught a Ghost, Jamie T, Jonathan Richman, Molotov, Mickey Avalon, Ryan Bingham, Angel Solsen, Say Hi, Act As If, Animal Games, Sarah McLachlan, Christopher Owns, Avi Buffalo, Ryan […]
Now that Thanksgiving and Black Friday have passed – today is “Small Business Saturday,” so get thee out to your neighborhood retailer – we feel comfortable sharing what is already our favorite holiday album in quite some time. It’s the Living Sisters’ “Harmony Is Real: Songs for a Happy Holiday,” a 12-song sugar cookie of holiday-themed […]
What’s up, Saturday? How are things? ‣ Fleetwood Mac returns for a second night at the Forum. ‣ Punk quartet OFF! rocks the Echo behind their most recent album “Wasted Years,” supported by NASA Space Universe and Gay Kiss. ‣ L.A.-via-Texas folkies Jamestown Revival [see this week’s news] do the first of two nights at […]
Anybody who’s witnessed Harry Hayes’ wild-eyed antics and spastic dance moves in concert has to conclude there’s a party going on inside the Irontom singer’s head. The video for the L.A. quintet’s new song “The Minista” takes you there. It starts in black-and-white with the band performing, and then with surrealistic splashes of paint and […]
Is it some kind of special Friday, or what? ‣ Reunited Fleetwood Mac does the first of two nights at the Forum. ‣ Ariel Pink headlines the Regent Theater behind his new album “Pom Pom,” with Secret Circuit opening. Above, the Grant Singer-directed video for “Picture Me Gone.” ‣ Canadian indie-rockers Alvvays [see “Archie, Marry […]
