It’s been a rip-roaring 2013 for the Record Company, one of a handful of emerging L.A. bands seemingly hellbent on bringing vintage blues to the jaded indie masses. Chris Vos, Alex Stiff and Marc Cazorla played a ton of small shows, and some big ones, and released a follow-up EP to 2012’s “Superdead.” The new […]
Your show options for 12-12-13: ‣ Washington, D.C., indie veterans the Dismemberment Plan – back with the new album “Uncanny Valley,” their first in 12 years – play the Fonda Theatre. Telekinesis opens. ‣ Long-running funk explorers the Greyboy Allstars do the first of two nights at the Mint; their first studio album in six years, […]
Soul dynamo Sharon Jones, on the rebound after a bout with pancreatic cancer, has a new album on the way in January. It’s titled “Give the People What They Want,” the fifth full-length from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. In between engaging in a little social media about her recovery and new release, Jones has […]
Happy Wednesday: ‣ Banks brings her sensual R&B to the a sold-out Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in support of her “London” EP. That’s her video for “This Is What It Feels Like” above. ‣ The Fonda has a night of pop-rock with the Maine, Anberlin, Lydia and From Indian Lakes. ‣ The Mowgli’s, Hunter Hunted […]
7 Days of Funk, the collaboration of Dam-Funk and newly christened Snoopzilla, released their debut self-titled album today via Stones Throw Records, and mark the occasion with a new video for their song “Hit Da Pavement.” Following the “to be continued…” first video for the track “Faden Away,” we pick up the adventures of Dam […]
For about four years now, Band of Skulls have been putting the power in “power trio” – one of the few contemporary purveyors of vintage muscle that outstrips ’70s obsessions and avoid wallowing in mimicry. The triumvirate of Matt Hayward, Emma Richardson and Russel Marsden are showing no signs of exhaustion, either, judging from the […]
Tuesday’s concert options: ‣ The Head and the Heart, who played a sold-out show at the Wiltern last week, return to the venue for another date tonight behind their new album “Let’s Be Still.” ‣ Dam-Funk and Snoopzilla celebrate their album release at Exchange LA. ‣ San Diego folk-rockers the Silent Comedy headline the Troubadour, supported […]
The new L.A. quintet Owenstone is the vision of singer-guitarist Nathan Owen, whose crooning vocals and theatricality are the calling cards of the band’s straight-ahead rock. Owen – joined by guitarist-keyboardist Anthony Marks, bassist Erik Halsey, multi-purpose player Adriano Martin and drummer Gerry Doot – has been recording with producer Mick Smiley (he of the […]
Incoming: Alt 98.7 Rooftop Party, Holychild, Lissie, Freedy Johnston, Jay Z, Emilie Autumn, Brian Posehn, Brand New, Tapioca & the Flea, the Head and the Heart, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Climbers, the Silent Comedy, Samantha Pearl, the Olms, the Maine, the Mowgli’s, Merle Haggard, Banks, Basia Bulat, Realities, the Visitors, Ari Hest, Third Eye […]
‣ KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas weekend continues with Arcade Fire [that’s their video above for “Afterlife”], Phoenix, the Neighbourhood, Capital Cities, Lorde, Portugal. The Man, Fitz & the Tantrums, Atlas Genius and Bastille, at the Shrine Auditorium ‣ Pehrspace hosts Gurrilla Fest, which has a lineup featuring HOTT MT, Clear Plastic, Dark Furs, Kat Kong, L.A. […]
