Incoming: Chvrches, Body Parts, SOHN, Against Me!, Ben Harper, Beth Orton, Deptford Goth, Jessie Ware, Neil Finn, Graham Nash, Alice Glass, Albert Hammond Jr., Polica, the Happy Hollows, Moonface, Norma Jean, Autolux, Drake, John Vanderslice, Prima Donna, Screaming Females, Obits, Over the Rhine, Cayucas, Anthony Green, the Black Crowes, Thomas Dolby, the Handsome Family, EOTO, […]
Saturday stuff: ‣ Chelsea Wolfe plays UCLA’s Royce Hall behind her latest release “Pain Is Beauty, with Anna Calvi opening. ‣ Montreal space-rockers the Besnard Lakes, their fourth album “Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO” having been nominated for a Polaris Music Prize, visit the Bootleg Theater, with Elephant Stone and Exploding Flowers supporting. ‣ Singer-songwriter […]
No matter whether Little Galaxies are into interstellar themes, the Venice-based band does write dream-pop that shimmers like the stars. In fact, the quartet comprised of Jeanna Fournier, Amir Eshraghi, Brian Sumwalt and Adam Yasmin sounds like they sat on the beach for several nights underneath the twinkling sky and studied constellations with guitars in […]
SOHN’s sounds seem entirely appropriate as darkness arrives sooner and the weather gets cold and potentially dreary. Heartbreak, loneliness and isolation seem merely the painful precursors to a creative outpouring for the Vienna-based Englishman, probably resulting in something like “Bloodflows,” his three-song debut for 4AD. That release, in May, saw the accomplished producer and remixer […]
Congrats for making it to Friday: ‣ Jonathan Wilson plays his L.A. makeup show (postponed from last week) for his new album “Fanfare” at the Troubadour. The Blank Tapes open. ‣ Party time at the Shrine Expo Hall when the “Aokify America Tour” brings Steve Aoki, Iggy Azalea, Waka Flocka Flame, Alvin Risk, Keys N […]
Lo-Fang’s evocative early releases, featuring a happy marriage of electro-pop and strings, have made his full-length debut “Blue Fin” one of the most hotly anticipated releases of early 2014. The nom de tune of Washington, D.C., native Matthew Hemerlein, Lo-Fang make music for late nights and date nights, both of which, ostensibly, would involve weighty […]
Somewhere in the depths of the biographical material on Conquistador – beyond the details of his award-winning mustache and his red-carpet shenanigans at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and cameo with Madness at Coachella – there’s a bit about Alexander Antebi’s affection for Todd Rundgren. Which makes two of us. It’s easy to imagine […]
Folk singer Julie Cain – aka Little Lonely – covers a lot of ground on her debut album, weaving homespun Americana, dark pop and even a little girl-group pizzazz into 11 evocative yarns that feel very much like Cain’s Middle America roots. Indeed, Cain’s bio tells us that her first gig was playing organ in a […]
Here’s your Wednesday: ‣ Long-running electro provocateurs Beats Antique play the first of two L.A.-area dates on its “A Thousand Faces” tour, which features an extravagant set and high-tech digital visuals. Tonight, the band visits the Yost Theater in O.C. (On Friday, they’re at the Fonda Theatre.) Above, their animated video for “”Beelzebub feat. Les […]
Morgan Kibby may be mostly known for her major contributions to M83 songs “Kim & Jessie,” “Skin of the Night” and the everlasting “Midnight City,” but now that she’s no longer on tour with Anthony Gonzzlez, her solo project White Sea is taking off again. To follow up 2011’s “This Frontier” EP, Kibby’s released the […]
