Wymond Miles, who is also known as lead guitarist of San Francisco’s the Fresh & Onlys, has churned out another solo album titled “Cut Yourself Free” to follow up last year’s “Under the Pale Moon.” Just in time to kick off his new tour with Crocodiles, Miles released a video for “Night Drives.” Sticking to […]
Great things on a Thursday: ‣ Mazzy Star, back with “Seasons of Your Day,” the band’s first album since 1996 headlines the Wiltern Theatre. ‣ The Gaslamp Killer plays a special show at the Mayan Theatre – it’s a fundraiser for the L.A. producer, born William Benjamin Bensussen, who still faces hefty medical bills after […]
‣ Australian rockers Atlas Genius do it up right at the Wiltern, where they are joined by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Detroit band who last month released their sophomore album “The Speed of Things.” That’s their video for “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t On The Dancefloor),” above. ‣ Blink-182 bring their […]
Since their formation in 2009, Tic Tic Boom! has changed sound palettes and, most recently, members in their lineup (their newest member is drummer Joey Ponchetti). However, Leilani Francisco and Mike DeLay are certainly hitting their stride with the latest sonic shift to electro-pop. In fact, they’re preparing for the release of their new “It’s the Heart […]
The Melodic might be a very presumptively named band, but the moniker is not innacurate. The South London quintet, which started as a songwriting collaboration between Huw Williams and Rudi Schmidt and grew to include, John Naldrett, Lydia Samuels and James McCandless, make stripped-down folk interlaced with Afro and Caribbean rhythms. Their album “Effra Parade” […]
The star of the video for “Big Star” – the soaring single off Juliette Commagere’s dreamy third album “Human” – is the singer-songwriter’s niece, Hana Commagere-Hagen. It was filmed in part at Laguna Beach, and, Commagere says, “I made all the costumes, my father shot it, and it was edited by my dear friend Max Goldblatt.” […]
Singer-guitarist Kristen Gundred – aka Dee Dee Penny of Dum Dum Girls – has proven that songwriting and innovation triumph over mere aping of garage-rock and girl-group stylings from the past. Both the full-length “Only In Dreams” and “End of Daze” EPÂ made our year-end lists for 2011 and 2012, respectively, and it sounds like the […]
Mondo Monday: ‣ Desaparecidos – that’s the punk band fronted by Conor Oberst, which last released a full-length in 2002 – headlines the Fonda Theatre, with South Bay punk rockers Joyce Manor opening. ‣ Deerhoof brings the noise to the Echoplex, where LXMP and Bogan Via support. ‣ Ex-Elefant frontman Diego Garcia visits the Troubadour […]
Incoming: Desaparecidos, Charli XCX, Deerhoof, Diego Garcia, Geographer, Teen Daze, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Bolts, the Lonely Forest, Destroyer, Meat Puppets, Switchfoot, Atlas Genius, Blink 182, Selena Gomez, the Parson Red Heads, Blitzen Trapper, Crocodiles, Mazzy Star, the Gaslamp Killer, Those Darlins, Tired Pony, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Jonathan Wilson, GZA, the Lonely […]
There’s running and jumping and skipping and dancing and marching and climbing and parkour and, yes, even some walking in director Warren Kommers’ video for Fitz & the Tantrums’ single “The Walker.” The song, intended as a homage to the legendary “Silver Lake Walker,” Dr. Marc Abrams, who died three years ago, becomes daytime disco […]
