Saturday things: ‣Â HARD Day of the Dead kicks off its 2-day festival with Skrillex, Nero, Boys Noize, Them Jeans and more at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. ‣ Two Door Cinema Club kicks off a night of electro-pop with Capital Cities and St. Lucia as support at the Greek Theatre. ‣ Johnny Marr stops […]
Coming from two of Janelle Monae’s collaborators, the music of Deep Cotton is, not surprisingly, rather giddily all over the map – eccentric pop and punk and funk with a defiant sensibility even as it smilingly skips down the road toward musical comedy. It’s the work of Chuck Lightning and Nate Wonder, who with Monae co-founded […]
Tonight in L.A.: The 1975, Deftones, the Moody Blues, Kanye West, Bernhoft, the Sadies, Nobunny, Dax Riggs, the Soul of John Black, Gram Rabbit, Save Ferris, the Neighbourhood, the Avengers
Here’s what’s up on the first Friday of a new month: ‣ Manchester pop quartet The 1975 visit the Fonda Theatre behind its self-titled album, released in September. Linus Young opens. That’s the 1975’s cheeky video for “Girls,” above. ‣ It’s a night of hard stuff at the Greek Theatre, with Deftones, whose most recent […]
We are not fans of Halloween, unless you are under the age of 14 and have a sweet tooth, or are charged with shepherding small humans under the age of 14 who have a sweet tooth. We have trouble enough dressing up as ourselves, I guess. Anyway, it’s Oct. 31 and Bleached made a Halloween […]
The new album from O.C. four-piece Audacity is rather ironically titled. “Butter Knife,” the quartet is calling it, and it’s easy to counter with the statement that the album (out this week via Suicide Squeeze) is sharper than that. Unless we’re miscounting, “Butter Knife” is Audacity’s third full-length since last July, this one more fully […]
Kiwi band the Naked and Famous didn’t have trouble keeping the momentum once they released their smash hit “Young Blood” off their debut “Passive Me, Aggressive You” back in 2011. Singles such as “Punching in a Dream” kept fans of electronica, post-punk and dream-pop near before they launched into songs like “Hearts On Fire” off of […]
In conceiving Best Coast’s new video for the song “I Don’t Know,” frontwoman Bethany Cosentino says she was going for something “super fun and L.A.-inspired without doing anything at the beach like so many of our videos.” So director Patrick O’Dell convened at a Sun Valley skate park, where, Cosentino says, “I got to hang […]
Oh, it’s Halloween? ‣ Arcade Fire plays the Hollywood Palladium behind the new album “Reflektor.” ‣ Australian duo Empire of the Sun, joined by Alpine, bring their big electro shoe to the Shrine Auditorium. Empire of the Sun’s latest album “Ice on the Dune” came out in June, and that’s the video for “DNA,” above. […]
It’s been a while since we heard from Young the Giant, and oh boy, their new direction might surprise you if you were were a fan of their pop-rock hits such as “Apartment,” “Cough Syrup” and “My Body” off their self-titled debut. On their new single, “It’s About Time,” their beachy, laid-back pop vibe has […]
To celebrate the release of their debut full-length “Fire Dream,” Body Parts releases a David Seger- and Aaron Moles-directed video where actress Daniele Watts (“Django Unchained”) goes though a roller coaster of emotions and dreams. Its quirky splices of sci-fi elements and dance moves by the group’s core members Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono make it […]
