Hello, Mr. Marr. May we call you Mr. Marr? We suspect you’re not the kind of fellow who goes in for honorifics, but in our mind you’ve more than earned one. We hear that you have a new album called “The Messenger” coming out Feb. 26, and early reviews say it “hearkens back” (the correct […]
We’re not big on lyric videos, but since this one involves a typewriter (!) and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, it’s worth sharing. “Jubilee Street” is from Cave’s forthcoming album “Push the Sky Away,” due Feb. 19. One of a kind. We also note the hole in Cave’s touring schedule in April, so don’t […]
Your massive Monday: ‣ Maximum Hedrum, the new project from Sam Spiegel of N.A.S.A. and Sepultura vocalist Derrick Green, plays its first show at Los Globos. See our December post. ‣ Globetrotting songstress Yael Meyer swings back through L.A. to performa t the Hunnypot Radio night at the Central SAPC along with Matt Jaffe & […]
‣ We have every reason to believe that the performance billed “Looking For Sugarman” at the Hotel Cafe is indeed an appearance by the now-legendary Rodriguez, the 70-year-old singer-songwriter and subject of the award-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.” Later at the Hotel Cafe, the crafty pop-rock quartet Your Futures Lovers plays the late set. […]
Foxygen, the psychedelic duo of Sam France and Jonathan Rado, made a big splash with their “Take the Kids Off Broadway” EP last year, the momentum from which has made their forthcoming full-length “We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic” (out Jan. 22 via Jagjaguwar) one of 2013’s most anticipated albums. Originally […]
Yes, Fonda made the video for its single “Seeing Stars” at the Griffith Observatory. Why not? There’s something pretty astral about the L.A. quartet’s bliss-pop, a well-timed revival of the densely layered guitars of ’90s Britpop. The video even pays brief homage to actually gazing at one’s shoes (where the pedals lay, of course). The […]
Wednesday’s offerings: ‣ Bluesy rockers Rival Sons’ third album “Head Down” has charted in the U.K. and across Europe – Classic Rock magazine, which made “Head Down” its No. 2 album of the year, puts them in pretty good company. They play the Echo along with Night Horse, Lecherous Gaze and Sir Madam. Above, the […]
The self-titled debut last year from the U.K.’s Django Django was a psych-pop gem, melding New Wave and the ’60s in a way that hadn’t quite been done. “Hand of Man” seems almost like an interlude on the album, a gentle, 2 1/2-minute strum, but it shows the enduring power of well-crafted harmonies. The video, […]
Incoming: PAPA, Feeding People, Yellow Alex & the Feelings, Austin Brown, Thorcraft Cobra, Rival Sons, Eric McFadden, Andrew McMahon, Rumours, Sum 41, Taken by Trees, John C. Reilly, Keane, Gregg Allman, Steve Earle & Allison Moorer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Johnathan Rice, the Dan Band, Tycho, Neil Sedaka Above:Â Keane is pretty popular, we hear. The […]
There’s perhaps a tinge of irony in the title of the first single from Hunter Hunted. The duo of Dan Chang and Michael Garner sprang from the ashes of Lady Danville, the UCLA-bred trio that included percussionist Matt Frankel, who departed the band last fall. Never mind the facepaint in the new band photo, though […]
