Incoming: Everest, Poliça, Neil Diamond, Two Gallants, Anita Baker, Esperanza Spalding, Civil Twilight, Cults, Diana Krall, AM & Shawn Lee, Echo Park Rising and more. Above: Fresh off her remarkable performances supporting Sigur Ros, Julia Holter brings the emotive sound collages on her album “Tragedy” (based on the Greek play “Hippolytus”) to the Echo on […]
Minneapolis-based Poliça (that’s with a soft “c”) might have released one of the most compelling R&B-influenced albums this year, but it’s hard to get over the fact that every syllable lead singer (and Gayngs member) Channy Leaneagh utters is drenched in heavy auto-tune. Together, producer Ryan Olsen, Bon Iver’s Mike Noyce on additional vocals, live […]
Hot night in the city, to dredge up a line: ‣ The Sunset Strip Music Festival goes all-out on the eve of the fifth annual event’s big street festival: X, doing their album “Los Angeles” headlines the Roxy Theatre (Ray Manzarek is X’s special guest, and the Stripminers support). Hank III holds forth at the […]
Audio-engineers-turned-synth-pop-maestros Father Tiger got ambitious with the video for the single “Shell,” off the L.A. duo’s first EP. The clips stitches together more than 5,000 images processed through Instagram (including 400-plus fan submissions), dozens of original pieces of art and a bunch of iPhone footage. It’s the work of director/editor Jeff McHale and artist John […]
Your wonderful Wednesday: ‣ The run of club shows leading up to the Sunset Strip Music Festival gets a little folky at the Roxy tonight, where Honeyhoney – that’s Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe wreaking havoc in their “Angel of Death” video, above – and harmony-toting ensemble Monsters Calling Home performing. ‣ Athens, Ga.’s twangy […]
Post-Britpop trio Animal Kingdom has been making waves with their latest album “The Looking Away” (out now on Boombox and Mom+ Pop) with shimmering songs like “Strange Attractor.” Produced by David Kosten (Bat For Lashes), the record follows up their highly regarded 2009 debut “Signs and Wonders” (produced by Phil Ek, who’s worked with Fleet […]
Your jam-packed Tuesday evening: ‣ We’ll start today’s formidable list with our own small show: Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday monthly songwriter night brings Fort King, College Kids and Doom & Gloom to Lot 1 Cafe. Doors at 9. ‣ Twelve musicians and seemingly a thousand rhythms strong, Afrobeat collective Antibalas visits the Echoplex behind its […]
As a lover of Westerns, spaghetti Westerns and Western omelettes, I am completely riveted by the video for Lord Huron’s “Time to Run” – especially the part at the end when it says “To Be Continued.” The work of Evan Weinerman (who does business as Arms Race), the story, with Indonesian subtitles, tracks our protagonist (he’s […]
Well, isn’t this cute? Husband and wife Jack Dishel (aka Only Son) and Regina Spektor look pretty classy in the video for “Call Them Brothers.” Directed and shot by James Holland using Super 8mm film (additional archival footage was shot by family friend Howard Zuckerman), the happy couple gets a historical tint via photographs and […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Rock the Bells, Grandaddy, the Kills, Alabama Shakes, Michael Kiwanuka, Dead Can Dance, Regina Spektor, Peter Murphy, Neil Diamond, Amadou & Miriam, HoneyHoney, the Henry Clay People, Zola Jesus, Fun., Filter and more. Above: Peter Murphy, the 55-year-old “Godfather of Goth,” recently told the Sunset Strip Music Festival blog that […]
