Sometimes you just need to laugh. In two languages. Nous Non Plus makes highly irreverent (and just as catchy) French pop music, circa the 1960s, and their third album, “Freudian Slip,” released last fall, is a hoot. Very little gets lost in translation at the hands of the band who have fake French names to […]
Kicking off Grammy weekend … ‣ Dr. Dog plays the Orpheum behind its new album “Be the Void.” That’s the Philadelphia outfit’s video for “That Old Black Hole,” above. ‣ Spindrift brings its spaghetti Western psychedelia to the Satellite, celebrating 10-plus years, four albums, movies scores and more with a night full of special guests. […]
Your jam-packed Thursday itinerary: ‣ Its new album “Blues Funeral” just out, the Mark Lanegan Band [praises sung earlier this week] headlines the Echoplex. ‣ Brooklyn electro-pop outfit Class Actress – the brainchild of producers Mark Richardson and Scott Rosenthal and singer Elizabeth Harper, headline the Echo behind their recent release “Rapprocher.” That’s Harper and […]
Nobody told the Darkness the joke was over. The cartoonish Brits found more than 720,000 saps customers for their 2003 debut “Permission to Land” (it sold 1.3 million in the U.K.) before going quietly into the booze- and drug-filled night, its second album face-planting at 100,000 in sales and frontman Justin Hawkins ending up in […]
Your Wednesday fare: ‣ Coldplay, with three Grammy nominations from its fifth album “Mylo Xyloto” visits Club Nokia for a Clear Channel-sponsored benefit show that helps out two Los Angeles-based youth charities, A Place Called Home and Youth Mentoring Connection. ‣ Acclaimed Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson performs at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery; […]
This should surprise no one who’s followed U.K. trio Band of Skulls since they arrived on this shores in 2009: Their new album “Sweet Sour” is a scorcher. Out today via iTunes (and next week in general release), the follow-up to “Baby Darling Doll Face Honey” flexes every muscle a power trio can. Guitarist Russell […]
The epic pop jam of Shadow Shadow Shade turns to jelly a little bit in the latest song from the Los Angeles sextet, “Maybe I Could Love.” The band’s 2010 debut album was described in turns as cinematic and “poperatic” – a rousing indie cocktail of Queen, Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd and the Mamas and […]
Mauro Remiddi may not be a new name if you’ve followed his days of scoring short films in the late ’90s or if you were a fan of British indie pop band Sunny Day Sets Fire. However, Remiddi is currently gaining a following on his own for releasing music under the moniker Porcelain Raft. After […]
First Monday of a new month, and you know what that means: new residencies. But first: ‣ Youngblood Hawke, Lady Danville, Useless Keys and Yellow Red Sparks team up for a Pablove Foundation benefit at the Satellite, whose February residents, Milo Greene, don’t get started until next Monday. Above is the video for Youngblood Hawke’s […]
Get More: OK Go, Needing/Getting, Music, More Music Videos OK Go takes to the road – OK, the off-road – for their latest video shenanigans. The quartet, known for wildly imaginative and and intricately choreographed videos involving treadmills, dogs, Rube Goldberg machines and colorful jumpsuits, becomes an instrument of Chevrolet in director Brian Perkins’ video […]
