What a Wednesday night you have in store: ‣ The Kooks play the first of two nights at the Music Box behind their new album “Junk of the Heart.” Yawn opens. ‣ Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge bring their co-headlining tour to Club Nokia. ‣ Resurgent L.A. quartet the Jealous Sound [see “Your Eyes […]
Nobody in these parts quite sounds like Big Moves, the L.A. quintet that ties jazzy sophistication and punk energy into stylish knot and adorns it with a bow of Jess Imme’s powerful vocals. They set the bar high with their 2008 album “In the Beginning,” and their “Lanterns” EP earlier this year demonstrated that Imme, […]
The Sharp Ease burned brightly and went away too quickly. They released a batch of memorable art-punk in 2006 – memorable, I say, because I’m always asked about “Remain Instant” when it comes up in indie-rock DJ sets – and went loudly into the night in 2007 with a show at the Smell, recounted here. […]
A night in Hollywood to spin you around: ‣ The RSVP-only It’s a School Night at Bardot is starting the new month off strong – Daniel Lanois & Rocco DeLuca, great at the Satellite a few weeks ago, headline, and L.A.’s Bleached will rock it too. Deluca, it was just announced today, has signed to 429 […]
No sooner had we digested all the dark matter on Chelsea Wolfe’s debut album “Apokalypsis” than the L.A. songstress unveils a new song. “Sunstorm” is a chilling, minimalist missive about death and its emotional entrails – no massive wall of sound here, just a repeating synth line and call-and-response vocals. The song doesn’t need […]
Fantastic Friday things: ‣ Old-school R&B adventurer Nick Waterhouse, at work on a debut album coming out in the spring, brings his edgy, vintage sounds to the Bootleg Theater. [Refresher: See the video for “I Can Only Give You Everything.”] The Allah Las and Anna Egge support. ‣ At the Echo, it’s soul phenom Allen […]
Hurricane Bells, the indie-pop tangent of Longwave’s Steve Schiltz, got some attention in 2009 when a B-side, “Monsters,” made the soundtrack for “The Twilight Saga: The New Moon.” Last month, Schiltz released the second Hurricane Bells album, “Tides and Tales,” a collection of fuzzy, jangly and effects-dotted gems that, while not earning any points for […]
Rhymes with swoon, I guess. Jamie Woon’s debut album “Mirrorwriting” (out now digitally and in the U.K., Jan. 31 physically) announces the 28-year-old Londoner as the latest white-soul contender, and he’s got the falsetto for it. Most interesting, though, are the album’s electronic textures, and we will pass along the same tip we got about […]
The Peach Kings shape the kind of music that’ll make you break out in a sweat, and then maybe blow softly on the back of your neck to cool things down again. The Bay Area-bred, L.A.-based duo of Paige Wood and Steven Trezevant join a long list of two-pieces rooting around in the blues, folk […]
‣ Cass McCombs winds down a busy and profilic year when the folk singer and his band play the Echo behind his new album “Humor Risk,” the second full-length he’s released in 2011. That’s Albert Herter’s video for “The Same Thing,” above. White Magic supports. ‣ At the Bootleg, Duniven celebrates the release of its […]
