Plenty of Friday fun: ‣ Feedback-loving Bay Area post-punk trio Weekend hits the Echo behind their new “Red” EP on Slumberland Records, with Talk Normal and Tan Dollar supporting. ‣ Nashville quartet the Features, sharp and spirited when they visited L.A. in July, make a return visit to the Satellite. ‣ Bright Eyes plays a […]
Like most of the songs on their debut “Pickin’ Up the Pieces,” we adore Fitz & the Tantrums’ “Don’t Gotta Work It Out.” But the video for the song makes us long for the days of the band’s black-and-white performance clips. Did somebody shuffle the storyboards, or what? What’s with the briefcase? The feathers? The […]
The last time we talked with Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith, he made it clear that the band felt most at home on the road. Yet “Time Spent in Los Angeles,” which opens their latest record “Nothing Is Wrong,” could be read as a tender love letter to their home turf. No matter how much the […]
Thursday’s menu: ‣ Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club visit the Wiltern Theatre, with local quintet Grouplove opening. Above is Grouplove’s recent video for “Tongue Tied,” off its debut “Never Trust a Happy Song.” ‣ The Janks celebrate the release of their album “Hands of Time” with a show at the Bootleg Theater. American Tomahawk […]
Coyol, a duo who embodies both the grit of the old Southwest and the new Los Angeles, have released their first self-titled EP, and to celebrate they’ve made a video for the tune that started it all. Although Céleigh Chapman and John Isaac Watters have carefully been unveiling new songs (each accompanied by intriguing artwork […]
This from R.E.M.’s website today: “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by […]
L.A. noiseniks No Age aren’t exactly the stars of their own video in Todd Cole’s short film highlighting “Inflorescence.” Cole, whose other work includes Rodarte-branded “The Curve of Forgotten Things” with Elle Fanning (and, notably, the video for Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms”), was matched up with No Age via the Levi’s Film Workshop (so none […]
Alan Palomo’s project Neon Indian initially surfaced after he had written a batch of songs that didn’t quite fit with his band Vega, but his entrance into the chillwave scene along with others such as Toro Y Moi and Washed Out did not go unnoticed with hazy anthems such as “Deadbeat Summer” off his appropriately […]
Army Navy’s new video for “Ode to Janice Melt” takes “talk to the hand” to a whole ‘nother level. It’s directed by Jeremy Konner (“Drunk History”) and stars Jason Ritter (“The Event”), along with Gudrun Flaherty and a cameo by “Big Bang Theory’s” Simon Helber. The song comes from their excellent sophomore album “The Last […]
Touts for your Tuesday: ‣ Bon Iver and Other Lives do a second night in L.A., this show at the Gibson Amphitheatre. ‣ Low visits the El Rey Theatre behind its April release “C’mon,” with New Zealand’s Bachelorette opening. ‣ Correatown celebrates today’s release of its new album “Pleiades” with a show at the Bootleg […]
