Anybody who checked out Joseph Arthur’s remarkable residency in February at the Bootleg Theater knows the 39-year-old artist is more than just a songwriter. You could get as lost in the Bootleg’s auxiliary rooms – which, during the residency, were turned into a Museum of Modern Arthur to display his paintings and prints – as […]
Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore has been keeping busy with plenty of tour dates since the release of his third solo studio album. Produced by Beck (who also provided synths and drumming on the record), “Demolished Thoughts” is surprisingly a bit more acoustic and folk-oriented. However, the energy within these tracks should not be underestimated; […]
Too much Tuesday: ‣ Canadian hardcore punks F*cked Up, their new album “David Comes to Life” (out in June) getting a lot of deserved accolades, visit the El Rey Theatre, with L.A.’s own Fidlar and Sacramento’s Trash Talk opening. That’s F*cked Up’s video for “Queens of Hearts,” above. ‣ WU LYF, the Manchester up-and-comers whose […]
Mainstream music under the stars, and the red-hot residencies: ‣ Maroon 5, Train and Gavin DeGraw do the Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Sugarland, Sara Bareilles, Casey James team up at the Greek Theatre. ‣ The hottest free show in town? It certainly has been every Monday this month – Crystal Antlers close out their residency at […]
With the way MTV and VH1 have gone down the drain in regards to purpose and integrity, it’s comforting that bands still care about the music videos they make. However, the fact that music videos have been replaced with smut reality shows hasn’t seemed to bother Australian indie folk pop group Cloud Control. Although their […]
Dunes certainly runs in the hip circles – their iPhone video for “Tied Together” (released as a 7-inch on Teenage Teardrops) features cameos from members of No Age, Vivian Girls, Abe Vigoda, Telepathe, Shannon and the Clams and other denizens of the L.A. underground. Not unlike the metaphor in the song and the video, the […]
“Please speak to me / with empathy / and I won’t fight back,” sings frontman Matt Schwartz of L.A. quartet Chasing Kings. In their new video music video for “Empathy,” Schwartz definitely isn’t fighting back, but his bandmates certainly aren’t showing any compassion either. Dragging him into an abandoned shed and pinning him down to […]
Our picks on a light show night: ‣ Singer-songwriter Kevin Earnest celebrates the release of his new album “You Feel Like Home” with a show at the Hotel Cafe, where Anna Nalick and Lindsay Rae Spurlock also play. That’s Earnest’s video for “Stuck in the Way,” above. ‣ Singer-songwriter and purveyor of downtempo dream-pop Shannon […]
Eleanor Friedberger is better known as one half of the Chicago-based band the Fiery Furnaces, with the other half being her brother Matthew. But for the moment, she’s taking some time to present her first solo record, “Last Summer” (out last week via Merge). This news does not imply that the Fiery Furnaces are throwing […]
Not unlike the songs on Foster the People’s hit-laden debut album “Torches,” director Ace Norton’s video for the single “Helena Beat” takes a little of this, a little of that and a little of something else, and runs very far with it, in a “Mad Max”/”Lost Boys” sort of way. What, the label’s video budget […]
