‣ Death Cab For Cutie headlines the El Rey Theatre behind its new album “Codes and Keys.” Above is the band’s video for “You’re a Tourist,” which was broadcast as it was filmed, in a single take. The Lonely Forest, whose album “Arrows” is out on Chris Walla’s Trans Records, opens. ‣ Band of Skulls, […]
Shaping pop and rock classics into string arrangements is nothing new in L.A., where the Section Quartet has been sawing and shredding for better than a decade. But a pair of hunky Ukrainian 24-year-olds, Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, have burst on the scene with a new twist on the cover band. They are 2CELLOS. […]
It’s Gayngs and Dirty Beaches providing the music tonight at the year’s final installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum. Watch the proceedings live here, beginning at 8 p.m.
There’s no doubt that L.A.-based Henry Wolfe is a crooner. He’s got the looks, the down-to-earth demeanor and a voice that takes on a strong new character with each song on his latest album “Linda Vista.” The son of Meryl Streep, Wolfe instills as much charm as melody in his pensive, pointed songs, and possesses […]
All-female L.A. band Kissing Cousins has a name that implies an act of love, but despite the pink hearts that serve as bookends to their new video for their edgy single “You Bring Me Down,” there aren’t too many acts of kindness going on. Heather Heywood, Beth Zeigler, Alexis Woodall, Amanda Paganini (and former bassist […]
[Why, it’s Jason Falkner’s birthday today. Not completely tangentially, an e-mail yesterday informed me that Brendan Benson’s great 2002 album “Lapalco” – on which Falkner co-wrote five songs – is getting the deluxe re-issue treatment. So much for today’s minutae …] In local venues tonight: ‣ With their fourth album “Suck It and See” coming out […]
Australian eccentrics Architecture In Helsinki found a new label home (Modular) and a glossier sheen to their indie-pop for their fourth album, “Moment Bends,” which came out in May. They tinker with ’80s influences on “That Beep” (from their 2008 EP) and “Contact High,” and some of the bouncing bass lines will sound awfully familiar. […]
Lawrence Arabia is the nom de musique of New Zealand’s prolific psych-pop maestro James Milne. In full Lawrence of Arabia garb, he knocked out an understated eponymous debut in 2006, and followed it up that same year with an infectious set of glorious pop songs released as the Reduction Agents – Milne in cahoots with […]
[Levon Helm, Stevie Nicks, Hank Williams Jr. and Lenny Kravitz all celebrate birthdays today … and one of them is listed below:] Happy Thursday: ‣ Stevie Nicks sings and blows out birthday candles at the Wiltern. ‣ Swedish indie-pop trio the Radio Dept. visit the Troubadour, with Therapies Son opening. ‣ Mia Doi Todd [see […]
Anybody who noticed Mia Doi Todd before her set Saturday at the Silver Lake Jubilee had to be taken by her calm. While a noisy dance-pop finished up its set on the Sunset Stage, Todd sat placidly on a folding chair in the backstage area, looking a wavy-haired Mona Lisa amid all the commotion. She […]
