Prince is doing three shows tonight at as-yet-unannounced locations, and here’s what else is up: ‣ The Twilight Singers visit the Music Box behind their fifth album (and first in five years), “Dynamite Steps.” Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s and Jonneine Zapata support. ‣ Austin quartet White Denim hits the Echo behind its […]
If nothing else, the new video from Santa Monica-bred indie quartet Princeton solved one mystery for me: Whatever happened to Active Child? Harp-wielding Pat Grossi seemed poised to take over the indie universe last year, and there was talk of an album early this year. (It apparently needed more TLC, because now the as-yet-untitled album […]
‣ Austin dream-pop trio Love Inks, who just released their debut “E.S.P.” this month, visit the Echo, along with Black Elephant and Sister Crayon. ‣ Lavender Diamond is resurfacing – Becky Stark says the band has all new songs – and will be playing at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. ‣ Citizen […]
The new album by the Cars is fantastic. So Blondie is getting a second wind too … Why not? Principals Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke announced today that “Panic of Girls” – their ninth album (and first since “The Curse of Blondie” eight years ago) – will come out in September. The video […]
The rain will stop, the shows won’t: ‣ Nineties faves Buffalo Tom headline the Troubadour behind their new album, “Skins,” and the Heavenly States open. ‣ Thao Nguyen, who recently collaborated with Mirah on an album, brings her band Thao With the Get Down Stay Down to UCLA’s Royce Hall. Morning Teleportation opens. ‣ The […]
[Birthday greetings today Trent Reznor … Here’s the morning missive, delayed a bit by some connectivity problems. Apologies:] Touts for Tuesday: ‣ New York DJ/producer/singer Luca Venezia, d/b/a Drop the Lime, looks as though he can rock a dancefloor. How he’s doing it is interesting – old-school ’50s rock ’n’ roll spiked with modern house […]
Although a few of his fellow band members may have left to form Signals, the Mae Shi’s Brad Breeck has been keeping busy and he hasn’t turned down the volume since the release of the ambitiously convulsive “HLLLYH.” Now performing and releasing new music under the moniker Skull Tape, Breeck is still a flowing fountain […]
For Alex Lilly, it’s always been juggling act. Her music fronting the quintet Obi Best darts spryly in and out of pop, jazz and psychedelia. Her career always found her with a lot of balls in the air: duties backing the likes of Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, the Bird and the Bee and Juliette Commagere; […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson …] Tonight’s top outings, and then some: ‣ The Cars’ new album “Move Like This” – their first in 24 years – sounds like … well, the Cars. Not an old or watered-down version, either, which is gratifying in a time aging hitmakers recycle […]
Actor-director Adam Goldberg’s second adventure in pop songwriting, as the Goldberg Sisters, comes at you like a John Lennon apparition through a lava lamp. More often than on his maiden voyage as LANDy in 2009, though, Goldberg’s tweaked-out psych-pop makes sense, even on editable excursions like “Don’t Grow,” “The Heart Grows Fonder” and “Mother Please,” […]
