Cold Cave‘s latest album, “Cherish The Light Years,” has all the elements of “Love Comes Close.” The synth churns, industrial drums and wailing guitars are still the trio’s signature, but on the band’s second album for Matador everything is bigger, louder and, well, more emotional. Songwriter Wesley Eisold’s New Wave influences here veer towards goth-pop […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Greg Dulli, whose Twilight Singers are coming to town May 25 …] Tonight’s picks: ‣ Elvis Costello and the Imposters bring their “Spectacular Spinning Songbook” – fans spin the wheel and the band plays whatever comes up – to their sold-out show at the Wiltern. ‣ TV On the […]
If longtime faves the Get Up Kids seem rejuvenated (and their fans a bit giddy) over the January release of “There Are Rules,” the frolicking video for “Shatter Your Lungs” certainly captures the spirit. A pie thief? A chase scene? Now that’s sweet. Besides the Kansas quintet’s forthcoming tour with Saves the Day, they have […]
New things for a new week: ‣ The Low Anthem, the Rhode Islanders whose acclaimed new album”Smart Flesh” was recorded in a pasta sauce factory, visit the Autry Center’s Heritage Courtyard for a show with Ivan & Alyosha and Daniel Leftkowitz. That’s the Low Anthem’s video for “Boeing 737” above, featuring tightrope walker Jade Kindar-Martin. […]
Moving Units and Crystal Stilts team up at tonight’s First Fridays event at the Natural History Museum. Watch the performances live here, courtesy of Pop-Aut.
Australian two-piece An Horse blasted its way onto our Top 20 list in 2009 with “Rearrange Beds,” a collection of rockers that were part punk, part pop and all exposed nerves. Kate Cooper and Damon Cox are back with “Walls,” just out on Mom & Pop Records, showing no signs of dialing down the volume […]
‣ Singer-songwriter Cass McCombs, his new album “Wit’s End” out last month on Domino [preview], headlines the Troubadour, with Frank Fairfield and Residual Echoes supporting. ‣ Sixty-three-year-old “up-and-comer” Charles Bradley, the Daptone singer who is backed by the Menahan Street Band, brings his James Brown-indebted soul to the Echo. That’s his video for “The World […]
Canadian four-piece band Hollerado made a huge splash in the Internet waves last year thanks to their video for “Americanarama,” and they’re back to tout another low-budget, one-take masterpiece for the latest single off of their debut album, “Record in a Bag.” Although the video for “Got To Lose” doesn’t involve any people in boxes […]
It’s a huge Saturday with shows cinematic, theatrical and fantastic: ‣ British orchestral rockers Tindersticks this week released a deluxe boxed set of six scores they created for the acclaimed films of Claire Denis. Highlights from the project, “Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009,” are being staged in seven shows worldwide, and only two in the […]
Not only have L.A. sextet White Arrows picked up a lot of steam in recent months, they’ve proven themselves to be a little bit broader than the “electro Strokes” label with which they were immediately tagged. Frontman Mickey Schiff and bandmates work a little psychedelia and blues into the palette, and as White Arrows’ live […]
