Video: Evan Voytas, ‘Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere’
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Supermodel Kate Moss is a dear in the headlights in L.A. songwriter Evan Voytas’ new video. How did that happen? Check out my item at ChinaShop Magazine.
Video: HT Heartache, ‘Turn Black’
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HT Heartache has one of those voices that can turn you into a puddle of tears, and the L.A. songstress wielded it deftly on last year’s slow-burner of an album “Swing Low,” which was produced by Gus Black with a little boost from the songwriter’s husband, Sam Johnson of Shadow Shadow Shade. Now filmmaker Michael […]
Video: Apex Manor, ‘My My Mind’
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As evidenced on “The Year of Magical Drinking,” the new album by Apex Manor released today on Merge, songwriter Ross Flournoy doesn’t turn pop music into brain surgery. It can be hard on the heart, though, and Flournoy’s first post-Broken West outing effectively tugs those strings with effortless melodies and a plain-spoken sincerity that’ll settle […]
Video: Vanaprasta, ‘Healthy Geometry’
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This we know about Vanaprasta: The L.A. quintet approaches epic heights with its fusion of slashing guitars, furious rhythms and Steven Wilkin’s arena-rock tenor. The Silver Lakers have proven themselves at show after show. And in Dylan Bell’s video that just debuted for “Healthy Geometry,” they look ready for the big leagues. What’s still a […]
Funeral Party’s ‘Golden Age’ won’t start until March
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East L.A. dance-punks Funeral Party have a new release out this week, but it’s not the one originally planned. The band’s long-awaited debut album for RCA, “Golden Age of Knowhere,” originally scheduled to be out this week, has been pushed back to March 29 – mainly because the band has been doing so well in […]
Video: The Whigs, ‘So Lonely’
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The Whigs satiated plenty of rockist appetites when the Athens, Ga., trio released their third album “In the Dark” early last year. If they haven’t shown up on the radar lately, it’s because they’ve been busy promoting and touring behind the European release of the album. So if you’ll pardon the interruption, here’s some midday […]
Tonight in L.A.: Wanda Jackson, Cold War Kids, White Lies, the Belle Brigade/the Fling
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Top show options on a busy Monday: ‣ Wanda Jackson, backed by Jack White and the Third Man House Band, plays a second night at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ On the eve of the release of their third album, “Mine Is Yours,” Cold War Kids play the Bootleg Theater. ‣ White Lies, their new […]
Video: PJ Harvey, ‘The Words That Maketh Murder’
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The nature of “Let England Shake,” the new album from PJ Harvey due Feb. 15, is slowly taking shape via the release of two of the 12 videos that will accompany each song on the album. They are the work of Seamus Murphy, a photographer who stitched together images and video from a 5,000-mile trip […]
This weekend in L.A.: Wanda Jackson, the Melvins, Hellogoodbye, Guster, Voxhaul Broadcast
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[Birthday greetings today to Cat Power … Now on to the weekend:] Five very different shows that pique my interest: ‣ Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson, the 73-year-old Queen of Rockabilly whose new album “The Party Ain’t Over” (out next week) was produced by Jack White, starts a two-night stand Sunday night […]
Video: Haroula Rose, ‘Simple Time’
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You don’t have to be sagging under the weight of the digital age to embrace the notion behind “Simple Time,” a new song from Haroula Rose. “Simple time, simple time / Come find me again,” the L.A.-via-Chicago songstress pleads in the song off her new album “These Open Roads.” Her finger-picked guitar gets a deft […]
