Top 3 places to be tonight if you’re not a metal fan: ‣ Lyrics Born, whose new album “Lies X 3” comes out next week, is the late headliner at the Roxy. That’s the Yoram Benz-directed video for the title track, above. And here’s a little bonus – a song from the album that features […]
Eight thousand ants and singer Chris Richard star in Grant James’ video for the Deadly Syndrome’s “Trouble Again,” which premiered on Consequence of Sound, where you can get more background. It’s a remarkable piece of videography for a gorgeously tender song, which appears on the L.A. quartet’s sophomore album “Nolens Volens.” That album, by the […]
Around the city in 3 bulleted items: ‣ Buzzy/noisy/exhilarating Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells headline the sold-out El Rey Theatre. ‣ Mercury Prize nominees Villagers open for Ra Ra Riot at the Music Box. ‣ And there’s a great local bill at the Silverlake Lounge – Paulie Pesh celebrates the release of his “Shining Stars” EP, […]
Flying Lotus let his musical imagination run wild on his sprawling new EP “Pattern+Grid World,” the follow-up to his acclaimed album from earlier this yer, “Cosmogramma.” In the video for “Kill Your Co-Workers,” the man born Steven Ellison has found a visual collaborator with an equally wide vision. Animator Beeple has made available for download […]
[It’s Karl Wallinger’s birthday today, and I miss me some World Party …] Top show featuring fortysomethings we love: ‣ Superchunk (new album “Majesty Shredding”) and the Vaselines (new album “Sex With an X” – that’s the video, above) play the Music Box, with Telekinesis opening. You couldn’t go wrong here either: ‣ Broken Social […]
Of all the comebacks and reunions and renaissances in the past two years, none found my sweet spot quicker than Superchunk’s “Majesty Shredding.” Majestic to its exuberant, celebratory core, the quartet’s first album in nine years doesn’t feel a bit like an attempt to cash in on the nostalgia of the band’s heyday. The video […]
Top 3 U.K. acts to see in L.A. tonight (and the best one is not a Mercury Prize nominee): ‣ The RSVP-only It’s a School Night at Bardot features the French Horn Rebellion, Mia Doi Todd and secret guests from across the pond. I hear it’s a Manchester band signed to a local label. Be […]
The cool video for Foals’ “Blue Blood” makes a star out of a child in a school hall, and it’s not the first time director Chris Sweeney has scored with a dance-tastic music video. Sweeney was responsible for the shape-shifting in Marina and the Diamonds’ video for “Mowgli’s Road.” Foals, meanwhile, earned a Mercury Prize […]
Power pop lives. The sixth album from Guster, “Easy Wonderful,” cracked the Billboard charts at No. 22 this week, giving us reason to believe the Boston band’s cult following is turning into a congregation. The quartet went to great lengths to promote their new release, including soliciting videos for each of “Easy Wonderful’s” 12 tracks. […]
One month after “Undertow” – the first single from Warpaint’s debut album “The Fool” – hit the Web, the L.A. quartet has released a great video for the song. Directed by former band member Shannyn Sossamon, the piece is imbued with a pastoral innocence and subtext that matches the song’s languid atmospherics and restless rhythms. […]
