I’m not sure from whose imagination this video sprang, but Dios’ trippy song “Stare at Wheel” deserved better than some cut-and-paste psychedelia. In fact, the Hawthorne band’s early-2010 “We Are Dios” deserves a better ride than it’s gotten. Worth revisiting. The album, I mean.
This kinda makes everything better. Thanks for the heads-up, Captain.
Therapy Session, the musical brainchild of singer-songwriter Joel Michalak, is pretty good medicine if your tastes lean toward ’90s radio hitmakers, but Michalak’s album “Burning Bridges & Building Walls” finds an even sweeter spot on stripped-down numbers such as “The Other Way Around.” Yes, Michalak’s homemade, guerilla-style video for the song steals its own punchline […]
[Massive weekend ahead, but not so big that we shouldn’t pause to wish Janet Weiss a happy birthday – and note that she’s in a new band, Wild Flag, coming to Spaceland on Nov. 19:] Top 4 shows near and dear to my L.A.-centric heart: ‣ Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits celebrate their EP release tonight at […]
U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire became honorary Silver Lakers during the year or so they spent recording in Los Angeles, and you can hear a little of the neighborhood’s finest, Silversun Pickups, in APOF’s new album “Road Eyes” (due Oct. 5). Searing guitars, big choruses, ear-splitting effects – it’s an updated slice of heaven […]
[Caution: This video contains brief nudity. If you’re the type to be offended by this, or if you’re my 14-year-old niece, please click here and be generous.] I submit this to you not only because I think the cover is great (and friends of mine will be swooning over that song when Band of Horses […]
[Happy 40th today to Ani DiFranco …] Top 3 places to fill your ears tonight: ‣ Globe-trotting world-beat phenoms Fool’s Gold play their first L.A. club show since December (though if you were lucky, you caught their too-short set at the Hollywood Bowl in June) at the Troubadour, with Wallpaper and Rainbow Arabia supporting. ‣ […]
[Happy birthday, Joan Jett. Now for a busy Thursday night …] Top 5 places to be tonight (at one time, if you’re really good): ‣ Maybe you remember Cloud Cult’s raucous set at Coachella in 2009. Maybe you like to see live painting onstage while a band performs. Maybe you’re heard the Minneapolis art-pop collective’s […]
All I have to say is, “Woof! They’ve done it again.”
For Funeral Party, the young East L.A. dance-punks who seem ready to take the world by storm, the wait must be agonizing. The band turned heads in late 2008, toured supporting the likes of Trail of Dead and Julian Casablancas and finished an album bearing the studio fingerprints of Lars Stalfors (the Mars Volta) and […]
