[Happy birthday to ex-Drop Nineteens frontwoman, former Beantowner and current L.A. songstress Paula Kelley … Now, on to the weekend’s festivities:] Check out LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound for my roundup of weekend outings. Here’s a handful of my favorites in a jam-packed weekend: ‣ The Watson Twins, back from 15 dates last month supporting […]
Highland Park’s Seasons debuted their new video on Wednesday night for “Light, Lost,” and it’s pretty brilliant. The song is a beautifully languid number from the band’s “Winters” EP; the video is the work of director Christopher J. Ewing, featuring Holland Roden and Gabriel Raffaelli. It’s worth following the protagonist’s mysterious journey all the way […]
Lucas Guerin grew up in the Los Angeles area as the son of French parents, studied theater and filmmaking and although reared in a musical household didn’t pick up an instrument until he was 20. And when he closes his eyes, he hears … Kool & the Gang, Sly & the Family Stone, Prince? “I’m […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Owen Pallett …] Tonight’s top 3 hangs: ‣ Funeral Party – the young East L.A. rockers who recently made NME’s list of the year’s top new bands – kick off a residency at the Bootleg Theater. They’re signed to RCA, which has pushed back the release of their debut […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Cisco Adler …] Four fine ways to wrap up your holiday weekend: ‣ Eastern Conference Champions kick off their residency at Spaceland. Newbies Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits were originally scheduled to support but have had to cancel; O.C.’s the New Limb replaces them on the bill. ‣ Vanaprasta and Pacific […]
Top 3 hangs this holiday weekend: ‣ The FYF Fest goes off downtown at Los Angeles State Historic Park, featuring this week’s Weezer, Wavves [that’s video for “Post-Acid,” above], along with the likes of the Rapture, Panda Bear, School of Seven Bells, Best Coast, the Soft Pack, AA Bondy and about 30 others. More on […]
Hearing this first single from the Chapin Sisters’ sophomore album “Two,” I’m not the least bit bothered by the fact that, despite the rhyme, palm trees don’t have leaves. I’m rather … er, frond of it. The music made by sisters Abigail and Lily Chapin (and, previously, half-sister Jessica Craven, who is currently on hiatus […]
The bursts of noisy guitar in the Morning Benders’ song “All Day Day Light” [that’s the new, Jack Ferry-directed video, above] is the perfect accompaniment to today’s news that the SoCal-born quartet, now splitting their time between San Francisco, New York and the road, has grown into a headliner act. The Benders, riding high on […]
The late-’80s British alt-rock canon looms large over a certain type of West Coast indie hopeful, to such an extent that some bands never quite seem able to step out from under the ample shadow. Not so with San Diego’s Lights On, which has followed up on the promise of debut EP “Waiting to Hear the […]
[Happy September. And happy 35th to Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta.] Top show I will attend tonight if I can remove the headphones long enough to attend a show: ‣ Sometimes when I’m lost in the ambient music made by Jonathan D. Haskell – aka Seven Saturdays – I feel like I’m hearing the […]
