“DIY,” the dance-party anthem by Pop Noir, is getting the Orange County-based trio some well-deserved notice. The song – the kind of ditty that begs for remixes – cracked the radio specialty charts last month, and now the “DIY” video is among the nominees in MTVU’s “Freshmen” contest (the same competition that the Happy Hollows […]
Patrick Park’s third album “Come What Will” arrives in April, and the L.A. singer-songwriter previews some of it tonight; he’ll be backed by a full band at the Hotel Cafe, where Spring Summer opens. … San Francisco quartet Lovelikefire, which has played a lot in L.A. the past few years, visits the Silverlake Lounge behind […]
Efterklang means “remembrance” in Danish, but Copenhagen’s indie pop-rockers, currently signed to 4AD, have a sound that’s anything but nostalgic. They headline Spaceland with 60 Watt Kid and SISU. … After three sold-out dates at the Echoplex, BRMC brings the Veils to House of Blues Anaheim. … Orange County’s own the Union Line keep the […]
[Off to SXSW soon – I’m warmed up, and some local bands are getting there too …] Their sophomore album “Volume Two” comes out March 23, and She & Him – that’s Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, if you don’t remember them from the Paste magazine cover, and that’s their video for their rather saccharine […]
By Meriah Doty It was a night of surprises and emotion at the sold-out El Rey Theatre on Friday as a very pregnant Inara George walked onstage with crimped hair, an ’80s-styled frock and an ear-to-ear grin. Joined by her collaborator in the Bird and Bee, keyboardist Greg Kurstin, and an all-star band that included […]
One more post about Lucy Schwartz before we sit back and await her debut album later this year. The 20-year-old songstress has a pretty special voice and a deft touch with balladry, as shown on her “Help Me! Help Me!” EP – not to mention an All-American girl look that works well in works like […]
Filmed in some parking lots, and locales other than parking lots, here’s Simon Cardoza’s video for Manhatan Murder Mystery’s “Parking Lot.” The song is an urgent post-punk burner off the band’s “Skull” EP. Thrash accordingly. ||| Live: The arrival of this video led me to the discovery of an event Sunday that was not on […]
It’s that time of the month – the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays show tonight features Rhode Island quartet Deer Tick and Los Angeles’ own Everest. If you can’t make it to the show but are near a computer, come back to this very blog, where, courtesy of Spaceland Recordings, we will have a live […]
Everybody else posted it today. And as a State Farm customer, I felt I should too. Live long and embed.
Sad and beautiful. Dark and lovely. Few indie-pop bands have explored that dichotomy in recent years as well as Illinois-based Headlights did on last fall’s release “Wildlife.” If you don’t have a twee streak at least as wide as the 405, you’d best move on. As for me, the quartet’s spare boy/girl pop – which […]
