The Cribs’ new album “Ignore the Ignorant” is pretty irresistible front to back, with its punk-rock guitars and attitude going down easier than a fourth pint. At the U.K. quartet’s Nov. 9 show at the Roxy, there was the predictable bit of Johnny Marr gawking – the ex-Smiths guitarist joined the Jarman brothers (Ryan, Gary […]
Dear Ian Fleming & the Secret Agents: You made my Friday afternoon, dudes. Best, Bronson P.S.: Yeah, yours is better than this.
French songstress (and actress) Charlotte Gainsbourg is preparing her first album in four years, “IRM,” and she has some pretty heavyweight collaborators: Nigel Godrich, Jarvis Cocker, Air and … Beck, who produces and duets with Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter on the song “Heaven Can Wait.” I’m not sure I grasp the meaning of any of […]
Them Crooked Vultures – nice backgrounder on them in this morning’s L.A. Times – have sprung a surprise show on the Sunset Strip, and on the eve of their album release. The trio of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones will play the Roxy tonight; tickets at the door only, and there are […]
When OK Go, makes a video, you pay attention. So in the interests of what-are-these-dudes=up-to-now?, I give you the video for the quartet’s new single “WTF,” which despite its vivid color palette makes me more than a little bit queasy. The song points to an electro-funk direction for the quartet’s third album, “Of the Blue […]
This made me chuckle because, yes, I’m old enough to remember plying my horrible white-boy dance moves in front of a black-and-white television set. It’s the video for Bishop Allen’s “True or False” (directed by Randy Bell, choreographed by Andrea Delmonico), off the Brooklyn indie-pop ensemble’s new album “Grrr…” (out on Dead Oceans). I’m pretty […]
It’s a busy night in Echo Park – local experimental noisemakers 60 Watt Kid celebrate the release of their new album “We Come From the Bright Side” upstairs at the Echo, while Bishop Allen and Throw Me the Statue play downstairs at the Echoplex in a show that was moved from the El Rey Theatre. […]
My favorite retro-pop Danes, the Raveonettes, have dropped another glorious fuzz-bomb in their fourth album, “In and Out of Control” (just out on Vice). Maybe it’s because Sun Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo seem to have spent so much time in Los Angeles over the past couple of years, but the new album sounds surf-infused, […]
Julian Casablancas’ residency at the Downtown Palace Theatre got off to a visually dazzling and sonically rip-roaring start on Friday night. My review of the Strokes frontman’s solo turn for SPIN.com is now up. Above, Casablancas does the Strokes rarity “I’ll Try Anything Once,” stumbing a bit on the lyrics.
The weekend beckons, so does Saturday night. And while combing through my mountains of unread e-mail, I came across this one, announcing the new video for fun.‘s (sorry, that’s how the band renders its name) harmony-laden “All the Pretty Girls.” It’s a song that brings out the 17-year-old optimist in me. (Yeah, he’s still there […]
