[It’s Columbus Day, and Bob Mould’s birthday, and here are some things to navigate this evening:] It’s smooth sailing for the Monday residencies – tonight is the Buzz Bands LA-hosted night at the Echo, where Correatown, the nom de tune of Angela Correa, headlines [download, background]. The fulll slate includes Summer Darling, Square on Square […]
Not to muck up what otherwise might be a cheery Friday for you, but here’s the video for “Drugs,” one of high (low?) points off “Six,” the new album by San Diego’s the Black Heart Procession. “Six” is emotionally murky and undeniably compelling and like looking at yourself in a warped mirror by candlelight. As […]
[Apologies for the tardiness of this post. Your faithful servant was still reeling from the rawk-accompanied video montages they showed at the Cardinals-Dodgers game last night …] It’s a big night for Sean Tillman, who in his persona as disco party captain Har Mar Superstar launches into a U.S. tour by headlining the Echo. Har […]
Although I liked it a lot better when it was Jack Nitschke’s theme song to a great movie.
[My reference material tells me Simon Cowell turns the big Five-Oh today. I know that name from somewhere. … Here’s what’s happening somewhere else:] Fever Ray, the solo incarnation of singer Karin Dreijer Andersson of critical darlings the Knife, plays to a sold-out Fonda tonight behind its wonderfully eerie self-titled album [Above, the video for […]
We’re coming up on the end of a very robust year of album releases – wonder if anybody will remember Glasvegas’ self-titled disc from way back in January when compiling those year-end lists? Maybe that’s why the Glaswegian quartet is hitting us with a video for “It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry.” […]
Brooklyn-based trio Au Revoir Simone have fantastic bangs and a big fan in David Lynch. Erika Forster, Annie Hart and Heather D’Angelo also have a touch for lightly sweetened and deftly layered pop songs, as displayed on their May release, “Still Light, Still Night.” This slickly edited video for the single “Shadows” debuted simultaneously on […]
The Avett Brothers’ Rick Rubin-produced new album “I and Love and You” comes out Tuesday, and after taking a spin through it courtesy of NPR, the North Carolina-based trio’s major-label debut sounds like it’s worth the hype. Their show earlier this month at the Orpheum left a couple friends of mine downright delirious – both […]
If you know Andy Chase, it’s probably as a producer who’s worked with the likes of the Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne, Juliana Hatfield, Tahiti 80 and the Trashcan Sinatras, or as a member (with his wife, singer Dominique Durand) of the band Ivy. But Chase also fronts the side project Brookville, a vehicle for […]
[Here begins my meager attempt to catch up on the myriad local releases stacked on my desk:] Sea Wolf, “White Water, White Bloom” (Dangerbird) – Alex Brown Church’s sophomore album is the like the second date with that person you were positively giddy over after the first outing. Then, after all the preening and anticipation, […]
