The sweaty, sold-out show by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on Nov. 13 at the Echo was a hit with longtime fans of the Texas trio. Spaceland Recordings will release a live album recorded at the gig later this spring – for now, however, they are offering a free download […]
Dave Stewart (Eurythmics, if you were born in a latter decade) is offering a little Valentine’s Day gift – the title track off his new EP “Let’s Do It Again.” Of course, the song featuring singer Sierra Swan already has a commercial tie-in, so should I even say it has substantial buzz? Guess not. ||| […]
I’m not sure when L.A. electro-pop quartet Casxio is going to start getting the attention they deserve, but the video they just released for the song “Boiling Point” might help. It’s a stark short film with a cast of six, directed by Hilton Carter and made by his production team Fresh Kill. Casxio has consistently […]
If you just can’t enough of awards shows, the Grammy Awards Pre-Telecast is streaming live on Grammy.com – that’s when the academy gives out some 100 awards that aren’t on the national telecast. Metallica (for “Death Magnetic”) beat out No Age (“Nouns”) and others for best CD packaging, and Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” just won for […]
When Sara Lov sings “I had a dream …” in her new single “New York,” you almost do. The song is off her just-released EP, “The Young Eyes,” and this video was directed by Marco Morandi. The L.A. singer-songwriter, building up to the March 17 release of her album, “Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming,” just finished […]
[Happy birthday to Duff McKagan, rock star, online columnist and … mountain climber.] My, what a diverse music menu you have tonight, Los Angeles. Let’s start with a couple intriguing small shows, like at the Silverlake Lounge, where Andy Friedman & the Other Failures are in from Brooklyn. Friedman is a New Yorker cartoonist-turned-poet-turned-folk singer […]
Sounds like a gimmick – a rock band anchored by the three Berlin brothers making an album in Berlin – but the nine months the Living Things spent in the German capital rate as the most exciting and profilic of the quartet’s young lives. “We went to Berlin with a bunch of songs and an […]
[Happy birthday, Dave Davies …] “Razorlight Set to Take on U.S.” I think I first read that headline in January, 2005, when the British quartet began in earnest to market their wares here – only to have its tour scotched because of frontman’s Johnny Borrell’s vocal problems. A 2006 tour didn’t go much better, canceled […]
A funny thing happened to writer/theater director/songwriter Oren Lavie on his way to obscurity: KCRW-FM’s Chris Douridas exposed audiences to his music, and then Lavie got a song in a Chevrolet commercial (even though he’d never owned a car is his life and doesn’t watch TV). The tune, “Her Morning Elegance” (off his forthcoming album […]
At its recent performance at Check One Twosday at the Echoplex, L.A. six-piece Castledoor unveiled a raft of impressive new material – including the soaring ballad “Hush.” Spaceland Recordings is offering a free download of the live track. Here’s the video … you can do the download thing right here.
