[Birthday greetings today go out to Lucinda Williams …] Pop Levi performs tonight at the Echoplex to benefit the very fine 826LA as part of Tiny Vaudeville, a night of music, comedy, short films, novelty acts, lectures and slide shows. The night promises an appearance by “an actor so famous we can’t mention the name” […]
Loney Dear, the Swedish folk-pop outfit helmed by Emil Svanängen, has a new album, “Dear John,” coming out Tuesday on Polyvinyl. Marcus Söderlund’s video for the song “Airport Surroundings” couples a feeling of loneliness with the song’s driving beat. ||| Live: Loney Dear opens for Andrew Bird on Feb. 18 at the Orpheum.
Antony and the Johnson’s “The Crying Light” was released Tuesday, and Pitchfork.tv premiered the striking video for the track “Epilepsy Is Dancing.” It’s a remarkable work, conceived by the Wachowski Brothers, with painters Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paradiso creating the costumes and Sean Dorsey doing the choreography. The “Deer Monster” character is played by Antony’s […]
If nothing else, this week’s political transition has improved musicial productivity — at least when it comes to songs saluting Barack Obama. DJ/producer Adam Freeland, who splits his time between England and Los Angeles, has mashed up Daft Punk and come up with “Aer OBAMA.” The stop-motion video comes courtesy of directors Richard Farmer and […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Dolly Parton on this holiday Monday …] Shapes up as a rather light night, concert-wise, unless you like your music free. The three Eastside resident bands are still going strong, and they have some fine guests too. L.A. alt-folk quintet the Amateurs [that’s their newish video for “Omaha Nights” above] […]
[I was checking out the digital Indie’s stream just now and an Editors song dropped out right in the middle, a cumbia song started playing for about 30 seconds, then the stream cut back to a Shins song …] [And LA Weekly’s blog has a statement from Steve Jones here.] Mark Sovel, aka Mr. Shovel, […]
[I have updated this post to include a photograph taken in 2004 by one of my old colleagues, Jonathan Alcorn. And (at 4 p.m.) updating one more time: At the end of the post is a video of the on-air announcement uploaded to YouTube by Yahoo’s Lyndsey Parker. The announcer, by the way, is a […]
I’m pretty sure that if Ida Maria were plying her trade around Los Angeles, industry wonks would be whispering about how she ought to get vocal lessons and drop 30 pounds. Thankfully, the 24-year-old rocker is from the small town of Nensa, in Norway, and is now based in Sweden, where, ostensibly, a healthy dose […]
[Blowing out birthday candles today: the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne. Now that’d be some party …] Norwegian punk songstress Ida Maria [that’s her video for “Oh My God,” above] turned more than a few heads at Spaceland on Monday night, and I heard a several people saying they were adjusting their plans to catch the […]
It’s the Know Your Local Geography Quiz: The album “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand” comes out Jan. 26, and video for the Scottish post-punkers’ new single is “Ulysses” (which debuted today on Spinner) bounces around the Eastside, including Spaceland and Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, along with the obligatory glimpse of the 2nd Street Tunnel downtown, frolicking […]
