Kodak To Graph is the nom de tune of Michael Maleki, a transplanted Floridian whose almost-anything-goes compositions combine organic instrumentation with electronic wizardry and samples. The L.A.-based artist just released a full album for free download — “ISA” runs the gamut from intensely filmic to whimsical and wonderful. Either way, it’s powerful stuff, as is the […]
I feel like I misplaced April. Where did it go? I started the month off on a big road trip, slipped into the annual Coachella coma, then spent the past couple of weeks under a rock (actually, under the bed covers, mostly), nursing some sort of illness and falling further and further behind writing about […]
Happy International Workers Day: ► They Might Be Giants have brought back Dial-a-Song, released the new album “Glean” in April, given away a live album as a free download, and now they visit downtown’s Regent Theater at the midway point of a long national tour. ► Sleater-Kinney is back for a second night at the […]
Attendance at last week’s ninth Stagecoach Country Music Festival topped 200,000, according to several reports, and fans got a lot of variety for their bucks. Mainstream stars such as Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw [top photo] and Blake Shelton were joined by veterans such as Merle Haggard, Gregg Allman, ZZ Top, Mickey Gilley, Eric Burdon & […]
Your Thursday shows: ► Sleater-Kinney headlines the Hollywood Palladium behind their new album “No Cities to Love.” It’s the first of the trio’s two-night stand there, and Body/Head and Ian Rubbish open. Above, “A New Wave” hit’s “Bob’s Burgers.” ► French chanteuse Keren Ann will unveil some new material as well as perform selections from […]
Cayucas, the breezy musical vehicle of twins Zach and Ben Yudin, return June 23 with “Dancing at the Blue Lagoon,” their sophomore album for Secretly Canadian. The brothers made the album, the follow-up to 2013’s “Bigfoot,” at the celebrated Bear Creek studio in Washington State with producer Ryan Hadlock (the Lumineers), yet the new single […]
Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco — aka De Lux, aka Those Nice Lads From Down the Block in Echo Park Who Played Every Show You Attended in 2014 — are stretching their wings. It’s only been a year since the dance-punk revivalists released their debut album “Voyage,” and this week they announced their sophomore effort […]
The wide, wide (and we mean wide) world of Wednesday: ► Swedish folk singer José González visits the Regent Theater behind “Vestiges & Claws,” his first album in seven years. Olof Arnalds opens. ► Metal giants Mastodon bring “The Missing Link Your,” a joint jaunt with Clutch, to the Palladium. ► Electro pioneers the Orb, […]
L.A. native Nicky Blitz, born Nick Scapa, cut his teeth in Miami, where he attended the University of Miami and was a cog in some songwriting machines, penning tunes for films, TV shows, ad agencies and other artists. [See this interesting narrative.] His polyglot tastes (and talents) are on display on the new, self-released “Hawk” […]
The new single from The Moth & the Flame is a roof-rattler the L.A. quartet have been playing in concerts for several months now, “Young & Unafraid.” The band — Utah ex-pats Brandon Robbins (guitars and vocals), Mark Garbett (keyboards and vocals) and Andrew Tolman drums) along with L.A. cohort Michael Goldman on bass — […]