Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, Quetzal and Taylor McFerrin highlight the lineup for the 16th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival on Saturday, Oct. 4, along Colorado Boulevard in the northeast L.A. neighborhood. The festival, which shrank a bit last year because of underfunding, is back in a big way in 2014. A $10 donation is suggested; […]
Last month, London-based Kevin Martin (aka The Bug) released his fourth album, “Angels & Devils.” The album’s sessions produced nearly 160 demos and versions, so Martin is releasing an EP culling together some of the leftovers, titled “Exit.” One of the standouts is “Black Wasp,” featuring Liz Harris of Grouper on vocals; she collaborated on […]
Thursday’s fun: ‣ The free Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier says goodbye with its 10th and final show of 2014 – it features soul man Charles Bradley along with New Orleans’ King James & the Special Men. ‣ Swans and Carla Bozulich do a second night at the Roxy Theatre. ‣ Formidable rock […]
Add this one to your free concert calendar: Damien Jurado, the Record Company, Los Amigos Invisibles and Salt Petal will perform on Saturday, Oct. 11, at Taste of South Lake, a food and music festival in Pasadena. The event, promoted by local businesses in the retail district, will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 […]
Brighton’s the Kooks have just released their fourth album “Listen” via Astralwerks Records. First track and one of three singles “Around Town†is a perfectly catchy opener and a good indicator of the unexpected album to come. With funky grooves and synth, the Kooks really begin to show off their new change. Leaving their previous […]
Cathedrals‘ latest single “Ooo Aaa” may come with an excessively onomatopoeic song title, but its members Brodie Jenkins and Johnny Hwin know how to turn a smokey rock ballad into an electro banger for the dance floor. The San Francisco-based duo has been shooting up the Hype Machine charts with the track along with the […]
Lili Haydn describes her new album “LiliLand” as “fun, fragile, and ferocious songs about losing everything and getting it back.†In the case of the singer, songwriter and rock violinist nonpareil, that’s not hyperbole. The album, her fourth and first in six years, “was recorded in the four years following a freak chemical accident in […]
British DJ Bonobo [pictured], for many one of the highlights of last April’s Coachella, Les Sins, the Chaz Bundick (Toro Y Moi) side project that underwhelmed at August’s FYF Fest, and acclaimed indie-rocker Tom Vek head up the lineup for KCRW’s Masquerade, the station’s annual Halloween fundraiser. The event, which features circus troupes, burlesque performers, […]
Buffalo-born, Orange County-based singer-songwriter Stacy Clark is back with her third album “Symmetry,” a collection of electro-pop with a real skip in its step. Clark has a knack for writing upbeat summery songs with a mainstream sensibility and a sound perfect for teen-drama soundtracks. Opener and first single “Figured It Out†is catchy with Clark’s […]
No sooner had we reported Francisco the Man’s big “Progress” – there was finally a full-length album imminent – than the L.A. indie-rock quartet made even bigger progress. The band has been picked up by the Fat Possum label, and FTM’s album “Loose Ends,” originally scheduled to come out later this month, will come out Oct. […]