Eighteen months after their audacious debut “Bite the Bullet,” L.A. quartet Black Hi-Lighter return next week with a second full-length, “Looks and Lies” – another record that feels like it’s part of rock ’n’ roll history although most of rock ’n’ roll history has already been written. The work of singer-guitarist James Poulos, guitarist-producer Eric […]
If you’re just settling back into your office chair after the holiday weekend, here’s a sparkling tune that may help rev your gears back up at the 9-to-5. Moxi, the electro-pop duo of Anna Nelson and Andy Toy, return with yet another single in anticipation of their forthcoming EP, “Through the Dark.” (They’ve been releasing a single […]
Tuesday’s show offerings: ‣ Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven, back with a new album “Time Is Over One Day Old,” headline the Echoplex, supported by Young Magic and Miles Cooper Seaton. Above, Bean in Heaven’s new video for “Time Above.” ‣ My Bloody Valentine acolytes Whirr bring their heavy shoegazing at the Echo, supported by ACxDC […]
After being championed by Mayor Eric Garcetti this spring, the inaugural Made In America music festival took over Grand Park and surrounding streets this Labor Day weekend, attracting some 34,000 people on Saturday and 37,000 people on Sunday to downtown L.A. With entrances on Temple and 2nd Streets, the Marilyn main stage was situated facing […]
Listening to Hobart W Fink’s debut full-length “Back and Forth Forever” can be like being a fly on the wall while your coupled friends duke it out over how the laundry was folded. The relationship tensions on the aptly named album run much deeper than that, though, as principals Jayk Gallagher and Lauren Lakis trade […]
Happy first of the month: ‣ George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe highlight the lineup at the Long Beach Funk Fest, going off at the Queen Mary. There’s plenty more, including Katdelic, the Meters Experience, Delta Nove, Music Man Miles Tackett, Subsuelo and Dam-Funk (DJ set). ‣ Jesse McCartney visits the […]
Incoming:Â Long Beach Funk Fest (George Clinton, Karl Denson), Jesse McCartney, KChung Fest, Bear in Heaven, Whirr, James David, Glen Martin, Stiff Little Fingers, David Gray, Leslie Stevens, Strand of Oaks, Zachariah & the Lobos Riders, Shiny Toy Guns, OK Go, City & Colour, Neon Trees, WAZ, Mother Falcon, Kins, Brian Wright, Senses Fail, Dwight Yoakam, […]
Holiday weekend? What holiday weekend? I’ll be engaged in my regular Sunday labor tonight when the L.A. Buzz Bands Show convenes at 9 o’clock on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). I’ll have music from forthcoming releases by Sneakout, Black Hi-Lighter, the Fontaines and the Luxembourg Signal, along with new tracks from Dear Boy and […]
Here’s the music menu for the final day of August: ‣ It’s Day 2 of the Made In America festival, with Kanye West, John Mayer, Steve Aoki, Rise Against, Chance the Rapper, Juanes, Weezer, Nipsey Hussle, Cypress Hill, Mutemath, SZA, Rita Ora, Scavnger Hunt, Classixx, Borgore, Terraplane Sun and more. It’s all happening at Grand […]
How many times has Ty Segall played the Echo anyhow? Betcha he’s lost count. Betcha this current run of sold-out shows – Friday night was the second of four – rank as some the best. Segall worked himself, and the crowd, into a frenzy on Friday with songs from his new album “Manipulator” and the […]
