How to get wowed on a Wednesday: ‣ Aloe Blacc [pictured], D’Angelo, Angélique Kidjo and Bettye LaVette are the special guests at the Hollywood Bowl for “Get On Up: A James Brown Celebration,” which features Christian McBride as musical director and a host of people who once played in Brown’s band. ‣When’s that debut album […]
Allah-Las will return Sept. 16 with their sophomore effort “Worship the Sun” via Innovative Leisure. To follow up their 7-inch single “501-415,” the psychedelic garage-rock quartet releases the video for its b-side “No Werewolf.” The tune itself is a cover of a song by the Frantics, but the video is actually the work of Russian […]
The last time we heard from Orenda Fink, she had teamed up once more with Maria Taylor for Azure Ray’s “As Above So Below” EP in 2012. Fink now returns with new material in anticipation of her third solo studio album “Blue Dream.” Angelic had always been one of Fink’s alluring qualities, and her ability […]
We first spotted WAZ as Pete Yorn’s guitarist way back when, and we last saw him co-directing musical traffic in the electro-pop trio Hot As Sun, with his wife Jamie Jackson. In between, the Cleveland native released two albums and an EP (2008-09) and carved out a swath as a composer for film and television. […]
Tuesday night, you look so good in the future: ‣ Justin Timberlake plays the Staples Center. So there. ‣ FKA Twigs, the nom de tune of London-based Tahliah Barnett, releases her debut album “LP1” today, and headlines the El Rey Theatre tonight. Above, the video for “Two Weeks.” ‣ L.A. quartet Dear Boy showcases some […]
Few boy/girl duos have negotiated the sometimes vast chasm between boy and girl as Annalee Fery and Christian Stone have on their self-titled debut album as Howls. On the album, which came out in May, the longtime collaborators – once of the Lonely Trees, and separately of Monsters Are Waiting and Campfire Girls, respectively – fashion brooding […]
Summer’s not over until Goldroom releases a new single, it seems. Songwriter/producer Josh Legg teams up with Australian vocalist Mammals on the breezy new “Till Sunrise,” a song that already has 30 remixes because of a campaign Legg did called “The Premix” – offering the song’s vocal stem for free download. The song, Goldroom’s first original […]
With the release of last fall’s self-titled EP, L.A. quartet Dear Boy distanced themselves from the alt-rock masses, with singer-guitarist Ben Grey and mates Austin Hayman, Nils Bue and Keith Cooper affirming their new band identity by injecting some Anglophile-friendly edginess into their pop grandiosity. And so it goes with the anthemic “Hesitation Waltz,” a […]
Outside Lands 2014 roared to a big finish on Sunday, with the Killers closing out the main stage (but not allowing photographers) by covering “Bad Moon Rising” and welcoming Danielle Haim to guest on drums for “On Top.” Jenny Lewis delivered a winning set, as did Brooklyners Lucius. Chvrches canceled their set due to travel […]
Here’s what’s up on a fabulous Monday: ‣ It’s a night of female singer-songwriters at at the Greek Theatre – Sara Bareilles headlines behind her latest album, 2013’s “The Blessed Unrest,” with Canada’s Hannah Georgas and the soulful Emily King opening. ‣ Australian DJ/producer Flume, who rocked two shows in L.A. last week before detouring […]
