To alliterate, it’s a mondo Monday: ‣ Jaded Incorporated – the new collaboration between Mayer Hawthorne and 14KT (songwriter/producer Kendall Tucker) – plays its first live gig at It’s a School Night at Bardot behind their debut album “The Big Knock.” Seattle’s Beat Connection, Washington, D.C., quintet Brett and Portland’s Exroyale also join in. ‣ Value-added […]
Incoming: Lolipalooza, Jaded Incorporated, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Steve Winwood, the Moth & the Flame, Spanish Gold, Delta Rose, Movement, Isaiah Rashad, Ty Dolla $ign, Quantic, the Wallburds, Sly & Robbie, Taylor Locke Band, Ian McLagan, Fuck Button, Somekindawonderful, Pure X, Tigers Jaw, David Poe, the Thermals, Kurupt, Very Be Careful, Colin Hay, […]
Sunset Strip icons Jane’s Addiction and Australian electro/metal showmen Empire of the Sun will co-headline the seventh annual Sunset Strip Music Festival – which moves to two days this year, Sept. 20 and 21, in West Hollywood. With original members Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, Jane’s Addiction will mark the 25th anniversary of […]
Join me at 9 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) as I try to avoid defensive lapses on the L.A. Buzz Bands Show. I’ll have songs from forthcoming albums by Kitten, Avi Buffalo, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Madi Diaz, Bad Suns, White Fence, Imperial Mammoth and Buddy, along with tunes from Tapioca & the Flea, […]
Your Sunday itinerary: ‣ Janelle Monáe headlines as the KCRW World Festival series kicks off at the Hollywood Bowl. The soul/funk/hip-hop diva will be joined by Seun Kuti, the son of Fela who will be leading his father’s band Egypt 80, along with Roman GianArthur. ‣ Talib Kweli holds forth at the Echoplex, supported by […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ It’s a big night at the Hollywood Bowl with Broadway actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth, the Go-Go’s and Pink Martini. ‣ Kuenta i Tambú (aka KIT) provides the sounds at the Getty Center as part of the Saturdays Off the 405 series. ‣ If you’re looking for an outdoor show a little closer to […]
Alt-J‘s 2012 debut “An Awesome Wave” ended up making the top of many year-end lists (including this one). The album release paved the way for a fruitful year; not only did they win the Mercury Prize but their performances fusing trip-hop, psych-rock and pop gained them a solid worldwide following. The Leeds-based band now returns […]
When Madi Diaz first unveiled her single “Stay Together” last August, it was clear the singer-songwriter was giving up her grounded-in-roots music to see if she could soar with the dream-pop birds. Judging from that song and the new “The Other Side,” she sounds fine in the clouds. “Stay Together” and “The Other Side” (with […]
Singer-songwriter Colby Miller and L.A.-based producer-beatmaker Neal Harris “met” years ago on an Elliott Smith message board, eventually remaining in touch via social media. Now the pair are long-distance collaborators as Seagoat, with a fan-funded full-length album in the works. With Harris fleshing out and arranging Miller’s demos, Seagoat’s music veers toward tasteful, genteel electro-pop, […]
Nineteen-year-old folk singer Phoebe Bridgers saw her already-rising profile spike this spring when she appeared in an iPhone commercial covering the Pixies’ “Gigantic.” Those who knew her for acoustic gems such as “Waiting Game” might have been surprised to see her channel her inner Kim Deal (everybody has one of those, right?), but her EP […]
