Enough about the weather, OK? Join me at 9 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) for this week’s breezy installment of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show, featuring new music from Dream Boys, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Imaginary Persons, Bonson Berner and the Spires. We’ll hear from recent favorites Carly Ritter, Johnathan Rice and PAPA too […]
Sunday things:Â ‣ Lisa Marie Presley stops in town to play the El Rey Theatre in support of her latest album “Storm & Grace.” The Deadlies support. ‣ R&B singer of the Gap Band fame, Charlie Wilson, headlines the Los Angeles County Fair. ‣ Sister Rogers, Bobby London and Los Cratrs all team up at […]
Electro-pop campaigners YACHT were typically a spectacle on Thursday night at the Troubadour, drawing a big crowd into their world, their beliefs system and their unified cry for utopian state. After their performance, it is hard to think LA without Shangri-LA. Their encore featured their release, “Party at the NSA,” which singer Claire Evans explained […]
Here’s the steamy schedule for tonight: ‣ Austin punk rockers Riverboat Gamblers roar into the Satellite behind their most recent album “The Wolf You Feed …” Blacklist Royals and Moral Crux support. That’s Riverboat Gamblers’ video for “Blue Ghosts,” above. ‣ The Shakers headline the Troubadour to celebrate their new album “Rescue Team,” which comes […]
Emily Gold‘s “Running Back To You” explores a well-worn theme for romantic singer-songwriters, but that shouldn’t deter a listener from enjoying the arching folk melodies she writes to accompany her dulcet vocals. Her talents also prove that the apple doesn’t fall from the tree. Gold comes from impressive lineage including: her late father Andrew Gold […]
With only a few singles floating around within the last year, Wildcat! Wildcat! fans have had to put those songs on repeat. That is, until now. The L.A.-based electro-soul trio announces the release of their self-titled debut EP along with a brand new song titled “Garden Grays.” “It’s all on the table,” they sing with […]
It’s too hot to type, so maybe I’ll just save my energy for the Buzz Bands LA Show, which kicks off at 11 a.m. on The Independent FM. However, I am obligated here to encourage you to tune in to my weekly excursion for new songs from Dream Boys, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Jesus Sons, Imaginary Persons, […]
It’s a marriage made in pop heaven. The debut album from L.A.-based quartet Dream Boys conjoins the woozy wonder of West Coast psych-pop with the jangling innocence of the British indie movement – a ’60s-meets-’80s-meets-now formula that will leave guitar purists a bit giddy, if not scrambling to dig out all those C86 compilations. The […]
Plenty to do on this Friday: ‣ Jenny O. headlines the Skirball Center’s “Into the Night” series, with In the Valley Below and Body Parts opening. KCRW DJ Travis Holcombe will also spin on a night that also features crafts, zoo animals and, of course, the Skirball’s exhibitions. ‣ The Regeneration Tour brings Erasure’s Andy […]
If you’re going through some My Bloody Valentine withdrawal after FYF Fest, Tape Deck Mountain may be the next best thing. Back in May, the Brooklyn via San Diego trio of fuzz aficionados helmed by Travis Trevisan released the roaring “Always Lie” in anticipation of their sophomore record and follow-up to their “Slow Salvation” EP. […]
