Your Tuesday night picks: ‣ Deap Vally, the duo of Lindsay Troy and Julie Edwards whose debut album “Sistrionix” will be out Oct. 8, returns home from their U.K./European exploits to headline the Troubadour. JJUUJJUU opens. ‣ Young Australian indie-poppers San Cisco hit the Echoplex. Get there early for Smallpools and Avid Dancer. ‣ Madi […]
When we saw Carly Ritter in May at the Satellite, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter exhibited the grace and humility of someone enjoying unexpected good fortune. She never thought she’d be doing this, she explained, which sounded as implausible as her songs sounded transcendent. Ritter is the granddaughter of country music legend Tex Ritter (and daughter of […]
In name, the Janks have been around since Gnarls Barkley was the next big thing. But names can be deceiving, and there’s a reason the Los Angeles quartet has titled its new EP “Meet the Janks.” Originally the vehicle for singer-guitarist Zachary Zmed, the Janks got on the radar in 2009 with their second full-length […]
The music of Lo-Fang is like a symphony in miniature, a minimalist collage of plucked strings, massaged notes and spare beats. And Matthew Hemerlein’s voice, a silken instrument that exudes the intimacy of somebody whispering in your ear. A Washington, D.C., transplant who released the album “Hot Nickels” in 2010 under his own name, Hemerlein […]
‣ Sunday’s show at the El Rey still has everyone buzzing, so maybe you’d like to catch Yeasayer again? The Brooklyn-based band visits the Observatory in O.C. tonight. ‣ The Peach Kings and Cloud Control team up at It’s a School Night at Bardot ‣ Kiev continues its residency at the Bootleg Bar, where the […]
Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Echo Park Rising, H2O Music Festival, Buskerfest, the Peach Kings, Yeasayer, Deap Vally, San Cisco, Kopecky Family Band, Rick Ross, Natalie Cole, Kopecky Family Band, Jamie N Commons, the Neighbourhood, the English Beat, Mamak Khadem, No Age, Jonas Brothers, Queens of the Stone Age, Lavender Diamond, Daniel Bedingfield, Ulrich Schnauss, Best […]
It wasn’t hard to imagine exactly how the sold-out Palma Violets show at the Echoplex on Tuesday night was going to go down. The U.K. punk-rock quartet, coming straight off a successful weekend at Lollapalooza, chart-topping singles abroad and acclaim for their debut album “180,” gave the expectant audience exactly what they had waited for […]
Want a fine finish to your feel-good Sunday? Join me at 9 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) for this week’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show. I’ll introduce a couple of new names such as Distant Cousins and Sakes, and there will be fresh tunes from some familiar faces, including Kitten, Jutty Ranx, the […]
Far from trying to curate anything, or even connecting the present to the neighborhood’s rock ’n’ roll legacy, the Sunset Strip Music Festival last Saturday merely offered something for everybody. Fans responded with their pocketbooks and feet: The festival appeared more crowded that 2012’s Motley Crue-headlined party, although promoters put the attendance at the same […]
Super Sunday things: ‣ It’s a been a good week for Medicine fans. The legendary L.A. shoegazers just released a new album titled ” To the Happy Few” – their first full-band record in 20 years – via Captured Tracks, and now they return to the stage at the Echo tonight for Part Time Punks. […]
