Tuesday’s things: ‣ London’s Palma Violets, one of hour highlights at SXSW, visit the Echoplex behind their album “180,” with Twin Peaks opening. ‣ Madi Diaz and Carousel kick off a co-residency at the Bootleg Bar, with Z Berg opening. ‣ Light FM, Moons of Mars and El Elle at Los Globos ‣ Washing Machines, […]
New month, new residencies and all that: ‣ British electro sensations Rudimental, whose appearance at this past weekend’s HARD Summer coincided with the U.S. release of their album “Home,” play It’s a School Night at Bardot, along with Mother Falcon and the Melodic. ‣ Art-rock quintet Kiev, finishing up their debut full-length “Falling Bough Wisdom […]
Incoming: Phish, Rudimental, Palma Violets, Cimorelli, Mac Miller, Action Bronson, Savoir Adore, One Direction, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, James McCartney, Hanni El Khatib, the Heavy, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, the Veils, Lorde, P.O.D., Hall & Oates, Grizzly Bear, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Superhumanoids, Foals, the Living Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Standells, Train, Emeli […]
Just think of tonight’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show as a meet-and-greet session – I’ll have new music from several artists whom, as a famous ’90s hitmaker said, You Oughta Know. In no particular order, they include: Lo-Fang, Moses Sumney, Kiev, Sami, Dear Boy and Yellow Marbles. In addition, I’ll have songs from the forthcoming albums […]
‣ HARD Summer Festival continues over at the Los Angeles State Historic Park with Justice (DJ set), Empire of the Sun [that’s their video for “Alive” above], Flosstradamus, Azealia Banks, Crystal Castles, Bassnectar, Dillon Francis, Baauer, Claude Vonstroke, Busy P and many more. ‣ Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros headlines the Hollywood Bowl where […]
Setting aside your obsession with rock-star divorces, here are tonight’s shows: ‣ Big day on the Sunset Strip: The street fair portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival brings Linkin Park, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wale, AWOLNATION, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, Logic, Asher Roth, Street Drum Corps, Finch, Warren G., Orgy, Andy Clockwise, […]
In “Sea Monster,” L.A.’s Salt Petal has one of those sleeper albums that shouldn’t be slept on, a collection of melting-pot tunes that imagines, perhaps, what Los Angeles should sound like. The quintet swivels between folk and indie rock with tropical and Latin influences, tastefully accented with accordion and trumpet. Both of the latter instruments […]
Folk is the new rock. Either that or we’re just getting emails from people who own banjos, mandolins, slides and harmonicas instead of bands toting Flying V’s. The latest contenders for your Americana hearts are Orange County Music Awards-packing Jeramiah Red, a quintet who only look like they might hail from the hills of Arkansas. […]
Bands that play hide-and-seek with their identities usually have past lives or other lives that god-forbid-we-should-know-about. So it is with ¿Special Guest?, the Los Angeles trio that fell together in a moment of synchronicity when they were assembled to form a backing band. It turns out that the players – Jeff Greenfield, Drew Behj and […]
As with the Mezzanine Owls and other previous projects, singer-guitarist Jack Burnside mines a curious duality on “Glacial,” the debut from his new trio Western Lows. In the fore is a wash of noisy guitar and beneath, only occasionally surfacing, is the soft-spoken Burnside, a shoegazing bard if there ever was one. In the genteel […]