Alex Brown Church has said that much of his third album as Sea Wolf – “Old World Romance,” released last September on Dangerbird Records – was informed by his move back to California after spending a couple years in Montreal. And so it is with the video for “Old Friend,” which Church made with director […]
Monday’s things: ‣ Wolfmother is back for one more round at the Troubadour. Get there early to see singer-songwriter Kieran Leonard. ‣ So many residencies, so little time. Crashing the Miner residency at the Bootleg Bar tonight is Florida’s Roadkill Ghost Choir, whose indie twang has earned comparisons to Wilco, My Morning Jacket and a […]
Incoming: Wolfmother, the Postal Service, Savages, Bastille, Davis Fetter, Futurebirds, PAPA, the Happy Hollows, NO, Candlebox, the 1975, Big Freedia, Hockey, Saint Motel, the Belle Brigade, Modest Mouse, Skylar Grey, No Age, Night Terrors of 1927, Glassjaw, Dan Wilson, Twin Shadow, Bauhaus, Rancid, Viva Pomona, International Pop Overthrow, the Cult, Courtney Love, Frightened Rabbit, Fitz […]
Tonight’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN will salute where I am right now – at least as a seeker of good new SoCal music. That means I will premiere a killer song from the forthcoming new album by LA Font, right at the top of the show. But tonight’s hour will also salute where […]
From the start, when a surprisingly large crowd turned out despite threatening skies, to the finish, when Magic Wands drenched music lovers in dreamy melodies, July’s edition of Chinatown Summer Nights was a great party. The bluesy garage-rock of the Dead Ships and the catchy dance-rock of Beat Club earned the biggest roars of the […]
Sunday things: ‣ Pink Martini [pictured] returns for another night at the Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter Tony Allen headlines the Mayan Theater. ‣ The Grand Ole Echo presents I See Hawks in LA, John Lafayette Ramey, Calico and Jeff Crosby at the Echo earlier in the day, while the evening slot […]
By Joseph Giuliano Boasting a new location – Lake Skinner Park near Temecula – but its same emphasis on community, connectivity, art and music, the Lightning in a Bottle Festival again proved a novel experience last weekend. Each uniquely designed stage had a particular theme: The Lightning Stage has tall LED pillars that lit up […]
Wow, what a Saturday: ‣ It’s time for another night of free music and fun downtown – 2013’s second installment of Chinatown Summer Nights goes off in an around Chinatown’s Central Plaza tonight. On the Buzz Bands LA-curated LA Weekly Live Music Stage are Magic Wands, Beat Club, the Dead Ships, Dear Boy, Haunted Summer […]
Need something to help you wind down from the work week and gear up for the weekend? Greg Sheran and Nick Kosearas – aka Dream Panther – have got you covered with their hilariously-titled EP, “Beyonce’s Child.” Although one can’t be sure if Blue Ivy and her parents dig it, fans of woozy electronica, psychedelic […]
“Tiger’s Remorse,” the B-side of the new single from Youth Code, serves as a perfect introduction to the L.A. duo, because achieves so many of the sonic contradictions sought after by Ryan William George and Sara Taylor. The track’s writhing vocals from captivating, gritty glamour queen Sara Taylor are suffocated by mechanical groans and abnormally […]
