If The xx were injected with some of Daughter’s human touches, they might sound a bit more like U.K. trio London Grammar. The group, comprised of vocalist Hannah Reid, bassist Dan Rothman and keyboard player/drummer Dot Major, brood in a similar fashion, but Reid’s love for classic pop singers such as Whitney Houston take London […]
Raw Geronimo’s debut album “Dream Fever” sounds like the sum of many dreams, only some of them feverish. The band surfaced two years ago as the vehicle for the songwriting of multi-instrumentalist and sonic adventurer Laena Geronimo, whose exploits in myriad L.A. bands of both the pop and experimental variety inform the cerebral and visceral […]
HOTT MT stands for “Hour of the Time, Majesty Twelve,” and the Los Angeles quintet is best known for its auspicious beginnings: The principals showed up unannounced on Wayne Coyne’s Oklahoma City doorstep to give him their album as a birthday present. While (surprisingly) welcoming them, he called them “weirdos,” which should tell you something. […]
Let’s get this Monday started: ‣ Future Bible Heroes visit the Echo, but without a turn from principal songwriter Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), who continues to suffer the effects of an ear ailment that makes it painful for him to perform live. Future Bible Heroes’ new album “Partygoing” is just out on Merge (who also […]
Incoming: Future Bible Heroes, Todd Rundgren, Western Lows, Tokimonsta, the Webb Brothers, Amadou & Miram, Queen Latifah, Crash Kings, Yes, Surfer Blood, Inc., Ximena Sariñana, Incan Abraham, Olafur Arnalds, Portugal. The Man, Akron/Family, Hunter Hunted, Say Anything, Vieux Farka Touré, Young Dubliners, Las Cafeteras, Lightning in a Bottle festival Slightly Stoopid, Colbie Caillat, Psychedelic Furs, […]
Join me at 7 p.m. on KCSN for this week’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show, an hour of SoCal music that’ll cure your holiday weekend hangover before you even wake up with one. There’s new music this week from ex-Submarines siren Blake Hazard, the Happy Hollows, Johnathan Rice, Ten Brutes, Sunken Ships and Raw Geronimo, along […]
Sunday Things: ‣ It’s a night of hip hop at the Greek Theatre with LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Public Enemy and De La Soul all joining each other on stage. ‣ The New LA Folk Fest hosts a special evening at the historic Golden West Church by presenting John C Reilly, Tom Brosseau [pictured] and […]
Oh, hey! It’s still the weekend: ‣ RX Bandits [pictured] are just starting out their tour celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their album “The Resignation,” and tonight they stop by the Fonda Theatre. Special guests Northern Faces join them on the road. ‣Â Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson headlines the Greek Theatre where he’ll be playing […]
For a decade or so, guitarist Mike Haliechuk and drummer Jonah Falco have played in the Toronto hardcore outfit F*cked Up, helping the band rise from scrappy undergrounders to critical darlings and Polaris Prize winners. The songs that the duo wrote outside the band have taken shape, with the help of singer Tim Westberg (of […]
As the frontman of the Broken Remotes, singer-guitarist Jonathan Leahy did indie-rock really well – the 2009 single “Boxer’s Arm” still inspires a rush of blood after these many years (and it’s easy to imagine the band’s 2006 album punked-out for today’s garage scene). These days, Leahy is opening up a different vein as Ten […]
