‣ John Grant, whose new album “Pale Green Ghosts” (which features vocal contributions from Sinead O’Connor) has won widespread and deserved acclaim, headlines the Echo, with Craig Wedren supporting. That’s the video for the title track, above. ‣ The early-bird residency has KING and Moses Sumney returning to the Bootleg for Week 3 (doors at […]
Incoming: Camera Obscura, John Grant, Alice Smith, 3OH!3, Peter Tork, Pitbull, Mount Kimbie, Eleanor Friedberger, Kinks’ Tribute, Ida Maria, Kisses, Warships, Joseph Arthur, Vans Warped Tour, Steve Miller Band, Holy Folk, the Dig, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, La Santa Cecilia, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Jonathan Wilson, Bleu, the Game, Iris DeMent, […]
It’s still a few days until the official start of summer, but we’re already feeling it at Buzz Bands LA HQ. Tonight’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) will feature brand-new tunes from Johnette Napolitano, A House for Lions and yOya, along with a trio of tunes fit for Father’s […]
Father’s Day fare: ‣ The legendary Peter Case of the Plimsouls (and the Nerves) does a show at the Echoplex backed by Santa Cruz quartet Deep Ellum. Gap Dream and Gasoline Silver are also on the bill. ‣ Barry Manilow does the last of his three nights at the Greek Theatre ‣ Heavy Blanket – […]
Here’s what’s ahead on Saturday: ‣ This year’s first edition Chinatown Summer Nights celebrates Chinatown’s 75th anniversary, with Nightmare & the Cat headlining the LA Weekly Local Music Stage (at 11 p.m.). The event kicks off at 5 p.m., and a statue of Bruce Lee will be dedicated at 7:45. The live music lineup features […]
Kristina ”˜Teeny” Lieberson was originally the keyboardist for Brooklyn band Here We Go Magic, but ever since she recruited her sister Katharine and Lizzie and friend Jane Herships for her own project, we’ve been hearing more of her psychedelic side. Appropriately naming the band TEEN, these four ladies have been churning out summer ditties drenched […]
Robert Preston Collum moved from Brooklyn to Venice this spring – “to live near the ocean, ’cause who doesn’t want that,” he says – leaving behind his NYC duo Anything But Animals and bringing with a new nom de tune Pink Mexico. And a new album, the dyslexia-embracing “PNIK MXEICO,” which at times sounds like […]
The gripping video for the new Dekades song “You & Him” can be interpreted a lot of different ways, but director Aaron Paustian finds a way to unveil some light at the end of the darkness. The clip stars Margot Dayan and Harwood Gordon, with Dekades’ mastermind herself Arden Fisher materializing at the end. The […]
Ever since she stood in front of a mic three decades ago in the embryonic stages of Concrete Blonde, Johnette Napolitano has had one of those stop-you-in-your-tracks voices, a quaver that commands, or challenges, or suggests, or sometimes all three at once. Now ensconced in the desert, the songwriter/artist/author/provocateur is culling years of songs, old […]
It’s easy to imagine composer Chris Schlarb in a white lab coat, surrounded by Bunson burners, a glint in his eye. If not out-and-out magic, what Schlarb practices in his Long Beach studio is musical alchemy, a cerebral yet somehow sensual voyage to world unfettered by boundaries. Schlarb debuted his ambient experimentation “Psychic Temple” back […]