Happy Friday, happy Flag Day and happy 75th anniversary, Chinatown. Today’s Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio will kick off with a little preview of the bands playing the LA Weekly Local Music Stage at Saturday’s opener of this year’s Chinatown Summer Nights Series, where Nightmare & the Cat headlines a six-band lineup that […]
Update (9:50 a.m.): Tickets for tonight’s show are available at Amoeba Hollywood, Fingerprints in Long Beach, Lou’s Records in Encinitas, M-Theory Music in San Diego, Mount Analog in Highland Park, Origami Vinyl in Echo Park, Rhino Records in Claremont and Vacation Vinyl in Silver Lake – with the purchase of “Amok” An announcement on the […]
Here’s your huge Friday: ‣ Barry Manilow does the first of three nights at the Greek Theatre. ‣ Remember the year 2000 and how great the Dandy Warhols’ “Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia” was? They’re performing that album, which just got the deluxe release treatment, tonight at the Wiltern. at the Wiltern ‣ Now ensconced […]
In Adrian Buitenhuis-directed video for Kisses’ dark synth-pop single “Huddle,” the duo turns into a trio when Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson are joined by a little drummer boy named Henry. Aside from the band, it’s not entirely clear why he’s hanging out with two older kids who are about to go to college, but […]
A incredible slate of shows for your Thursday: ‣ BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton visits the Troubadour behind her new album “Sugaring Season,” her first release in six-plus years. James Bay opens. That’s the video for the new Orton song “Magpie,” above. ‣ Fresh off winning a Tony Award. and on the heels of last […]
Those were heady times, 1978. Punk rock had encroached on Los Angeles’ power-pop scene; bands who would come be known as New Wave appeared; and in Chinatown the stage was being set for a venue rivalry between Madame Wong’s and the Hong Kong Cafe. It was then that a five-piece out of Orange County, the […]
Nate Miller in a L.A.-based, Washington, D.C. ex-pat whose late 2012 release “Fall Is Meant for Falling to the Ground” is an amiable mix of up-tempo folk-rock and lovelorn Americana adorned with piano, organ, horns, pedal steel and strings. It was produced by Nate Vaughan, who plays on the album along with more than 15 […]
The news bulletin here is that No Age has made an album. No, not just recordings of guitar, bass, drums and vocals – the actual physical product. For their fourth full-length “An Object,” L.A. noisemeisters Randy Randall and Dean Spunt have taken the mission of making an album literally, right down to designing, manufacturing and […]
Last weekend’s 10th annual Ink-N-Iron Festival had more than its share of vintage culture – classic cars and hot rods, tricked-out bikes, an art show and a fashion bazaar, drawing with thousands of tatted enthusiasts to the Queen Mary Events Center in Long Beach. It had some vintage rock ’n’ roll too, with Iggy & […]
Wednesday’s wonders: ‣ The 88 celebrate the release of their new album “Fortune Teller” with a headlining show at the Troubadour. We think very highly of this record. We also love magician Rob Zabrecky in the video for “I Saw the Light That Day,” above. Gliss and Aaron Embry open tonight’s show. ‣ Radar Bros. […]
