Oh, the brooding. The xx won a Mercury Prize for their self-titled debut in 2010, and they continue to go strong with melancholic atmospherics on their the sophomore record “Coexist” (out now via Young Turks). Young Replicant, a/k/a Alex Takacs, also returns as director for clip accompanying the xx’s track “Fiction” to further illustrate Oliver Sim […]
Those high school days as just another surf-punk band are fading into distant memories for Orange County’s Hindu Pirates. Although the new tightly wound guitar rock from the quintet of Austin Ferreira, Casey Snyder, Giuseppe LoBasso, Derek Bostelman and Ben Tinsley still carries the faint scene of the ocean, the single “In the Dark” suggests […]
Night Riots, though unsigned and independent, are not exactly new; as PK, the hard-working quintet has been and in out of its San Luis Obispo County hometown of Templeton spreading the gospel of synth-charged arena rock for several years, fashioning a sound that suggest a glove compartment full of Killers and Cure CDs. But last […]
Think of today’s Buzz Bands LA Show as a Weekend Preview – starting at 11 a.m. today on Moheak Radio, I’ll have a heaping helping of music from bands playing the Jubilee Music Festival today and Saturday in downtown L.A. In fact, I’ll kick off the show with three segments devoted to the Jubilee, including […]
There is Michael Quattlebaum, he, a cross-dressing half-Jewish gay black man performance artist and poet; and there is Mykki Blanco, she, the fierce female acid punk rapper alter ego, who shows multiple sides of her persona on the eclectic eight-track EP, “‘Betty Rubble: The Initiation.” She has stated her four role models are GG Allin, […]
Somewhere between the bright colors of cosmic country and the dolorous shadows of pop noir lies the music of White Dove. The L.A. trio of Alex Johnstone, Jack Long, Carl Harders spent much of the past decade going by the name Monster, cultivating ethereal vignettes around the delicate quaver of Johnstone, who sings like she’s […]
So much Friday fun: ‣ Jubilee Music & Arts Festival, the 2-day with street festival between Santa Fe Ave. and 6th St. in downtown L.A., kicks off today with acts such as the Black Lips, Trash Talk, Bleached, Free Energy, Kitten and many more.  Check out the complete set times here. ‣ Capital Cities, Gold Fields and DWNTWN all return […]
Despite what Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, says of “Funtimes in Babylon” – “Music videos don’t need blurbs.  It’s like putting a brief summary before a Garfield comic strip,” he asserts in the press blast – we’re going to say something anyway. The VHS-styled clip, co-directed with Grant James (who also helmed “This Is […]
Fans who can’t get enough of candy-coated electro-pop and its big hooks and its saccharine melodies and its cherubic gang vocals will want to latch onto FMLYBAND. Fans who immediately recognize that “Electricity” plunders M83’s “Midnight City” are going to want to break a glowstick in two. There’s not much more to say than that, […]
It wasn’t that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were so astonishingly proficient on Monday at the Fonda Theatre (they were), or that they had the moxie to do what few other artists who date back to the Carter Administration try – do a concert that doesn’t pander to fans who want nothing but the hits. […]
