As they gear up for a summer festival tour (featuring a hologram Ol’ Dirty Bastard) and on the heels of their triumphant Coachella performances, the Wu-Tang Clan are back in the studio at work on a new project titled “A Better Tomorrow,” due out this fall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their classic debut “Enter […]
Anybody else remember how monumentally special Nine Inch Nails’Â “Wave Goodbye” night on Sept. 11, 2009 at the Wiltern Theatre felt? Turns out it was just a goodbye-for-now. How to Destroy Angels mastermind Trent Reznor has brought his other project out of mothballs, announcing Wednesday that a new NIN album “Hesitation Marks” would be out Sept. […]
Your Thursday show highlights: ‣ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers do the third of their six nights at at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Big night for Capital Cities – behind their debut album “In a Tidal Wave of Mystery,” they appear on “Conan” tonight and headline the sold-out El Rey Theatre, with Gold Fields and […]
Cold War Kids‘ clip for their latest single “Loner Phase” may look like a lyric video on the surface, but the man scribbling behind the screen is actually Matt Maust, who had quite the graphic design portfolio even before he took up bass for the L.A. quartet. If the color combinations and penmanship look familiar, […]
Song groupings for $1,000, please: “Kids” by MGMT, “Where the Kids Are” by Blondfire, “Naked Kids” by Grouplove, “Kids” by the New Division. And now to make it a furious five, “We’re the Kids” by L.A. trio Parade of Lights. For better or worse, all embrace the notion of fleeting youth and the fuzzy nostalgia […]
Shame on us for not paying closer attention. Turns out long-running indie-rock outfit Sebadoh sneaked an EP onto Bandcamp last year, a five-song volley that, as advertised, will transport old-schoolers back to the band’s “Bakesale” days. Today the band announced that its first new album in 14 years, “Defend Yourself,” will come out Sept 17 […]
You’ve been on those long drives where it feels as if the car is actually being propelled by the stereo and not an internal combustion engine, right? So it is with the seen-better-days Honda in director Steve Hanft’s video for the Radar Brothers’ “If We Were Banished.” Inspired or inhabited by the song, the […]
Like so many gifted DJs, Brooklyn-based Jeremy Malvin has both a background rooted in percussion, as well as a healthy synth obsession. Malvin records and performs under the moniker Chrome Sparks, creating blissed-out electronica ranging in demeanors from celebratory (“Luna Luxor”) to comatose (“Marijuana”). His recently released “Sparks” EP treads on terrain touched by Teen […]
Midweek fun: ‣ Bjork brings “Biophila” back for another night at the Hollywood Palladium. ‣ Brooklyn punk-rockers Parquet Courts [pictured], who were one of our SXSW highlights, visit the Echo, supported by Shark Toys. ‣ Jewel’s “Greatest Hits Tour” visits the Saban Theatre. ‣ Good local bill at the Satellite featuring Parade of Lights, Modern […]
It’s been almost two years since PAPA released their undeniably catchy tune “I Am the Lion King.” Since then they’re been relentlessly touring its EP, “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find.” Now they’re finally preparing for the release of their debut, which is slated for late summer 2013. The speedy soulful tune “Put Me […]
