New music from Kisses, Draemings, Touché, Ten Brutes, Amanda Jo Williams and Steelwells is on the midday menu for today’s Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio. There will be a couple of other surprises too – wait until you hear the new song from the forthcoming album by Bleu – as I dish out […]
Two local bands who recently released their debut albums – Bleached [pictured] and Cayucas – along with rapper RiFF RAFF, have been added to the lineup for the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival. They join the Drums, Black Lips, Trash Talk, Free Energy and Kitten atop the lineup for the June 7-8 event in downtown […]
Friday night, what else to say? ‣ Indie R&B sensations Rhye play to a sold-out El Rey Theatre behind their acclaimed debut “Woman.” ‣ Her new album “Girl Talk” just out in May, Kate Nash headlines the Troubadour. ‣ Bay Area prog rockers Tea Leaf Green, whose new album “In the Wake” comes out next […]
Steelwells resurfaced in 2012 with the same lineup but with a slightly different sound on their “Cool Kids” EP. The Orange County-based quintet continue to work within this bold, new sound palette and share another new track titled “Dead Song.” Recorded live at Lost Ark Studios in San Diego, its tone is, again, less jovial […]
Kurt Vile took the stage Tuesday night at the jam-packed Echoplex looking as if he just walked out of his “Never Run Away” video – maybe his all-white persona is here to stay. As he did at Coachella, Vile delivered his songs from beneath his voluminous hair, keeping it low-key and letting the music, rather […]
L.A.-based singer-songwriter Maxime Sokolinski – who’s played in his big sister Soko’s band, as well as with Daniel Johnston, Adanowsky and L.A.’s Sweaters – stepped out of the shadows in 2011 when he released a little bedroom pop gem, “Feels Like,” anonymously, to YouTube. The 25-year-old has spent recent months back in his native France, […]
Get in the thick of it on this Thursday: ‣ Three decades into its career and still going strong, Yo La Tengo visits the Fonda Theatre behind their 13th album, “Fade.” ‣ Big hometown show for rock quartet Dead Sara, who’ve become road warriors since releasing their debut last year. Emily Armsrong and gang headline […]
Summer weather has arrived in L.A., and shoegazing duo Cobalt Cranes take an appropriate drive in their self-directed music video for “Head in the Clouds.” There’s nothing like a driving into the desert with the top down, but what do you do when you see something glowing in neon colors? If it resembles anything close […]
For days now I’ve been holed up with “Trouble Will Find Me,” the forthcoming sixth album from the National (out May 21 via 4AD). It’s the latest opus in what has become a 12-year hexalogy from the NYC-via-Cincinnati quintet of Matt Berninger, Scott and Bryan Devendorf and Bryce and Aaron Dessner. The literary allusions are […]
The L.A. trio Rucky Punch is not the first local outfit to indulge their Talking Heads fetish, and they probably won’t be the last. But in their own slightly goofball, punk-rock, lo-fi way, they’ve nailed it on their new single. The brainchild of John Predny (Underground Railroad to Candyland), Zack Thompson (Selling LA) and Rukio […]