Incoming: Coachella, Rihanna, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Angel Olsen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Broadheds, the Bad Things, Heloise & the Savoir Faire, How to Destroy Angels, Sky Ferreira, Local H, Beach House, Passion Pit, Dave Stewart, yeasayer, Merle Haggard, Savages, the Wanted, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Dianna Reeves, Los Tigres del Norte, […]
Join me at 7 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) for this week’s installment of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show, the Sunday evening salve for all your weekend warring. This edition will feature new music from Hands, Ghost Loft, Cold War Kids, L.A. Girlfriend, Army Navy and Will Courtney, along with recent favorites […]
Sunday things: ‣ The Bootleg Theater hosts the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Psych Fest. This year’s lineup features: Acid Mothers Temple, Lumerians, the Shrine, Jeffertitti’s Nile [pictured above], Dahga Bloom, Sister Calypso, Brainfruit, Ahkiyyini, Strangers Family Band, Midday Veil, Wild Wild Wets, Vinyl Williams and Guy Blakeslee. ‣ Livan Beggars & Believers headline the El Rey Theatre with a […]
The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival, which launched in 2010 as the Silver Lake Jubilee, raised some eyebrows this week when it announced a pre-sale of a limited number of $35 tickets for the June 7-8 event without having announced the lineup. As we reported in November, the Jubilee has abandoned Silver Lake – where, […]
It’s been a year and a half since quintet-turned-sextet NO released its free EP and defied the laws Googleable band names by becoming a favorite on the L.A. scene. So there were plenty of sing-alongs at the Echo Park band’s first big show of 2013 on Thursday when a sizable number of Eastsiders flocked to […]
Saturday night’s all right: ‣ Paisley Underground torchbearers the Three O’Clock, who have reunited to play Coachella, do a “Localchella” gig at the Glass house in Pomona, with Tijuana Panthers supporting. ‣ Electro alchemist Shlohmo headlines the Fonda Theatre behind his new “laid Out” EP – R&B singer Jeremih will be his special guest, and […]
Far be it from us to nitpick anybody’s release strategy, but in teasing their forthcoming full-length debut, L.A. quartet Hands leaked two songs before finally unveiling the new version of “Brave Motion” this week. Make no mistake, “Brave Motion” is the single, folks – the best entrée into the deliriously polyrhythmic, densely textured and vocally […]
The urgency of the synth-wielding post-punk bands of the 1980s provides the undercurrent for “VIVA,” the first full-length from L.A. Girlfriend. The nom de tune of Loyola Marymount product Sydney-Allyson Banta, L.A. Girlfriend can be playful and alluring but, as her flirtations with the would-be suitors in the Dustin Muenchow-directed video for “Gentlemen” suggest, there’s […]
Will Courtney makes time stop. Or, at least, the bear-huggable singer-songwriter slows the world down to a manageable pace. Courtney, known as Brother Will to the many friends he has made in the many places he has lived (he’s received mail in Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles and now Santa Fe, N.M.), crafts folk music that’s […]
L.A. experimental pop band Body Parts can be strange and beautiful, and beautifully strange; it’s hard to deny the entrancing yet odd things they do both sonically and visually. And what have they done to accompany the marvelous single “Rest While You Sleep?” They went to Death Valley and Venice Beach to practice tai-chi. The […]