Shut out of Coachella? Don’t want to deal with the desert? So in love with your favorite artist that you want to tack on another show besides the festival? Goldenvoice has lined up a bunch of luminaries playing the festival (April 12-14 and 19-21 in Indio) to perform at other southern California venues. The dizzying […]
Singer-guitarist Marlon Rabenreither’s work in the Sister Ruby Band is the stuff that outlasts trends, psychedelic Americana that’s rich in texture and songcraft. So it’s no surprise that, stripped-down, Rabenreither’s songs seem more than the sum of their parts. Under the name Gold Star, the former art-schooler is releasing a five-song EP of lightly orchestrated […]
Ready for a huge (and distinctly summer-like) weekend? Let me help. Tune into Moheak Radio at 11 a.m. for this week’s edition of the Buzz Bands LA Show. I’ll have new music from Hanni El Khatib, Flaamingos, Conway, Smoke Season, Tyler Lyle, Gold Star and Well Hung Heart, as well as a March residency preview […]
The ghost of Patsy Cline [Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of her tragic death, by the way] is either smiling or rolling her eyes at this one, we can’t figure which. This version of the Willie Nelson-penned “Crazy,” which Cline made a hit, comes courtesy of new arrived Sami, the nom de tune of Samantha […]
Your fantastic 1st of March: ‣ Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, you and Matt Damon are on the list: Morrissey and Patti Smith hold forth at Staples Center, winding up a week of anticipation and public relations adventures. ‣ Surfer Blood previews music off its forthcoming album “Pythons” (coming out this summer) at the Echo, with Grand […]
Matthew Mondanile of New Jersey’s psych surf-rock band Real Estate has been plugging away at his side project Ducktails since 2009, and he has come a long way from the lo-fi bedroom pop like “Wishes.” Now preparing for the release of Ducktails’ fourth full-length release and the first to be released on Domino, Mondanile is […]
No sooner had we swooned over Hanni El Khatib’s new single “Family” than the video for the song was released. The work of photographer/videographer Nick Walker, who has extensively documented El Khatib’s young career (as well as the Railroad Revival Tour), the video is a conceptually bonkers romp that Walker files under “Wild Asian Motorcycle […]
Unlike many of their brethren treading in heavy psychedelia, the Black Angels have found a way, over four albums, to not repeat themselves. Their forthcoming full-length “Indigo Meadow” (due April 2) is their best yet, turning their sometimes-bleak, mostly narcotized sheaths of Sabbathry toward the dark and light of a good ol’ fractious boy/girl relationship. […]
We like to make mixes ourselves, but sometimes it’s best to leave it to the professionals, and this taste of the 2013 Coachella Music & Arts Festival was good too not to share. DJ Tim Martell, an instructor at the Scratch DJ Academy, has assembled a mixtape of 52 artists playing this year in Indio […]
February goes out like a lion on this Thursday: ‣ Australian electronic dance-rockers Gold Fields [pictured] – impressive last fall when they visited for Culture Collide and with their new album “Black Sun” out this week – headline the Troubadour, supported by A Silent Film and Royal Teeth. ‣ The albums of Matt Pond – […]