Here’s your Tuesday show menu: ‣ Huge night at the Bootleg – Singer-songwriter, author and Throwing Muses co-founder Kristin Hersh [pictured] does an early solo acoustic show in the theater portion of the venue. Later, Josh Haden and Spain headline the Bootleg Bar behind their new album “The Soul of Spain.” Mike Watt + the […]
Call it intuition, but I knew exactly what ESP was going to sound like as soon as I saw the L.A. trio’s photograph. Cinematic production. Featherweight vocals. Vaguely tribal beats. More synths than songs. It all adds up to opaque dreamscapes at the hands of keyboard-wielding brother-sister duo Aska and Seiya Matsumiya and drummer Bobby […]
Echo Park rose on Saturday. And rose. And rose. And rose. The first serious Echo Park Rising neighborhood festival (last year’s last-minute affair did not have nearly the scope or the musical range of this year’s) was by most accounts a huge success. More than 100 musical artists, almost all local, played, and big crowds […]
If there’s one band most indie-rock fans associate with dance, it’s the Faint. The electo-punk outfit, who made a successful splash with their 2001 debut “Danse Macabre,” will be re-issuing a re-mastered version of it Oct. 30 via Saddle Creek Records. The Omaha band will be celebrating this re-release in a big way to match […]
Incoming: FYF Fest, Herbie Hancock, Meg Myers, Old 97’s, Kristin Hersh, Divine Fits, Concrete Blonde, the Drowning Men, HEALTH, Desaparecidos, Niki & the Dove, Mad Planet, Poolside, Pacific Festival and more. Above: Liars’ new video for “Against the Rush.” They’re on the bill for this weekend’s FYF Fest. Our staff picks of the week: @KRBronson […]
It’s a mad, mad Monday: ‣ Meg Myers closes out her residency at the Bootleg Bar with a big supporting cast that includes the Peach Kings, Max & the Moon and Diamonds Under Fire. ‣ Wildcat! Wildcat!’s residency at the Echo closes up shop with set from DWNTWN and Magic Wands, along Frank+Derol. ‣ Francisco […]
Hung over from this big concert weekend? Join me at 7 p.m. on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) and let the L.A. Buzz Bands Show put the finishing touches on your Sunday. In this week’s hour-long installment of local music, I will have fresh tunes from Eyes Lips Eyes, Kate Earl, the Happy Hollows […]
Happy post-Echo Park Rising day: ‣ Part Time Punks hosts another great night of shoegaze with Oakland-based Whirr [check out their song “Junebouvier” below], San Francisco’s Permanent Collection and L.A.’s very own Tennis System at the Echo. ||| Stream: Whirr, “Junebouvier” ‣ And over at Bootleg Bar, it’s a solid lineup featuring The Blank Tapes […]
Festivals, free nights, club shows …. oh my: ‣ Echo Park Rising brings more than 100 bands to the venues, shops and galleries in that neighborhood, with Fool’s Gold, Youngblood Hawke, Voxhaul Broadcast, NO, Soft Swells and more playing. Free and all ages. See our page with map and set times. and more [see post] […]
Cinematographer Colin Rich’s “Nightfall” – conjoined with the M83 song “Echoes of Mine” – is so spectacular I’m not even going to spend a lot of words on it. You should go here and read what Rich has to say about it. And watch in full screen. ||| Live: M83 performs Sept. 1 not far […]