Going down a bold path similar to the sonically eclectic Fool’s Gold, Salt Petal seasons the exuberant indie-rock on its forthcoming EP with all manner of global influences. The L.A. quartet, whose members include Autumn Harrison (vocals/accordion), Rodrigo Gonzalez (guitar), Hiroo Nakano (drums) and Dayna Richards (trumpet), fuses Argentinian folk, Brazilian tropicalia, Cumbia and up-tempo […]
“What’s a man to do/When a man can’t be true?” Samuel T. Herring croons on the new Future Islands single. Always theatrical but never cliché, the Baltimore post-punk dance trio teases us with the soulful “Tomorrow.” Although there is no word on a full-length follow-up to their highly regarded album, “On the Water,” the dichotomy […]
Dinosaur Jr. plays with the concept of censorship in their music video for “Watch the Corners,” a track off of their upcoming album “I Bet on Sky” (due out Sept. 17 via Jagjaguwar). Directed by the Director Brothers, we see a young innocent girl fall for a pixel-faced skateboarding rocker boy and her over-protective father […]
In April, we introduced Field Report – the nom de tune of Chris Porterfield, the Wisconsin songwriter who once upon a Midwestern moon played with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the men from Megafaun in a band called DeYarmond Edison. Past associations might have cracked a few doors, but Porterfield’s songs have flung them wide […]
Echo Park Rising goes off Saturday at multiple venues in the neighborhood, and today’s Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio is devoted to 31 of the more than 100 artists and DJs performing at the festival. Yes, I had to leave a lot of good music out when preparing today’s program, but I hope […]
A benefit show Monday night at the Viper Room will celebrate the life of MC Exposition – aka “Expo” – the voice at the front of SoCal hip-hop outfit Audible Mainframe. MC Exposition [pictured], a Boston native born Victor Pontes-Macedo, died in April of stomach cancer. He was 31. Appearing at Monday night’s show, which […]
Your fun-filled Friday show picks: ‣ Some sonic explorers from the L.A. beat scene convene at the Echoplex, where a Friends of Friends showcase brings in Shlohmo (aka producer Henry Laufer) to head up a hometown show that features Salva, LOL Boys and Groundislava (new album “Feel Me” out next week). That’s the video for […]
Anybody who’s heard the cringeworthy cover of “Rhiannon” by Best Coast on the otherwise-OK Fleetwood Mac tribute album might appreciate what synth-pop alchemist Baron Von Luxxury has done with the song. No matter what you think about electro artists getting their bytes on classic tunes, at least Von Luxxury (the producer/songwriter born Blake Robin) has […]
Download this map (larger size) Here are set times for Echo Park Rising, the free festival going off at multiple venues on Saturday. The bill is a monstrous cross-section of the L.A. scene, with shows indoors, outdoors and at retail spaces and galleries. All times subject to change, as they say. Buzz Bands LA will […]
There’s something in the let-it-rip methods of L.A.-based Hello Echo that will appeal to fans of the edgy alternative rockers of the 1990s as well as exuberant nu-folkies of today. Singer-guitarist Sean Alyward, who once toiled for the mid-aughts buzz band Apollo Sunshine, has found a happy place between garage-rock, surf-pop and Americana; the band’s […]
