Tenlons Fort, the musical stronghold of itinerant songwriter/filmmaker Jack Gibson, swings back through Los Angeles for a few shows next month – including a return visit to Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe, where the band turned in a memorable performance last July. Joining Tenlons will be one of the L.A. […]
The bigger, better Silver Lake Jubilee figures to make this a memorable Memorial Day weekend, and to get warmed up for the neighborhood festival, I’ll have a special edition of the Buzz Bands LA show today on Moheak Radio. The Jubilee Special will feature two hours of music from 30-plus artists on the bill Saturday […]
It’s good bet that most young music fans don’t know Redd Kross from the Red Cross from Christopher Cross (Hint: One had a hit your parents held hands to called “Sailing,” and this is not about him.) It’s Redd Kross that resurfaced this week with the news that the band, conceived in the late ’70s […]
Family of the Year still sounds happy. No big news there; with last year’s “St. Croix” EP, the Silver Lake quintet solidified its place in the brigade of local bands trading in exuberant California pop. The bulletin is that FOTY, now signed to Nettwerk, has completed its debut album, “Loma Vista,” which will be released […]
Australia’s brother-sister duo Angus and Julia Stone have crossed all oceans after several EPs and three albums together, but every once in a while they take time apart. Angus released a solo album in 2009, and Julia released “The Memory Machine” in 2010. This time, Julia’s record “By the Horns” (out May 29 on Nettwerk) […]
Everything that could go wrong Wednesday night at Robert Francis’ record-release show did. And in a strange way, it made everything go right. For the first chunk of the show at the Troubadour – celebrating this week’s release of the singer-songwriter’s third album, “Strangers in the First Place” – the unconscionably chatty crowd who all […]
Jordan Richardson made a name for himself in L.A. with his rhythms – the native Texan is the drummer for Ben Harper, and before that he manned the kit for local indie-rockers Oliver Future. (He was last spotted on this website participating in the stoner-rock project Epic Ruins.) Between tours of duty with Harper, though, […]
Thursday’s things: ‣ Chuck Ragan and Hot Water Music are back with their first album since 2004. “Exister” came out last week to a warm embrace from longtime fans. The quartet celebrates its release with a sold-out show tonight at the Satellite. ‣ U.K. rock ’n’ soul trio Little Barrie – fronted by Primal Scream/Paul […]
[A few tunes from L.A. artists who have been hard at work…] FIDLAR, “Got No Money” – Zac Carper and gang, whose acronym stands for F–k It Dog, Life’s a Risk, return with yet another single from their “Don’t Try” EP (out now on Mom + Pop). “Got No Money” has the odd juxtaposition of […]
