Midway through “Janglin” on Friday night at the Greek Theatre, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros ground the song to a halt while frontman Alex Ebert went into the crowd to howl at the moon, which loomed like manna above the silhouetted pine trees that encircle the Greek Theatre. It was but one of many […]
The Neighbourhood have been one of the hottest new acts on the Internet since they arrived early this year as men of mystery with the single “Female Robbery.” The young Newbury Park-based quintet followed it with an even better single, “Sweater Weather,” and now today marks something of the band’s coming-out party – the release […]
The theme for this year’s First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum is “This Time It’s Personal,” and that concept could hardly have been better realized in music than by A.A. Bondy and Father John Misty. As he has in other recent stops in L.A. behind his latest album “Believers,” Bondy on Friday night […]
It’s the first Monday in May: ‣ Death Cab For Cutie [pictured], their latest album “Codes and Keys” a big success, will be joined by Youth Lagoon for a sold-out concert at Disney Hall – after which Youth Lagoon will beat a hasty retreat to the Echo to play a show there. ‣ Harriet [see […]
Big week – no, actually, big month – ahead for SoCal bands and new music releases. On tonight’s edition of the L.A. Buzz Bands show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org), I’ll preview some of them. Tonight’s fare includes new tunes from Silversun Pickups, the Neighbourhood, Lilac, Max and the Moon, Warships and Broken […]
Denizens of Echo Park, beware. Meg Myers has had enough of you. Her single “Tennessee” oozes with contempt for your self-congratulatory poses, so the L.A. songstress, a native of the Volunteer State, has taken it one step further. Paired up with her producer/co-writer Doctor Rosen Rosen and armed with Nerf weapons, Myers goes on a […]
Cage the Elephant did everything a good rock band should do on Wednesday night at the Mayan Theatre – the pride of Bowling Green, Ky., played their radio hits, and they played them hard. Matthew Shultz reasserted himself as one of the most explosive and athletic frontmen around, throwing his voluminous hair around as if […]
Fun for your Sunday: ‣ Fresh off a show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the Weeknd (that’s Abel Tesfaye, pictured at Coachella) plays a sold-out gig at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Sacramento rockers Middle Class Rut headline the Troubadour, supported by L.A.’s newest purveyors of Zep-styled blues, Beware of Darkness, who will celebrate the release of […]
May 5: ‣ Hard to imagine there is a more Angeleno way to observe today’s “holiday” than with L.A. icons Los Lobos. They headline Cinco de Mayo Festival at the Greek Theatre, joined by Neko Case, Alejandro Escovedo and Flaco Jimenez, with guests X and Mariachi El Bronx opening. Doors open at 3 p.m., with […]
The first three singles from the Distnce bely the name – they are slightly chilled (but not over-saturated) dream-pop, to be sure, but they exude a melodic warmth that often gets lost in the genre’s reverb. The man behind the project goes by the name James Lucas, whose real name is a Marc Jameson, a […]
