Sunday’s menu: ‣ Sweet Hearts, the charming duo comprised of Priscilla Ahn and Charlie Wadhams (and pictured above), headline the Bootleg tonight. Surf-pop husband-wife duo The Parlour Suite supports. ‣ Geronimo Getty, the country-fried project of Aaron Kyle (Le Switch), celebrates its EP release with a show at 1642 (1642 Temple). ‣ Singer-songwriter Rosie Thomas […]
The public art installation “Play Me, I’m Yours” – which featured 30 whimsically decorated pianos deposited in various high-traffic locales around Los Angeles – was celebrated Thursday night with a pop-up show at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. “Pianos Live” boasted a lineup of about a dozen artists performing songs in the courtyard space. Many […]
Songs on a sunny Saturday: ‣ Electro-pop meastro Robert DeLong brings the party to the Viper Room. ‣ Downtown L.A. hosts a massive free music event called Corners Festival featuring 99 poets, 26 Bands, 13 artists, 3 plays and 3 street corners. Bands like the Bixby Knolls, Queen Caveat, the Dead Ships and more play […]
No matter where you stand on Electric Guest’s Danger Mouse-stamped electro-soul – and we have some serious believability problems – the slick video for the catchy single “This Head I Hold” tests sensibilities. The collaboration of Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton, Electric Guest this week released its debut album “Mondo” via Downtown Records and Across the […]
Join me at 11 this morning for this week’s installment of the Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio – two hours of local music that’ll make Friday happy hour seem like it started early. This week I’ll have new music from Everest, Soft Pipes, Lauralaura, the Briggs, 2 Hearts and Chemicals, Queen Caveat and […]
[Further musical excursions and updates on bands we recently posted on:] The Mowgli’s, “I’ve Been Around” – Quicker than you can pop a couple of Xanax, the Los Angeles septet has seemingly set its sights on Grouplove’s reign as Happiest Band Around. Their debut single “San Francisco” [see our March post] earned radio play on […]
Top 40 radio influenced producer Rich Jacques as a child, and it can be heard in the songs he writes today. As frontman of L.A. band Right the Stars (whose name derived from a Wilco lyric) Jacques boldly writes big pop hooks for his quartet’s propulsive guitar-driven rock. But Jacques’ project didn’t always boast brawny […]
Friday’s fun: ‣ Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding visits the Fonda Theatre behind her new album “Radio Music Society.” Above is an image from the remarkable animated video for “Endangered Species” – the work of Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova. The video premiered on Earth Day and is available for download from the artist’s website in […]
There is a moment in fall when the blend of colors give off a gold tint. Of course, it doesn’t last long, because falling leaves are signs of transition in the weather. Alternative-rock and Americana songwriter Grant Olsen understands transition, and even records under the moniker Gold Leaves. It suits him well since themes of […]
In Canadian filmmaker Jesse Ewles, pop contortionists Of Montreal found someone with the mad visual skills to match their musical spirit. The video for “Spiteful Intervention,” off the band’s recent album “Paralytic Stalks,” is a painting in motion – a giant eye, Kevin Barnes’ face, blobs of color pulsing – all in arresting and rather […]