Brass Tax is the musical (ad)venture of Jada Wagensomer, who also plays in Dante Vs Zombies and Jail Weddings. For her song “Man With the Tooth,” she enlisted filmmaker Burke Roberts to make a video – and it’s pointed and startling and a little bit deranged. Apparently it was too risqué for MTV. Buddyhead premiered […]
Singer-songwriter Morgan Nagler got her project Whispertown off the ground oh-so-many years ago by rubbing elbows with a couple of other former child actors, Blake Sennett and Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley. And Friday night – on the occasion of her birthday as well as the release of Whispertown’s new EP “Parallel” – the bonds […]
The first single from Silversun Pickups’ forthcoming third album “Neck of the Woods” (due May 8 on Dangerbird) sounds like a band intent on not repeating itself. Now almost a decade into their career, the foursome were feedback-happy noiseniks in the years leading up to 2006’s “Carnavas” who then distended that sound to stadium proportions […]
Soaking it up on the final Monday in March: ‣ Twenty-two-year-old electro whiz Nicolas Jaar plays his first official L.A. show at the Echoplex behind his 2011 album “Space Is Only Noise.” ‣ The Henry Clay People rock the Viper Room, supported by TS & the Past Haunts and the Mowgli’s. ‣ NO’s residency at […]
[Our look at the week ahead, starting with Nicolas Jaar, playing Monday, and his video for “Mi Mujer”:] Incoming: Nicolas Jaar, NO, Voxhaul Broadcast, the Henry Clay People, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Harriet, White Arrows, White Rabbits, Matthew Dear, Races, Kathleen Edwards, the Wedding Present and more. Our staff picks of the week: […]
Back from the South by Southwest Music Festival, blisters healed and email folders bulging with new music, I’ll convene this week’s edition of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show at 7 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). What’s in store? How about new music from Silversun Pickups? Or another new track from the mystery […]
I guess the lesson here is to vet your band name through as many filters as possible. The Morning Benders – the pop quartet started in Berkeley five-plus years ago by SoCal native Christopher Chu – have changed their name to POP ETC. “We simply cannot go on using a name that is demeaning to […]
The music of Tanlines – the pairing of singer-keyboardist Eric Emm and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Cohen – finds a lightsome spot in the nooks and crannies of ’80s revivalism, or at least one illuminated by a disco ball. Subtle polyrhythms, bouncy synths, swooping melodies – their album “Mixed Emotions” (out last week via True Panther) is enough to […]
On this Sunday, some of the good stuff starts early: ‣ Philadelphia trio Good Old War visits the Avalon Hollywood behind its new album “Come Back As Rain,” with L.A.’s own the Belle Brigade and Family of the Year opening. ‣ Big doings at the Bootleg Theater, where KXLU’s LA Psych Fest brings the Entrance […]
Great Saturday ahead: ‣ Here’s a show that comes with all the fixings – the Burger Records mini-festival Burgerama goes off at the Observatory in Santa Ana, featuring OFF! (pictured at Coachella last year), Wavves, Ty Segall, the Strange Boys, FIDLAR, White Fence, King Tuff, the Lovely Bad Things, Dirt Dress, Audacity, Pangea, Feeding People, Tomorrow’s […]
