First Monday of a new month, and you know what that means: new residencies. But first: ‣ Youngblood Hawke, Lady Danville, Useless Keys and Yellow Red Sparks team up for a Pablove Foundation benefit at the Satellite, whose February residents, Milo Greene, don’t get started until next Monday. Above is the video for Youngblood Hawke’s […]
[Yes, I scrambled to adjust tonight’s playlist to match the outcome of the game …] To honor the New York Giants victory in today’s Super Bowl, I’m going to kick off today’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) with a song from a NYC duo now doing music in these […]
Get More: OK Go, Needing/Getting, Music, More Music Videos OK Go takes to the road – OK, the off-road – for their latest video shenanigans. The quartet, known for wildly imaginative and and intricately choreographed videos involving treadmills, dogs, Rube Goldberg machines and colorful jumpsuits, becomes an instrument of Chevrolet in director Brian Perkins’ video […]
Your Superbowl Sunday spread: ‣ Vas Dafrans, Harriet, Rimpau and the Peach Kings play the Bootleg as part of a mini festival that will benefit the 20-year-old skateboarder/snowboarder Xander Mozejewski, who was recently in a motorcycle accident. The acoustic room will also feature the Weekend Pilots, Red Robot w/ Strings, Sophia Louise and Deux Sons. […]
As homages go, well … this is homage. Thirty-five years ago today, Fleetwood Mac released an album called “Rumours,” which turned out pretty well for them. To mark the anniversary, NYC-based duo Mirabelle – the project of singer-songwriter Michelle Hotaling and producer Scott Slater – today released “Crystal Revisions,” a syrupy seven-track paean to the […]
A super Saturday to warm up for your Super Sunday: ‣ Has it been almost two years since Haim rocked a Buzz Bands LA show at the Echo? Time flies. Between other musical endeavors, the young L.A. quartet of sisters Danielle, Alana and Este Haim and Tim Carr has been working on new music. Haim […]
It was packed from wall to wall for Wally De Backer on Thursday night at the El Rey Theatre. Known better by his stage name, Gotye provided an hour-and-a-half high for those lucky enough to get their hands on tickets to the sold-out show. Initially only a megastar on his home turf, the Australian multi-instrumentalist […]
Join me at 11 a.m. today on Moheak Radio for two hours of mostly new local music. In the past week or so, the likes of Delta Spirit, Superhumanoids, Robert Francis, Whispertown, Lady Danville and the Ross Sea Party have unveiled new songs. We’ll visit them, and toss in a blast from the past from […]
When the Silver Lake Jubilee returns in May for a third year, the nascent neighborhood festival will come with a higher admission price and a new location. The May 26-27 street party moves one block from its previous Myra Street location to Santa Monica Boulevard, just below Sunset Junction. And general admission – $5 the […]
Happy Friday, everybody: ‣ Long Island quintet Twin Sister, on their first headlining tour, visits the Echo behind their 2011 debut “In Heaven.” Ava Luna and Talkdemonic support. That’s Twin Sister’s video for “Kimmi in a Rice Field,” above. ‣ This month’s installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum brings San Francisco’s the […]