Happy 2/1/12: ‣ Buzz Bands LA presents a night of free music at Harvard & Stone featuring 7Horse and Stephen Brower & the Silent Majority, along with DJ Mara Schwartz, There’s no cover charge. ‣ British electro-funk duo Fujiya & Miyagi wind up a big U.S. tour behind their latest album “Ventriloquizzing” with a show […]
Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance had been friends since childhood, but it’s their recent musical relationship as Jamestown Revival that has gotten national attention. Setting aside their solo careers to join together as a two-man show producing what they call “indie rock with a southern slant,” the Austin-bred duo’s music also embodies plenty of other […]
Compared to most electro-pop today, Imperial Teen’s fifth album (and first since 2007) “Feel the Sound” feels restrained. And thank goodness. The veteran quartet of Jone Stebbins, Roddy Bottum, Lynn Perko Truell and Will Schwartz have fashioned 11 giddy nuggets out of playful melodies, smart phrasing and twining vocals. The album is out today on […]
Coco Rosie’s show Feb. 11 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex has been postponed until June 9 because of Sierra “Rosie” Casady is still recovering from vocal problems. A statement from the venue said Casady “underwent routine surgery” but “will need additional time for the full healing process to complete.” Tickets for French theatrical pop […]
Musicians may just want to skip this anecdote and go straight the download. In 2007, four dudes out of O.C./Long Beach calling themselves CoCo B’s unleashed an album of brash, hooky guitar-bass-drums indie-rock that earned deserving comparisons to the Replacements, Guided by Voices and Archers of Loaf. I was, and remain, crazy for “I Live […]
On last year’s “Plains of Id” EP, the Ross Sea Party embraced the modern folk-rock aesthetic of songs built on big melodies, agitated rhythms and gang harmonies. As the L.A. quintet of singer-guitarist Brady Erickson, guitarist Mark Tillman, multi-instrumentalist Will VanderWyden, drummer Michael Baumer and keyboardist/glockenspiel player Jacquelyn Thropay embark on their next release, they’re […]
Despite the abundance of color in comparison to the clip for her lead single, “How Come You Never Go There,” the beautifully cinematic music video for Feist‘s new single “The Bad In Each Other” evokes much more sorrow. If nothing else, the opening scene where a man takes his dog out of the car to […]
‣ Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin visits the Troubadour behind her recently released album “Little Spark,” made with producer Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe) and arrangements by Richard Swift. The video for the song “Hurry Hurry” was directed by Scarlett Johansson. The Watson Twins open tonight’s show. ‣ Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. swings back […]
Abandoned Pools, the solo venture of songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Tommy Walter, have signed to Seattle-based Tooth & Nail Records. The label will release the L.A. native’s third album “Sublime Currency” later this year. Walter, an original member of the Eels, released two albums in first half of last decade on two different labels – 2001’s “Humanistic” helped Abandoned […]
Time off from being one-half of the Fiery Furnaces (with the other half being her brother Matthew) has been treating Eleanor Friedberger quite well. She’s on tour with a backing band featuring Matt Asti (MGMT), Ahmed Gallab (Yeasayer, Caribou) and John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet, Turbo Fruits), and she’ll also personally be joining Carrie […]