Active Child’s pastoral song “Hanging On” gets a moving treatment in the new video directed by T.S. Pfeffer and Robert McHugh (who’ve also done videos for Princeton and Kisses), who follow two fishermen in their efforts to land the big one. The second single from singer-songwriter Pat Grossi’s lauded debut “You Are All I See,” […]
Sunday’s fun: ‣ Hip-pop dude Theophilus London headlines the El Rey Theatre, with K. Flay opening. At the start of his headlining tour, London released a new song, available for free. ||| Download: “Last Night (LVRS ANTHEM)” ‣ The Bernie Worrell Orchestra holds forth at the Bootleg Theater, and among the announced guests are Mike […]
Nostalgia never gets old, despite its definition, and Portland trio Blouse have a steady hold on romanticizing the act of reminiscing with their sultry ’80s-leaning sound. Although they may fall in to the chillwave genre, sweeping song arches in tandem with Charlie Hilton’s melancholic vocals not only save them but redirect them toward dream-pop, thus […]
[The music is coming so furiously already in 2012 … Here are some new tracks available from artists we’ve covered in recent months:] Coco Morier, “Ambulance” – New, dreamier track from the newest project of songwriter-producer Nicole Morier, who’s co-authored songs for the likes of Britney Spears, Tom Jones, Junkie XL and Wynter Gordon and […]
On Thursday, I relayed the story of how Nick Logie, Ashleigh Allard and Adam Ashe drove 22 hours from L.A. to Oklahoma City to knock on Wayne Coyne’s door and give him their HOTT MT album as a birthday present. The stunt turned into a 4 1/2-day stay at Coyne’s compound, during which the young […]
There’s something funny about Matthew McConaughey singing the lyrics to Butch Walker & the Black Widows‘ “Synthesizers.” Perhaps it’s because the lip-synching involves his reprisal of the “Dazed and Confused” character David Wooderson, who has, indeed, stayed the same age. Still wearing those ’70s duds and burning one down, he’s got the young girls following […]
For your Saturday, a movie (including the Movies) and plenty of good shows: ‣ “Pass the Music,” a music documentary filmed between 2008 and ’10 focusing on the Silver Lake/Echo Park indie scene, screens for the first time publicly tonight at the Bootleg Theater. Following the 8 p.m. screening, there will be live music from […]
There was a certain emotional veracity exuded by songstresses from the ’90s that has been diluted in (most) artists of the generations that followed. The suffocating effects of postmodernism? The bitch-slap immediacy of the Internet age? Maybe one of our learned essayists can do a think piece. Or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, something about […]
Where on earth did this week go? It’s Friday already – time for your weekly dose of local tunes on the Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio. Join me at 11 a.m. Pacific time for a passel of new music. I’ll be the guy on the webcam, trying to make sense of the fact […]
Sarah McIntosh could easily be lumped in with female-fronted electro-pop bands such as La Roux and Ladyhawke, but the sophisticated gothic sheen on pop melodies she offers with her band the Good Natured sets her apart. Slinking between Scandinavian-like bubblegum choruses to sensually dark undertones that echo Ladytron, McIntosh (along with her brother Hamish and […]