Cut Copy’s Dan Whitford felt compelled to exhort people to dance when the Australian quartet hit the Palladium on Oct. 12, but it wasn’t really necessary. The band wove cuts from this year’s album “Zonoscope” into a set heavy on selections from 2008’s dancier “In Ghost Colours,” and the crowd, sufficiently in a tizzy thanks […]
Kiev’s first outing, the EP “Ain’t No Scary Folks In On Around Here,” impressed with its jammy concoction of funky rhythms, electronics and atmospherics. Since then the Orange County quintet of singer-guitarist Robert Brinkerhoff, keyboardists Alex Wright and Andy Stavas (who also wields a sax), drummer Brandon Corn and bassist Derek Poulsen have cranked up […]
The Californian’s self-titled debut album is a bit like surfing on a moonless night – the riffs and melodies concocted by singer-guitarist John Graney tug like currents, pulling you … where? Under? Ashore? Into a game of beach blanket bingo with Ian Curtis? Maybe all three at times. Here, the slow-mo album closer “Girl in […]
Orange County-based Starving for Gravity has been cultivating its gritty, angsty alt-rock ever since Lucas Holter, Mark Allee, Ben Jindra, Aaryn Minich and Brad Kovar packed up the van in their native Minnesota and headed west. Since, they’ve made an EP with veteran record producer Michael Lloyd and, most recently, become one of five finalists […]
[Happy November. And happy birthday to Eulogies’ Peter Walker …] Tuesday’s touts: ‣ Shonen Knife have been fun for a long time, and on many continents. The Japanese pop-punk standouts are celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band, and they visit the Echoplex on the heels of their latest release “Osaka Ramones,” a tribute to […]
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, brought her striking art-pop to the Music Box on Oct. 18, holding a capacity crowd spellbound with material from her third album “Strange Mercy” and more. Check out the review on the OC Register’s Soundcheck blog. ||| Photos by Debi Del Grande
Think of this as a match made at a gloriously noisy station in heaven: Electric Flower pairs one of the most formidable shredders around, guitarist Imaad Wasif, with one of the most ferocious drummers, Josh Garza of Secret Machines. The story goes that they met while trapped in an elevator in London some years ago, […]
The trick-or-treaters haven’t even hit the doorstep and we’ve had enough of Halloween already. Or maybe we’re just grumpy because we missed the awesome KCRW Masquerade because of a weekend warrior-related injury. Anyway, here are three Day of the Dead-appropriate videos (and a download) for your sack of candy: Indie stalwarts Superchunk have long had […]
As guitarist and songwriter for the U.K. quartet the Mighty Lemon Drops (1985-92), David Newton fashioned buoyant melodies out of spry chord progressions and jangling riffs for a band largely remembered for being part of the C86 movement. He married an American girl and settled in southern California in 1995, setting aside songwriting and performing […]
Grammy-winning songstress Adele has canceled the rest of her 2011 tour dates because she is undergoing throat surgery. “I’m heartbroken and worried to tell you that yet again I’m experiencing problems with my voice,” the singer said on her blog.
