Did all the festivities from this massive weekend of music inspire you to hear some more local tunes? Join us at midnight tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM) for the L.A. Buzz Bands show, featuring an hour of tunes from SoCal artists and your DJ sipping on (very early) morning coffee. Tonight’s show features new music […]
[A weekend special: Here are three local bands who have gotten the remix treatment.] Saint Motel – “Puzzle Pieces (Junk Remix)” – Indie rock outfit Saint Motel gets a danceable but darker remix from Junk. Heavier beats warp the vocals and rhythm while also touching on the dark subject matter hidden in between those peppy […]
Not a simple Sunday: ‣ The Hollywood Bowl and its indie rocking summer series comes to an end with TV on the Radio headlining. The night’s chock-full lineup of artists also includes Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns. ‣ Folk singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow plays a second night at the Bootleg. Grab his […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ The U.K. quartet Ladytron, its fifth and finest album “Gravity the Seducer” just released, headlines the Wiltern, with Geographer and and Sonoio opening. ‣Canadian duo Junior Boys, getting a lot of acclaim for their new album “It’s All True,” play the El Rey Theatre. Fellow Canadians Young Galaxy open. ‣ To guys […]
Warm up for a big weekend by joining me on Moheak Radio for this week’s edition of the Buzz Bands LA show. I’ll have a mix of SoCal-bred music and stuff from other artists who are visiting L.A. soon, or who have just been on my mind. When I catch my breath, I’ll have the […]
It’s a monster weekend ahead – and not just for Hanni El Khatib, who does the Abbot-Kinney Festival en route to his album release show for “Will the Guns Come Out” (Monday night at the Echo). On Saturday, there’s free music at the Frogtown Art Walk, as well as a beer-sponsored event called “Walk the […]
Primer: “Baby Hawk (Part I of III)” Everything about Rademacher’s ambitious trilogy “Baby Hawk” seems to spell gloom. The sometimes-Fresno- and sometimes-Silver Lake-based indie rockers are taking on the trials and tribulations of being indie rockers in a three-album series (revolving around the mythical band Baby Hawk). Topics on the table: artistry, careerism, “success,” integrity, […]
George Lewis Jr., who releases music under the moniker Twin Shadow, has poked his well-coiffed head into new wave, electro-pop and R&B, and has come out groomed to be a pop star. His debut “Forget,” a hybrid of all those genres topped with yearning Morrissey vocals, made a memorable splash in 2010, and he’s well […]
Peter Hook got by with a little help from his friends last week when he brought his band Peter Hook & the Light through Los Angeles to perform two seminal albums by his first band, Joy Division. On Sept. 14 the Music Box, Hook and his band ripped through 1980’s “Closer,” with Perry Farrell and […]
No label does as much to keep the C86/Creation Records/post-punk flame burning as Bay Area-based Slumberland Records, and those who like to give their Joy Division and Jesus and Mary Chain records a rest every once in a while hope the light never goes out. San Francisco post-punk trio Weekend ably carries the torch, the […]
