Plenty of Friday fun: ‣ Feedback-loving Bay Area post-punk trio Weekend hits the Echo behind their new “Red” EP on Slumberland Records, with Talk Normal and Tan Dollar supporting. ‣ Nashville quartet the Features, sharp and spirited when they visited L.A. in July, make a return visit to the Satellite. ‣ Bright Eyes plays a […]
Like most of the songs on their debut “Pickin’ Up the Pieces,” we adore Fitz & the Tantrums’ “Don’t Gotta Work It Out.” But the video for the song makes us long for the days of the band’s black-and-white performance clips. Did somebody shuffle the storyboards, or what? What’s with the briefcase? The feathers? The […]
[In the interests of keep you up to date, here are three recommended songs from artists we’ve previously posted about:] HoneyHoney, “Turn That Finger Around” (e-mail required) – “Billy Jack,” the second album of razor-sharp Americana from the duo of Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe, will be out Oct. 24 on Lost Highway. Their “Ten […]
The Nocturnes’ gorgeous hybrid of folk and dream-pop is the stuff of slow-motion dreams and translucent hallucinations. The L.A. quartet is the brainchild of Red Sparowes guitarist Emma Ruth Rundle, who along with RS bandmate Dave Clifford on drums, guitarist Julian Rifkin and multi-instrumentalist Paris Patt, fashions dirgey anthems out of echoing guitars and choral […]
The last time we talked with Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith, he made it clear that the band felt most at home on the road. Yet “Time Spent in Los Angeles,” which opens their latest record “Nothing Is Wrong,” could be read as a tender love letter to their home turf. No matter how much the […]
The heavy mystique that fills the air at Hollywood Forever Cemetery sharpens the senses, and an intimate show inside the Masonic Lodge only makes the place that much more memorable. For those who ventured out on Sunday night, folk songstress Laura Marling, a musician who has never been afraid to share her tales of love, […]
A.A. Bondy’s meditative third album “Believers” (on Fat Possum) edges away from the guitar-based folk on his breakout “When the Devil’s Loose” and seeks a place in the clouds, where the former Verbena frontman seems to gaze down at his dreams. In separate songs he confesses to be “far away from the world” and “looking […]
Thursday’s menu: ‣ Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club visit the Wiltern Theatre, with local quintet Grouplove opening. Above is Grouplove’s recent video for “Tongue Tied,” off its debut “Never Trust a Happy Song.” ‣ The Janks celebrate the release of their album “Hands of Time” with a show at the Bootleg Theater. American Tomahawk […]
Of all the chilling moments on the chilly evening of 9/11, one eight-minute stretch of the National’s set at the Hollywood Bowl rattled the spine. It came when the Cincinnati-bred, Brooklyn-based indie rockers played an obscure 2003 album track “Thirsty,” followed by 2007’s “Fake Empire.” ||| Photos by Nick Carranza, PlanetSpeck.com With a full moon […]
Coyol, a duo who embodies both the grit of the old Southwest and the new Los Angeles, have released their first self-titled EP, and to celebrate they’ve made a video for the tune that started it all. Although Céleigh Chapman and John Isaac Watters have carefully been unveiling new songs (each accompanied by intriguing artwork […]