Sometimes bands come together in strange and mysterious ways, but Deap Vally – yess, thatz how they spel it – might be the first collaboration to start over crochet hooks. Singer-guitarist Lindsey Troy met drummer Julie Edwards when Troy took a needlework class at Edwards’ shop the Little Knittery in Atwater Village. Edwards, last spotted […]
This from R.E.M.’s website today: “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by […]
L.A. noiseniks No Age aren’t exactly the stars of their own video in Todd Cole’s short film highlighting “Inflorescence.” Cole, whose other work includes Rodarte-branded “The Curve of Forgotten Things” with Elle Fanning (and, notably, the video for Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms”), was matched up with No Age via the Levi’s Film Workshop (so none […]
Your midweek options: ‣ Athens’ purveyors of Southern Gothic twang Futurebirds (pictured) headline the Satellite on a buzzy night that also features Van Pierszalowski’s post-Port O’Brien project Waters and Portland chamber-pop sextet Loch Lomond. ‣ The Quebec in Hollywood festivities at the El Rey Theatre offer four bands seemingly only connected by geography – Patrick […]
L.A. rocker Andy Clockwise’s new video for the insistent jammer “Love and War” – off his April release “The Socialite” – engages in some nifty sleight-of-hand and typical (for Clockwise, anyway) theatrics. Because, as he reminds in the chorus, “All is fair in love and war.” In the Clockwise-directed clip, filmed by Robert Murphy, Jade […]
So the Barr Brothers’ story goes that guitarist Brad Barr heard a neighbor, Sarah Page, practicing her harp, learned the melody, knocked on her door and played it for her. Which makes for a nice warm-and-fuzzy – not unlike the Montreal quartet’s self-titled debut album (out next week on Secret City Records). It’s bluesy, tool-shed […]
Alan Palomo’s project Neon Indian initially surfaced after he had written a batch of songs that didn’t quite fit with his band Vega, but his entrance into the chillwave scene along with others such as Toro Y Moi and Washed Out did not go unnoticed with hazy anthems such as “Deadbeat Summer” off his appropriately […]
As frontman of the cheekily named but underrated O.C. quartet Venus Infers, Davis Fetter was a swaggering mod rocker whose Strokes-meets-Britpop music could have come from Manchester as well as much as Huntington Beach. With his foursome on hiatus, Fetter has done more than just adopt a stellar bouffant. Fetter’s first two singles ooze the […]
Army Navy’s new video for “Ode to Janice Melt” takes “talk to the hand” to a whole ‘nother level. It’s directed by Jeremy Konner (“Drunk History”) and stars Jason Ritter (“The Event”), along with Gudrun Flaherty and a cameo by “Big Bang Theory’s” Simon Helber. The song comes from their excellent sophomore album “The Last […]
Touts for your Tuesday: ‣ Bon Iver and Other Lives do a second night in L.A., this show at the Gibson Amphitheatre. ‣ Low visits the El Rey Theatre behind its April release “C’mon,” with New Zealand’s Bachelorette opening. ‣ Correatown celebrates today’s release of its new album “Pleiades” with a show at the Bootleg […]
