The Whigs, “In the Dark” (ATO,) – “There’s a hundred million people in my mind,” singer-guitarist Parker Gispert admits in the leadoff track to the Athens, Ga., trio’s third album (out next week). “Which is me, and which is not?” Whoever they are, on this album they’re not all imploring Gispert, drummer Julian Dorio and […]
The title track to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s forthcoming album “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo” is a psychedelic stomp that saunters, all shakers and handclaps, into mystical territory and never quite drops the fuzzbomb you half-expect. The trio, now with Leah Shapiro drumming behind Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been, will release the new album (which […]
When Laura Ann Masura’s longtime friend Josiah Mazzaschi heard she had been injured in a motorcycle accident, he didn’t sit on his hands. He got on the phone. Mazzaschi, the frontman of local indie-rock band Light FM, has organized a benefit concert, Jam for Laura Ann, on Sunday at the Echoplex to help Masura, a […]
Welcome news dept.: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is working in Hollywood on a new album to be released in early 2010. In the meantime, the L.A.-based trio have announced it will release “Live,” a two-DVD, one-CD package on Nov. 11. The release, on the band’s own imprint through a partnership with Vagrant, features more than […]
[Some 200-plus shows later, here are my favorite sets of 2008, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1 . You have a favorite? Tell me about it in the comments …] 10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jan. 25, Safari Sam’s: Probably my fondest memory of Safari Sam’s, the east Hollywood club whose lowlights exceeded […]
