Earlimart’s show on Friday night at the Satellite celebrating its new album “System Preferences” felt like a family reunion, even if some prominent siblings and cousins couldn’t make it. Four years have passed since the Aaron Espinoza/Ariana Murray creative alliance released “Hymn and Her.” In that time, they have gotten married (though not to each […]
CicLAvia, the quarterly community event that ushers pedestrians and bicyclists onto normally traffic-clogged thoroughfares, goes off Sunday on streets in and around downtown L.A. [See map here.] And for this event, four local bands will perform a free, all-ages matinee show at the CicLAvia hub in the Central Plaza in Chinatown. Rising synth-pop quartet Tapioca […]
You can also see the sun glistening off ocean waves in the opening guitar licks of “Slow Days Fast Company,” the new single from L.A. quartet Blonde Summer. It’s been almost two years since Chris Pope and mates released “Eleganza,” a crunchy testament to the fact that ’90s-inclined indie-rock can still sound urgent and fresh. […]
The 13th annual Eagle Rock Music Festival has it wired. The daylong neighborhood affair along Colorado Boulevard will feature 11 scions of the L.A. beat scene – the Low End Theory stage boasts performances by Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing and the Gaslamp Killer, among others – and enough of this city’s top indie music to […]
[Happy birthday to Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, who are in town tonight …] ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s monthly Second Tuesday songwriter night continues at Lot 1 Cafe with Brian Whelan (pictured), Stephen Sowan and Jason Diaz. ‣ Mogwai roars into the Mayan Theatre behind its seventh album, “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” [get […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Queens of the Stone Age/Sweethead guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen … Now for tonight’s goodies:] Top 3 midweek outings: ‣ It’s the album-release show for noisy L.A. duo Alpine Decline, who are joined by Polls and Blonde Summer at the Silverlake Lounge. ‣ One of our fair city’s finest purveyors […]
“Eleganza,” the first EP from new L.A. quartet Blonde Summer, is a radiant blast of indie-rock done in the ’90s way – with sharp vocals, insistent rhythms and churning guitars, all slathered in irresistible hooks. The five-song debut is the brainchild of singer-guitarist Chris Pope and guitarist Matt Reid, who sequestered themselves in Joshua Tree […]
