Incoming: Daley, Brian Whelan, Run River North, Matisyahu, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Best Coast, Vance Joy, Empress Of, Fetty Wap, Luke Top, Lower Dens, Galactic, Johnny Marr, Mutemath, Lucinda Williams, Waxahatchee and more.
Songs from Sego, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Adult Books, T.O.L.D., Blondfire, She Wants Revenge, Dunes and more on our week-in-review playlist.
Dreamy, but in black and white: Blondfire’s video for the title track to the forthcoming EP “True Confessions” reveals the true intentions of their new sonic direction.
Also: And So I Watch You From Afar, John Fogerty, Kid Cadaver, Kim & the Created, Boroughs, Their Wedding, Sad Robot, the Silver Lake Chorus
Highlights include Jamie xx, Franz Ferdinand + Sparks, My Morning Jacket, Hozier, Wolf Alice, Patrick Watson, Albert Hammond Jr., Neil Young, Kurt Vile, Superhumanoids, Alt-J, Twenty One Pilots, Other Lives, Florence + the Machine, the War on Drugs, Father John Misty, Deafheaven, Deerhunter and Of Monsters & Men.
Singer Erica Driscoll says the new single is “inspired by the crazy Manchester drug scene aftermath,” and indeed there’s something comfortably Britpop about it.
Super Saturday selections: ‣ Burger Records kicks off the first of its two-day festival Burgerama III at the Observatory with band such as the Growlers, the Black Lips, Bleached, Tijuana Panthers, Shannon & the Clams, Hunx & His Punx, NOBUNNY, Audacity, Cherry Glazerr, Lovely Bad Things, Aquadolls, Colleen Green, Coathangers, Tashaki Miyaki, Boogarins and plenty more. […]
Here’s your Wednesday show lineup: ‣ Louisiana-bred indie-rockers Royal Teeth visit the Bootleg Bar – their album “Glow” came out last year on Dangerbird – with Blondfire and Chappo opening. (Blondfire’s debut full-length “Young Heart” came out this week.) ‣ Brooklyn indie-poppers St. Lucia headline the El Rey Theatre, supported by Conway. Above is Conway’s […]
In between other musical activities, siblings Erica and Bruce Driscoll – dba Blondfire – have been working on a full-length to follow up their “Where the Kids Are” EP, which introduced the band’s catchy indie-pop with singles such as the title track and “Walking With Giants.” The duo co-wrote “Liar Liar” on Avicii’s new album […]
Back in November of 2011, the Driscoll siblings, Bruce and Erica – doing business as Blondfire – unveiled a candy-coated video for what was then their seemingly surefire hit-in-waiting “Where the Kids Are.” Since then, the band signed with Warner, tightened the song a little bit, landed it in a TV commercial for Honda and […]
