[Good morning … See the promo box in the first sidebar at right to win Ed Harcourt tickets for tonight …] Ed Harcourt, the Londoner who just released the gorgeous EP “Russian Roulette” [see last week’s post], plays an intimate show at downtown’s Bordello. … John Vanderslice [pictured], getting some of the best reviews of […]
[Happy 40th to Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd. Now keep the beat while I run through tonight’s exhausting list of shows:] Give the Church credit – most bands who are still going concerns at the end of their third decade are just playing greatest-hits sets. The Australian quartet, touring behind a new album, “Untitled #23,” […]
[Happy birthday to Lee Majors – the Six Million Dollar Man turns 70 today, and if you think there’s no musical connection you’ve obvously never heard his 1981 tune “The Unknown Stuntman.”] In an earlier version of this post, I had Edward Sharpe playing at the Regent Theater. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. that residency […]
It’s been too long since I posted a podcast, so this is Step 1 in catching up. This fourth edition of the Buzzsicle features songs from 17 L.A. artists whose names I heard in the aftermath of last month’s South by Southwest Music Festival. In my Austin wanderings, I mostly avoided L.A. bands, figuring I […]
[Birthday candles Sunday for both Ry Cooder and Sly Stone on what will be a very busy weekend …] Tonight: Van Nuys-based imprint Hopeless/Sub City Records has been doing good things for years with its charity outreach, and its eight annual Take Action Tour, with DoSomething.org as this year’s beneficiary (the group will get three […]
[Happy birthday to Yoko Ono, 76 years young. Not that she isn’t getting birthday greetings from all over …] Mystery Jets, the Syd Barrett-worshiping, 1980s-channeling quintet from London, are newly aligned with Rough Trade Records. Their “Twenty One” was No. 8 on NME’s top albums of 2008, though it was barely a blip on anybody’s […]
I’m not sure when L.A. electro-pop quartet Casxio is going to start getting the attention they deserve, but the video they just released for the song “Boiling Point” might help. It’s a stark short film with a cast of six, directed by Hilton Carter and made by his production team Fresh Kill. Casxio has consistently […]
[On Saturday we can send out birthday wishes to Pat Benatar. But we can start rockin’ tonight …] Tonight: Gram Rabbit [pictured: Jesika von Rabbit a year ago on New Year’s Eve] take a break from working on their fourth album — they’re again working with producer Ethan Allen — to headline the Troubadour. … […]
