Soulful Sunday. ‣Holy psychedelic soul, Batman! Van Hunt will bring his musical alchemy to the Troubadour stage tonight and I bet a life will be changed. This is #winning. ‣Empire of the Sun (Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore) are at Club Nokia and round out what’s been a good week of Aussie bands in Los […]
Happy Tuesday: ‣ Radical Face, the nom de tune of Florida’s Ben Cooper, plays the Bootleg Theater behind his rapturous new album “The Family Tree: The Roots.” He’ll be backed by the Easterly Singers Choir, and Walking Sleep will open. [See Radical Face’s “A Pound of Flesh” video.] ‣ The soulful Chris Pierce celebrates the […]
Chris Pierce is winking a little bit, calling his new album “I Can Hear You.” As a teenager, the singer-songwriter suffered from otosclerosis, an abnormal bone growth in the middle ear that resulted in his going deaf in one ear. Yet it did not prevent him from earning the Ella Fitzgerald scholarship for jazz studies […]
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs [pictured] celebrate the release of “Under the Covers Vol. 2” (out today on Shout! Factory) by appearing at the Grammy Museum as part of a series called “The Drop,” during which artists perform and discuss their work. The album from the power-pop ace and Bangles vocalist uses 1970s gems as […]
[Bluesman Jonny Lang will always seem like a teenager to me; hard to believe he’s turning 28 today. Although tht stillmakes him a whiz kid to me …] Nikolai Fraiture [pictured] of the Strokes – under the nom de tune Nickle Eye – released his debut “The Time of the Assassins” this week, and while […]
[Birthdays wishes go out to Robin Zander … now, if making through this weekend’s concert schedule were only a cheap trick:] Today: Chris Pierce [pictured] has been spreading his feel-good R&B around his native Los Angeles since he was a teenager, and the young soul man has amassed enough devotees that he has the headlining […]
