What a Wednesday – here’s what you have to choose from: ‣ We had frankly lost track of Scottish pop quartet The View, whose 2006 single “Waste Little DJs” wormed its way into our ears as the band was poised to make a splash in the U.S. and play Coachella. Alas, singer Kyle Falconer was […]
There were albums I loved, albums I liked, albums I appreciated and albums I avoided in 2012. Because of my regional focus, I spent an inordinate amount of time with music from Los Angeles artists. And strangely for me, a lot of the hyped bands failed to resonate; stuck in traffic, I’d rather have played […]
By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It’s been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it’s because I’ve whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year. Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts […]
Chilly weather didn’t stop show-goers from heading out on Monday night. And if there were any who second guessed their choice to leave their cozy homes, the double bill of Wild Belle and Deep Sea Diver made sure to turn up the heat at the sold-out show at the Echo. ||| Photos by Kelsey Heng […]
Everything digested from last week? Here’s your Monday madness: ‣ No Doubt is back for a second night in their big run at the Gibson Amphitheatre, this time supported by Grouplove and IO Echo. ‣ Chicago’s Wild Belle [our recent missive] visits the Echo, but just as important for us is the SoCal appearance by […]
Deep Sea Diver’s debut “History Speaks” is one of those albums that reveals itself in layers – peel back one and another appears, possibly more mysterious and probably even more alluring. At the current rate of return spins, it’ll be a contender for our album of the year, if it wasn’t immediately. To background [in case you […]
Jessica Dobson has, in today’s parlance, mad skills. She was signed to Atlantic Records at age 19, back in the middle part of last decade, and in typical major-label fashion they had no idea what to do with an artist whose work could not be plugged neatly into some format. The Orange County native persevered, […]
It’d be a compliment to call the Fling derivative, and it’d have nothing to do with the Long Beach band’s ’60s-flavored folk rock. The band – brothers Dustin and Graham Lovelis, along with Justin Ivey and Justin Roeland – derives its name from an early-’80s SoCal band called the Fling. It was founded by the […]
Citizen Cope, the musical persona of groove-meister Clarence Greenwood, is nearing the end of a long national tour behind his first album in four years, “The RainWater LP.” Tonight’s date is at the Wiltern. … Straight outta mainland China, P.K. 14 and Carsick Cars rock the Viper Room – the latter’s set earlier this week […]
It’s a night to celebrate sibling pop at its best – the Watson Twins’ new album “Talking to You, Talking to Me” came out this week on Vanguard, and the follow-up to 2008’s “Fire Songs,” made with Everest guys J. Soda and Russell Pollard, finds sisters Chandra and Leigh exploring territory that’s a bit less […]
